• @[email protected]
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    -42 months ago

    Evangelism doesn’t only apply to those who push the story of that West Bank-ian born guy with the Mexican name… but I did wonder whether to wordswap before posting.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      32 months ago

      The Animist Evangelical showing up with an encyclopedia of deities?

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        -12 months ago

        Thanks. Now I’m having an existential crisis about whether an Encyclopaedia of Deities would be filed under Reference or Fiction. Animism is something I don’t know about; but each to their own I suppose. I remember one girl saying it was tantamount to paganism but the reception she got suggested the room didn’t agree with her. I can’t really comment.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          22 months ago

          I remember one girl saying it was tantamount to paganism but the reception she got suggested the room didn’t agree with her.

          “Paganism” carries a lot of political and theological baggage, particularly among Christian Evangelicals, such that calling something “pagan” can be seen as derogatory rather than explanatory.

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            02 months ago

            I was not aware of that. Things are different where I live. Pagan has no real negative connotation here. In the land of Druids and the Eisteddfod anyone claiming paganism would be ok; plus Christian Evangelicalism ain’t really a thing over here.