ReverendEtienndepyro

"if you are looking for recognation like the more fundemental denomanations claim to have,you'll be spinning in circles trying to achive that,and in the process killing a movement that was based on getting away from those things.as has been said,a national council for the purpose of information and learning is good.no matter what type of wicca you choose to follow,there should be information available;and by someone who knows what their talking about." While I agree that education should be paramount, and hate to nay say... but this has been tried before... most pagans on the whole.. of the nature relegions anyway, would object.. not with the fact that we should have a more public and open standing in the world today as in fact I agree withthat, but merely that just as in the Christian relgions there is no way to properly gather all forms of faith under an umbrella and expect things to be agreed upon... many, many, schools are forming and have been forming in fact for decades now.. that teach various differant pathways... all call to their individual groups and all stress that their way is the right way. I think instead maybe a school should be set up that teaches with an ecclectic standpoint and not a rigid fixed one so that aspects from many differant pathways can be properly addressed and reveiwed.. leaving the final choice of what to use or to disregard up to the student/practioner in question.Deity calls to us all in many differant ways..Do I think that a punlic, offical recognized voice would be beneficial in things such as military rights etc??? by all means.. In my time in the service mine where the only dogtags that read .."other" they did ask who was pagan,witches,satanist etc, which I give them credit for.. but we still do not have the rights that are entertained by other faiths in the service.for instance.. you are not allowed any form of reading material in the miliatray (In training anyway) except military reading,the Koran, or the Bible.When I asked and received permisiion to bring literature for my own use back to base and received permission.My literature(In this Case Raymond Bucklands Big Blue and a book of mirrors(I was studying language scripts) was immeidiatly confiscated and NOT returned.. my Pentacle was also ripped from my throat while crosses where allowed.if a council could help such things that'd be wonderful.. but as to telling pagans what to beleive and how to practice.. such andendeavor is doomed from the outset.. Sorry but tis true.just look at the Papacy.. its and offical voice and disregarded by Most of Christianity..*Shrug* like I said its a wonderful idea and has merits but as a whole its raher unweildly. Brightest Blessings, Rev Etienn De Pyro