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June 21st, 2011
11:38 AM ET
Partying at Stonehenge for the summer solstice:Tuesday is the start of the summer solstice and at Stonehenge the party rages. Watch CNN Newsroom weekdays 9am to 3pm ET and weekends. For the latest from the CNN Newsroom click here.
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You speak of the evils done which you feel the Cross represents, how do you then address individual groups of Native Americans (trail of tears), J. Americans (WW2 interment camps), and African Americans (Port Chicago)..... and those were just off the top of my head.
It will always be someone offended at some symbol or another. The point of even the American flag is viewed by a few Americans as something offensive.
TCS, you obviously need to pick up a book. It is the Christian holidays that have taken over the Pagan holidays... Atheists don't believe in god(s) so they don't have anything to do with your "watered down" holidays.
YAY!!!!! I was wondering if cnn's Belief Blog was going to cover the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. 🙂
Are they dropping fry and xtc at this party, that's what I'd do to communicate with dieties.
Dropping acid or getting lost in the k-hole is the whole point of neo-Paganism. It's kind of like Glastonbury withoout the great bands.
I was born in Sweden & for easter we also celebrated an old pagan tradition to dress up as witches & dance on Blakulla, the witches hill, by the light of the moon. Modern, adult revellers generally have music & dancing! It's usually the kids who dress up & go door to door asking for candy. Very similar to Halloween, or All Hallowed Eve, before people start in with the "that's to be expected from an agnostic country"! I was introduced to God & accepted Jesus as my personal savior, in Sweden, so we do have religion ,too.. I just find it curious that christians condemn pagans for stealing their holidays, when the opposite is actually true!
The beliefs of the folks partying at StoneHedge are every bit as valid as those who believe in the more mainstream cults.
Mocking Wicca and Paganism?
Mocking spells, curses, covens, black magic, witches, voodooing dolls, hoodooing the results, shadow books, maypoles,
god(s) and goddess(es), Gerald Gardiner et al??
Never!!!!
Personally, I see Stonehenge as being a sacred place. I'm really not keen on people partying there. Worshiping the Gods there, fine but no partying.
I take my belief in the Goddess and God quite seriously but have encountered too many who like pretending to be Pagan so they can party or whatever else they want to do. Personally, I'd rather they simply be honest and do as they want, without harming themselves or others, and have a great time. Don't hide behind religion It's shallow and cheap.
Besides, the place IS ancient and doesn't need people walking all over the place, bothering things.
The Summer Solstice is one of the few big pagan celebrations that Christianity has yet to try and usurp for it's own purposes.
Winter Soltice – Christmas
Spring Equinox – Easter
In the middle ages, they tried supplanting the autumnal equinox with Michaelmas (a celebration of the archangel Michael).
There are very few Christian celebrations that don't get watered down into stupid crap that is being led by atheists.
@TCS All Christians celebrations except Good Friday have pagan origins.
I guess you never heard of St. John's eve. Not very big in the States, but used to be a big celebration in the British Isles up to the 1940s. Bonfires all over the place. Also, as it came only about 7 weeks after Beltain (May eve), all the ladies who wandered off in the bushes used to find themselves getting married that day for some unfathomable reason ; )
Which bits are being perverted by atheists?
Egg decorating for easter? Pagan ritual which significantly pre-dates christianity.
Christmas trees are also pagan in origin and were originally considered heretical by christians.
Neo-Pagans are kinda silly. But I'll take silly over grim and nasty any day.
Some admittedly are silly. Others are very serious in their faith and their scholarship of not just the history of their faith, but history in general.
I've never been a love and light new-agey sort of Pagan. I'm much more a practical, throw back to my ancestors sort of Pagan. I have Celtic and Native American family roots, an evidence of traditional religion in both traditions in my tree.