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Over at The Juggler<\/em>, Sara Adrian links to a video clip<\/a> of a bunch of Scots demonstrating Clifton’s Third Law of Religion: It’s not a real religion unless it has torchlight processions.”<\/p>\n

And remember, ritual precedes myth, not the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at The Juggler, Sara Adrian links to a video clip of a bunch of Scots demonstrating Clifton’s Third Law of Religion: It’s not a real religion unless it has torchlight processions.” And remember, ritual precedes myth, not the other way around.<\/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":[1],"tags":[5,17],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-pQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":446,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=446","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":0},"title":"Updating Zeus","author":"Chas S. 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