answersfromvanaheim:
Here’s a nice thing I wish more Pagans, polytheists, Heathens, witches, and the like would try but never will because people are shitty:
Don’t say that you’re for diversity if you aren’t actually prepared to accept diverse viewpoints.
- I know this sounds like an easy thing to do, but it’s not because it involves things like:
- certain polytheists accepting that ancestor worship is not as important to some polytheistic traditions as you think it is
- witches accepting witches who curse
- hardcore reconstructionist Heathens accepting that not everyone wants to be as hardcore as they are (I know this is especially hard) or even just accepting that not everyone wants to be a reconstructionist
- people not believing your deities exist, or seeing the deities differently than you do
- people not having the resources to do a spell or ritual exactly the way you were taught, disabled people needing accommodations or just straight up not being able to do “traditional” religious things
Does this mean you need to accept racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, classist, and other bigoted rhetoric? Of course not, but it would really help if some of you moved past giving this idea of diversity lip service,]
Honestly I could go on but I think you get it.