Word: paganization
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Harvey, a San Francisco bohemian, started the tradition 14 years ago as a punk-pagan celebration on a San Francisco beach and moved it to a lifeless desert northeast of Reno in 1990 when the S.F. beach patrol kicked him off. Since then, he has nurtured his festival into a lengthy ritual that this Labor Day attracted 30,000 campers to its mix of art, raves, nudity and spirituality. In the process, much has changed. Harvey has driven out some of his original anarchy-loving partners, instituted streets and rules (no guns), and now controls much of the art through...
...blurts out, "Do you believe in God? I'm a member of this great church down the street. Do you read the Bible? I'd love for you to-" I fended him off just like I do those annoying AT&T saleswomen, but I'm disturbed. Do I look pagan...
...York Times complained that John Paul's statement gave insufficient attention to church wrongs against women and homosexuals. An organization of pagans and Wiccans said the Pope should have included them in the apology: "Women accused of being 'Witches,' for instance--the herbalists and wisewomen of still Pagan villages throughout Europe--were hunted out, hideously tortured, and burned at the stake in uncountable numbers...
...while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...
They're similar to the pamphlets you see littered around Harvard Square sometimes. But on Halloween night, with all its faux-pagan trappings, and in this place, there's some extra urgency to the mission of the few scattered street preachers pitching salvation...