FLUFFY BUNNIES

[icymist]

Talk to twenty different pagans and ask them what their religion (or path in pagan speak) is and you will get 20 different answers. How many of them actually make any sense depends on who you ask. In fact, for most (what I call fluffy bunnies) the only thing they can tell you about being a pagan is that they are not Christian.
So, why do the fluffy bunnies like paganism and hate Christianity? They don't know really. They did not like Christianity because it was their parent's religion, but they do not want to be thought of as just a bunch of kids trying to piss off their parents. They think that Christianity is too judgmental and labeling, but they are not "into" judging people, they leave that to Christians. So what are they "into"?
Well, let's see, they are "into" nature because nature is pure and full of magick, just as these fluffy bunnies are full of something and it might be fair to say that it is natural. However, Nature is harsh, it is cruel, it does not care about the wants or even the needs of any individual creature. The only real rules of Nature is eat or be eaten. The natural order will be maintained at any costs, including the cost of a certain species of hairless ape that has done its best to bash the living spirit out of nature.
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[rhiannon55]

1. This is why I'm in danger of losing my (pagan) religion

Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that there are more fluffy bunny pagans than any other kind. Too many pagans continue to spend the bulk of their time partying, experimenting with 'alternative relationships' and working magic for personal/selfish goals, while the Bush administration destroys the very Earth that they say they revere. I went to two Pagan festivals this summer and the subject of politics hardly ever even came up.

After almost 20 years as a Wiccan/Pagan, I am so disillusioned.

[roguevalley]

2. This is very true. They are everywhere. Sort of similar to people

who are Christians, et al and can't tell you why.

[laheina]

6. I was reading Christine Wicker's book

"Not in Kansas Anymore," and she made the comment that the Fluffy Bunnies are the Jehovah's Witnesses of the pagan community--so certain that they're right.

Your post brought that to mind.

cheers. :)

[Chovexani]

3. This is why I'm solitary

And have been for nearly seven years. The signal to noise ratio in the greater community is just awful now, to the point where I almost long for the days when I first started in the Craft and got into arguments with people who said I couldn't be Wiccan and work with the Greek Pantheon! Now no one has an opinion on anything, all they do is hug crystals and whine about being ZOMG OPPRESSED all day.

Part of me wants to blame the Silver Ravenwolfs of the community for dumbing down the Craft in general.

[icymist]

4. I usually annoy and/or scare them.

I do things like put rose hips in a jar marked 'scabs' and sit it out in my kitchen. Or I just send 'em cards like this one:

Works for me.

[Mist]

5. In Asheville, some called them the "white light bunny huggers" -- yeah,

I know what you mean. I'm a solitary too, but mainly because I'm not much of a joiner. I don't think I could commit to a year or two of working with the same people.