A common approach to the question of "What Is Paganism?" is to try to draw boundaries around the outside of the group instead of looking for the elements in the middle, the things that we hold in common, which has been my strategy in answering that question. I appreciate your similar thinking here
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Thank you so much for responding to this. I get where you're coming from about not automatically including African Diaspora and Lodges. I think the main reason that I did include them is because past experience at ostensibly Pagan identified events brought them out. So, where they feel they are a part of the Pagan community, and when the Pagan community embraces them I feel it's appropriate to say that they are of a "Pagan Sensibility," without explicitly saying they are Pagan. Though that's not how I worded it above
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Christine, your recommendations are on target. Another problem that may drive people away is the lack of common sense in the community. Too many of us are willing to swallow anything idiotic that comes down the pike, whether it is David Icke's lizard people conspiracy theories or the latest rant against vaccination. We need to be more critical and rigorous thinkers so we can shed our reputation as flakes.
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