http://www.susyflory.com/2007/women-pagan-or-christian-who-changed-the-world/ Author, speaker, journalist: adventurer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.susyflory.com/2007/women-pagan-or-christian-who-changed-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Grian Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:13:25 +0000 http://www.susyflory.com/2007/women-pagan-or-christian-who-changed-the-world/#comment-84 Susy, I can appreciate your attempt here, but there is something you missed. People were not "allowed" to be Pagan - especially women. After the witch trials and various other persecutions in Europe (commonly known as the Inquisition)people were too afraid to search outside the common religion of Christianity. I know people of all faiths have been persecuted at one point, but did you know entire towns were wiped of women because they were suspected of Witchcraft? Even the little girls. They were slaughtered by people who considered themselves Christians. And of course there was probably no Witchcraft going on. They were victims of their own superstitions (and greed) and they killed their fellow Christians. I am not saying Christians are bad - only that there has been plenty of bad stuff contributed to our society by so-called Christians. The same could most likely be said of people of any faith. You have to remember that the Goddess movement is something that has been re-born after a very long period of time of only "official state religion". I am sure (now that history is being recorded) that there will no doubt be a Goddess woman who makes significant contributions to society in the near future. Susy, I can appreciate your attempt here, but there is something you missed.
People were not “allowed” to be Pagan – especially women.
After the witch trials and various other persecutions in Europe (commonly known as the Inquisition)people were too afraid to search outside the common religion of Christianity.
I know people of all faiths have been persecuted at one point, but did you know entire towns were wiped of women because they were suspected of Witchcraft? Even the little girls. They were slaughtered by people who considered themselves Christians. And of course there was probably no Witchcraft going on. They were victims of their own superstitions (and greed) and they killed their fellow Christians.
I am not saying Christians are bad – only that there has been plenty of bad stuff contributed to our society by so-called Christians. The same could most likely be said of people of any faith.
You have to remember that the Goddess movement is something that has been re-born after a very long period of time of only “official state religion”. I am sure (now that history is being recorded) that there will no doubt be a Goddess woman who makes significant contributions to society in the near future.

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