1. BV, why delete all your posts instead of moving them into a new thread? I had no intention of censoring anyone. It's stuff you wouldn't have posted unless you thought it important, so it ought to be somewhere.
Not to worry, the web cache will still have your carefully collected, arranged and emphasised material. So you can restore all of it from cache into a new location. If you can't for some reason, I guess I'll have to consider doing the same for you. ('Consider' being the operative word. But have saved it from the web cache now.)
The first para of your post contains statements that require a longer response. Will answer your post in the Misc thread when I get round to it. But not today. I do want to get to it though, since I have example material that can illustrate what I mean, and I've already written up part of the response. And because it's on various matters of some serious concern to me.
Unfortunately, the write-up is very long already. And will probably become much longer still. Oh the dread.
2. Romani, the fact that you object to my request to not cover "neopaganism" in this thread implies that you consider what you brought up to be "neopaganism" rather than actual traditional religion. In which case: yes, IMO anything that answers to "neopaganism" (or even calls itself "paganism") doesn't belong in this thread. But you can always start another.
Alternatively, you can ask admin to intervene and tell me to stop bullying other members over this thread. I have no actual powers as you know. They merely indulge me.
Not to worry, the web cache will still have your carefully collected, arranged and emphasised material. So you can restore all of it from cache into a new location. If you can't for some reason, I guess I'll have to consider doing the same for you. ('Consider' being the operative word. But have saved it from the web cache now.)
The first para of your post contains statements that require a longer response. Will answer your post in the Misc thread when I get round to it. But not today. I do want to get to it though, since I have example material that can illustrate what I mean, and I've already written up part of the response. And because it's on various matters of some serious concern to me.
Unfortunately, the write-up is very long already. And will probably become much longer still. Oh the dread.
2. Romani, the fact that you object to my request to not cover "neopaganism" in this thread implies that you consider what you brought up to be "neopaganism" rather than actual traditional religion. In which case: yes, IMO anything that answers to "neopaganism" (or even calls itself "paganism") doesn't belong in this thread. But you can always start another.
Alternatively, you can ask admin to intervene and tell me to stop bullying other members over this thread. I have no actual powers as you know. They merely indulge me.