Pagans honor a crone

Ok, so I read this article, and after I finished laughing (you read it all the way through and you'll know what I laughed at), I decided to email the writer. Here is the email I sent to her:

Ms. Gregory,

I'm emailing you to comment on a statement you made in your article
"Pagans honor a crone." While seem to have done considerable research,
and most of it is accurate, there are a few things that are just
slightly off.

"the religions diverge sharply in that Christians believe in one God
and Pagans in many"

While it's true that there are many Pagans, many being Wiccan, that
do believe in multiple gods, this is not true of Pagans in general. I
myself am a Pagan, for almost 10 years now, and my husband has been a
Pagan for almost 25 years, and we are both monotheists. We don't
believe in God the way that many Christians do, but we still believe
in one Universal Source, if you will. To say that Pagans believe in
multiple gods makes it seem as though all of us do, and that is simply
not so.

"some Wiccan groups use a knife instead of a wand to draw a circle,
but the Bloomfield group shies away from that, mainly because of how
it looks to outsiders.The tradition comes from a time when everyone
would have carried a knife, a more pastoral society."

The tradition didn't come about just because everyone carried a
knife. A knife was basically mankinds first created tool. It was the
first thing that man made that gave him some kind of control over his
environment. He was able to hunt with it, kill his prey, cut up his
food, etc. In this respect, the athame, or knife, came to magically
represent an individual's control over the elements, and one thing
many witches work with are the elements.

All in all, the article was pretty good. I just wanted to clear up
a few of the seeming misconceptions.
--
Rev. Heidi L. Andrews
VP & Asst. Senior Pastor
Church of Eclectic Pagan Fellowship