Yes, I may anger many people with what I say in this thread, but this is not a battle specific to this forum; so, please do not take it personally.
There is a resurgence of interest in Paganism in the world. For example, the Pagan community in Greece is growing daily as the religion was un-banned in 2017 (I still can't post links, sorry).
These obviously are people trying to revive an ancient form of worship/devotion.
On the other extreme, there is a new religious movement being formed called technopaganism (see Wikipedia).
We need to discuss whether these two are compatible. If they are not compatible, there will be a war (again not confined to this forum)
over who can actually label themselves as Pagan/pagan.
The convention of UPPERCASE/lowercase that you have come up with in this website is not sufficient as it does not cover the spoken/verbal word nor does it account for the fact that most languages don't even have case - nor does it take any etymological considerations into account (i.e. the word actually has a meaning in Latin).
Also, I'm not going to be fast at responding. This thread may take a couple of weeks to complete.
There is a resurgence of interest in Paganism in the world. For example, the Pagan community in Greece is growing daily as the religion was un-banned in 2017 (I still can't post links, sorry).
These obviously are people trying to revive an ancient form of worship/devotion.
On the other extreme, there is a new religious movement being formed called technopaganism (see Wikipedia).
We need to discuss whether these two are compatible. If they are not compatible, there will be a war (again not confined to this forum)
over who can actually label themselves as Pagan/pagan.
The convention of UPPERCASE/lowercase that you have come up with in this website is not sufficient as it does not cover the spoken/verbal word nor does it account for the fact that most languages don't even have case - nor does it take any etymological considerations into account (i.e. the word actually has a meaning in Latin).
Also, I'm not going to be fast at responding. This thread may take a couple of weeks to complete.
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