Chas S. Clifton
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❝The problem with making morality a part of religion is that some priests forget that they are measured by the lives around them. They think that their calling places them beyond "man's law.❞Read More...
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On that Pagan community thing
Sunday, 05Sep2010 Filed in: modern adult pagans
Archaeoastronomy
Wednesday, 02May2007 Filed in: practicals
The Gods Do Not Vote
Monday, 05Nov2018 Filed in: modern adult pagans
“If you are really a polytheist, then you must accept that the gods do not vote.”
Read More...Religion is dangerous
Thursday, 22Mar2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ simple
“Religion is dangerous. The people in power have always realized this. Either they must tame it — make it all about how King Zork enjoys the Will of Heaven —or keep a heavy, cast iron lid on it.
The trouble with religious people is that they are not always loyal enough — to the king, to the government, to the Party, to the corporation.”— Chas S. Clifton, Does Anyone “Own” the Vikings? The NY Times Wants to Know
Back to basics
Tuesday, 05Dec2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Back to the basics' works if you chose the right basics. (We could debate that.)”— Chas Clifton, Rhetoric: It’s “Classical” Because It Works
Polyester, Protestant Pagans?
Saturday, 14Oct2006 Filed in: tellus
❝Polytheistic view of life❞
Saturday, 29Apr2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“That is the polytheistic view of life. The world is a mess. The world is beautiful. The gods are eternal (or as good as). The gods work at cross-purposes, and sometimes humans are caught between them.
"If you try to change the world in the name of some grand, sweeping, utopian vision, you will just make it worse. The most you can do is to give Achilles and Kevin Houston a good cause.”— Chas. S. Clifton, On the Necessity of the Iliad for Modern Polytheism
Speaking of athamés
Wednesday, 26Apr2017 Filed in: modern adult pagans⭐︎ rite & ritual
Chas S. Clifton, one of my favorite pagan writers, has a piece called The Story of Three Athames.
So I'm pointing it out.
You should go read it now.
So I'm pointing it out.
You should go read it now.
Signs
Monday, 27Feb2017 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ modern adult pagans
Stranger
Monday, 05Dec2016 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“When we look at the Tarot for what it apparently is, we look into a mental map of the time when the Italian and French Middle Ages were poised on the cusp of the Renaissance - a time that is actually stranger and intellectually more foreign to us than we tend to think.”— Chas S. Clifton from "The Unexamined Tarot," Gnosis № 18, Winter 1991
Taproot: Taboo
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Read More...Synchronicity, coincidence, perception, and perspective
Sunday, 28Jan2007 Filed in: beliefs
Experience & Art
Monday, 02Feb2015 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Paganism should spread through experience and art, not theology. The theology comes later, if it comes.”Read More...— Chas Clifton, Looking at Your Polis as a Pagan
Homework assignment
Thursday, 29Jan2015 Filed in: modern adult pagans⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
“Morality ought to be filed under Philosophy, not Religion.”Read More...— Chas S. Clifton, How to Ruin the Mysteries, or Religion is not Moral
