{"id":735,"date":"2006-10-11T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2006-10-11T04:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T04:36:00","slug":"can-you-adopt-a-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Can you adopt a tradition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just contemporary Pagans who are vexed by that problem. Journalist Ron Dreher of the Crunchy Con[servative] blog tries to respond to a political conservative&#8217;s criticism, the critic being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconservativevoice.com\/category\/235.html\">columnist Maggie Gallagher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/crunchycon\/2006\/10\/tradition-tradition.html\">And then his commenters arrive in flocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the argument goes around and around, sounding very much like Wiccans and reconstructionist Pagans arguing, only with different religious language.<\/p>\n<p>And then a real Pagan does arrive in the comments. Someone tries to refute him by quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G.K._Chesterton\">G.K. Chesterton<\/a>, as though the definition of &#8220;pagan&#8221; had not matured over the last hundred years. Is that the best they can do?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a sort of philosophical\/literary paganism was in vogue in Chesterton&#8217;s time&#8211;the next issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxpub.com\/journals\/main.asp?jref=51\"><em>The Pomegranate<\/em><\/a> will have an excellent article on that era. But it is not exactly what we are talking about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just contemporary Pagans who are vexed by that problem. Journalist Ron Dreher of the Crunchy Con[servative] blog tries to respond to a political conservative&#8217;s criticism, the critic being columnist Maggie Gallagher. And then his commenters arrive in flocks. And the argument goes around and around, sounding very much like Wiccans and reconstructionist Pagans [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-bR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8262,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8262","url_meta":{"origin":735,"position":0},"title":"Call for Papers: Family, Home, and Ways of Life: Living Paganisms in a Globalized World","author":"Chas S. 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