you know I noticed something... I was looking on aol and noticed the recap of the late catholics popes funeral ...well they used the word ritual and so why can they use it and nobody thinks nothing is evil and than a wiccan uses the word and its taken as evil?..just a thought..
I have often wondered the same thing Inanna...BB Angel
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You know that is a good question that i would love to find the answer for myself.....If anyone runs across any other information regarding this please let me know......MP'''''White
I actually got into a minor tiff over something like that on a forum for my city. This area is very Christiany, so it's a very good place to go to have some light arguing :)
I brought up a side point from an article I posted. I said that prayer and spells go hand in hand, there are rituals in both paganism and Christianity, etc etc. Basically I was listing all the similarities between words, word usage and definition. It's all interchangeable, really.
I think that topic started when I scared the !@#$ out of a lady who said "I wouldn't want my kids practicing magic" or something like that. My reply was something along the lines of "Then you shouldn't allow them to go to church, or to pray"
Of course, she didn't understand what the #$%^ I was talking about, so I gave her my above examples. Needless to say, there were not comforting thoughts.
I did manage to shut up the local idiot with what I said, though.
Ummm... that was sort of off topic...
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ritual discribe a ritual as follows
rit·u·al Pronunciation (rch-l) n. 1. a. The prescribed order of a religious ceremony. b. The body of ceremonies or rites used in a place of worship. 2. a. The prescribed form of conducting a formal secular ceremony: the ritual of an inauguration. b. The body of ceremonies used by a fraternal organization. 3. A book of rites or ceremonial forms. 4. rituals a. A ceremonial act or a series of such acts. b. The performance of such acts. 5. a. A detailed method of procedure faithfully or regularly followed: My household chores have become a morning ritual. b. A state or condition characterized by the presence of established procedure or routine: "Prison was a ritualreenacted daily, year in, year out. Prisoners came and went; generations came and went; and yet the ritual endured" William H. Hallahan. adj. 1. Associated with or performed according to a rite or ritual: a priest's ritual garments; a ritual sacrifice. 2. Being part of an established routine: a ritual glass of milk before bed.
So when next asked or condemed for your practice qoute them the diffenition above
Rev Dave
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