[ SECRET POST #2456 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2456 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[China, Illinois]


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[The Mortal Instruments]


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[Community]


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[Hunter x Hunter, Senritsu/Melody]

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[Hetalia]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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[Ghostbusters]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Malik Ishtar from Yugi-oh Duel Monsters]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
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Comments

Re: Any neopagans here?

[chardmonster]

What the hell is a "real religion?"

Re: Any neopagans here?

[fleshisyummy]

Well, what's the difference between a religion and a cult?

When I've studied religion in school, I've learned about Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. I never learned about Wiccan, Satanism, and Scientology.

At the end of the day, some belief systems are considered more legitimate than others.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[chardmonster]

That's true, but it doesn't really answer the question. Unless your answer is "a real religion is what other people consider a real religion."

Culturally valid, but doesn't make the yelling at Stella come off very well.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[fleshisyummy]

C'mon, you have to realize by this point you sound kind of ridiculous. Honestly, if you were part of a major religion, you would sound even sillier. I honestly thought you were trolling when you said, "got any plans for winter solstice this year?" It would be the equivalent of a Christian saying, "You can't really be a Christian unless you've read the Bible front to back and go to church every Sunday." The fact of the matter is most Christians nowadays can not say they've done these things.

Also, people of the same religion can often have very different beliefs and practices. There are different branches of Islam and different denominations of Christianity, for example. I don't understand why you think there's ~one right~ way for your religion.

But if you want to whine about kids on tumblr being interested in your 1950s-created cult and insult me for liking shitty anime, you go right on ahead.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[fleshisyummy]

Yeah, I don't think there's any point arguing with you because we clearly have very different opinions: you have a problem with very casual practitioners of a religion, whereas I do not.

As for whether or not something is a cult is pretty much a matter of opinion. If you look up cult in the dictionary, Wiccan fits the definition pretty well.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

If you're going to start dividing people's beliefs into "legitimate religions" and "not-legitimate religions," you had damn well better be able to produce a god. Otherwise, your thousands-of-years-old religions are no more legitimate than stella's sixty-year-old religion.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[fleshisyummy]

I really don't care whether or not a god exists.

I was just pointing out that the world regards some religions as more "legitimate" than others. The major world religions didn't start out as "legitimate." For the most part, people considered them weird and heretical. In other words, they all had to earn their cred.

The fact of the matter is that most people in the world don't really consider Wicca to be a "legit" religion. I just found it interesting that she's whining about people becoming interested in her small and not very well-regarded religion.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

Neither age nor popularity is a meaningful determiner of whether a religion is "cockamamie bullshit" or "a legitimate and respectable belief system." Those are, in fact, terrible measures of whether one should pay attention or give credence to a given idea.