Nuts, yes. (See our "Moon Meetings" paper.) But pagan feminist witchcraft might seem more nuts than more traditional spiritual beliefs which include bizarre rituals because we have much more familiarity with the latter, particularly those associated with the Abrahamic religions.https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1052986438357139456 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I see this criticism as disingenuous Christian-based pagan panic. 1/
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Replying to @keikoinboston @HPluckrose
In spite of our supposed separation of church and state, it is totally normal for politicians to invite faith groups to their events, to hold meetings w/ faith leaders, and to pray at houses of worship in their capacity as politicians or w/ faith leaders on government property.2/
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Replying to @keikoinboston @HPluckrose
I doubt that when Republican politicians invite fringe Christian groups that the right-leaning media reports on it in the manner that they are reporting on Sinema. 3/
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Replying to @keikoinboston
I'm not having a go at Andy and I agree it's nuts. I'm just pointing out that it's not objectively more nuts than Christian singing, praying, communion etc or Muslim bowing at the floor with your bum in the air or any number of Jewish rituals including bowing repeatedly at walls.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @keikoinboston
Humans are nuts. I include myself among them as I have a number of rituals of my own although none of them are religious and when I had OCD, they got diagnosed as nuts.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Rituals can certainly be taken to an extreme but given their prevalence, is it fair to say that all rituals make humans nuts? It seems to just be human nature of different flavors.
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Yes. That's what I meant. As we define what is nuts as what diverges from normal human behaviour, we are not nuts. But if we try to look at ourselves objectively, I think we can see some thoroughly irrational behaviour in our species.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @keikoinboston
Ritual has purpose for the group to which the ritual belongs. It's one of the methods of defining and reinforcing group membership, though it can also serve as a form of advertising through demonstration.
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