Re: Do you think its right to charge to teach about neopaganism?
From my understanding, throughout history all tribal cultures had some system of payment, pre christian or otherwise, and expected payment for services. I'm relatively certain that prehistoric peoples didn't originally have a market system like we do but this was mostly because they didn't partake in trade with other tribes until later. Of course this intensified with the catholic church to a rather abusive degree but as i said even in the case of the gallic druids, they didn't receive monetary payment but were exempt from taxes and drafts which i'd say is pretty damn good payment. If jamesbyrne has some source that sites information contrary to that i'm honestly really curious.
My argument personally is just that since thats not most peoples' career paths and doesn't have to be in today's culture it's not necessary to pay for spiritual education or especially not membership within a certain religion but it mostly varies by circumstance. I kind of feel spirituality is the sort of thing that should be shared out of wanting to share it but i can see wanting to share it at a price. I just might be a bit wary of some anonymous intenet stranger telling me I can become a proper Wiccan or something for a price.
From my understanding, throughout history all tribal cultures had some system of payment, pre christian or otherwise, and expected payment for services. I'm relatively certain that prehistoric peoples didn't originally have a market system like we do but this was mostly because they didn't partake in trade with other tribes until later. Of course this intensified with the catholic church to a rather abusive degree but as i said even in the case of the gallic druids, they didn't receive monetary payment but were exempt from taxes and drafts which i'd say is pretty damn good payment. If jamesbyrne has some source that sites information contrary to that i'm honestly really curious.
My argument personally is just that since thats not most peoples' career paths and doesn't have to be in today's culture it's not necessary to pay for spiritual education or especially not membership within a certain religion but it mostly varies by circumstance. I kind of feel spirituality is the sort of thing that should be shared out of wanting to share it but i can see wanting to share it at a price. I just might be a bit wary of some anonymous intenet stranger telling me I can become a proper Wiccan or something for a price.
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