Word: pagans
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...those with the stomach for it. How is it that the Jews survived the first Christian millennium? The church, from the moment of its embrace by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, enjoyed immense power and employed it with ruthless efficiency to eliminate dozens of heresies and pagan creeds. Its relationship with Judaism, its spiritual predecessor and the first challenger to its claims for Christ, was especially poisonous. Why, then, were the Jews permitted to live--and be persecuted--another...
...phrase in your article on Larry Harvey's Burning Man festival [LIVING, Sept. 18] hit a nerve: the comment that he moved the "punk-pagan celebration" from San Francisco to a "lifeless" desert northeast of Reno. I just spent four months working with people of the Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe tribes, who are indigenous to the Reno area. For them, the desert brims with life--animal, vegetable and human. How self-centered and arrogant it is for whites to think that a landscape without their culture and accumulated junk in it is lifeless. The puerile horde that invades the desert...
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...
...might get his wish--in a manner he didn't anticipate. In Asheville, Ginger Stivelli, co-founder of the Appalachian Pagan Alliance, is demanding equal time. She has asked a school district for permission to hold a "We Still Work Magic" rally this month to coincide with the autumn equinox. To her glee, the district agreed...
...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...