{"id":1189,"date":"2009-08-12T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2009-08-12T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:18:00","slug":"pagan-content-on-patheos-john-muir-was-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Pagan Content on Patheos: John Muir was Pagan??"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Today’s<\/em> religion blogger, Cathy Lynn Gross, visits the Patheos<\/a> religion web site and discovers (shock!) that it has a Pagan portal with actual Pagan content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article that catches her attention is “John Muir was a Pagan<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I admire John Muir<\/a>, but I do not see him as a capital-P Pagan, follower of a non-monotheistic religion. He might well have been a small-P “pagan”– a non-Christian, a pantheist.<\/p>\n

Get over to Patheos<\/a> and stir things up before they shut it down. I wonder if starting a religion portal in the midst of a recession <\/a>was a good business plan — were the Brunnicks counting on people to turn to religion when their money ran out? They laid off the Pagan gateway manager, a graduate student in religion, a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA Today’s religion blogger, Cathy Lynn Gross, visits the Patheos religion web site and discovers (shock!) that it has a Pagan portal with actual Pagan content. The article that catches her attention is “John Muir was a Pagan.” I admire John Muir, but I do not see him as a capital-P Pagan, follower of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,5],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1154,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1154","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":0},"title":"Patheos’ Pagan Gateway","author":"Chas S. 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