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I wonder whether many people’s interest in having a Pagan clergy is because we have yet to really separate church from state adequately in this country.  Other than legal issues caused by not adequately separating church and state, can any one name an issue where having a clergy would enable us to do something we…

This is my second reason for being very skeptical about the interest on so many pagans’ part in our having a “clergy.” Words have enormous power.  We do not even need to go into a discussion of magick to see that this is true.  Here is my favorite mundane example.

A fracas is brewing  in Good Hope, Alabama over the issue of God and sex.  Seems some Christians are upset with the effort by other Christians to publicly discuss God and Great sex.   I’m glad I am a bystander on that blow-up. But it brings to mind the interesting contrast between Christianity’s seemingly eternal…

This is my first post on the issue of why I am very skeptical of having a Pagan clergy.  I will come at it on an angle. To have an official ‘clergy’ is to have some organizational structure with authority to say who is clergy and who is not.  But organizations tend to become corrupt,…
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