Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...certain type of students who lived in non-randomized houses. Who other than the decadent aesthetes in Adams would indulge in the renowned debauchery of the Masquerade? Who but the social libertines in Dunster--the same folks who sustained a pornography appreciation society--would support a deliciously Pagan feast? Now, supposedly, the artists and Pagan sympathizers are gone, or at least as common as every other type of student, but the traditions remain...
...symbolism makes it fairly easy to demonize them. Besides calling themselves witches, they often prefer to conduct their rituals naked (Fort Hood has forbidden them to do so), use 9-in. daggers called athames in their ceremonies, cast magic spells, and worship, among others, "the horned god" found in pagan traditions. Wiccans are also pacifists, but believe that your actions come back to you threefold and are prepared to accept the consequences of what they do as soldiers. That the Army would be so progressive in its acceptance makes perfect sense to the Wiccans. "The Army has always been ahead...
...lists some recent hot sellers, proof of the customers' diversity: Horns and Crescent, a Cambridge-based pagan magazine; Tibetan jewelry and books; and Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch's New York Times bestseller...
...lists some recent hot sellers, proof of the customers' diversity: Horns and Crescent, a Cambridge-based pagan magazine; Tibetan jewelry and books; and Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch's New York Times bestseller...