Talk:Persecution of Pagans

Needs extreme cleanup
Article as it stands today is terrible - let's make Wikipedia-worthy or delete. -- 201.50.123.251 22:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Kind Words!Hypnosadist 13:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Worthwhile article, let's work together to improve. Congratulations to Hyp for his work on it. Itsmejudith 19:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge?
"It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Persecution of Heathens." -- 201.50.123.251 22:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes these should be merged, under the Persecution of Pagans page as Heathen is POV and Christian centric.Hypnosadist 13:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Agree, makes sense - and we can clean up the Heathens article with the merge.. Mceder 14:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

That's foolish. "Pagan" is as derived from Christianity as "heathen" is. Furthermore, this "article" is inherently POV, lacks proof, and feigns knowing the mentality of those who act and those acted against. The virtue of a merger is that only one article will need to be on AfD. Geogre 14:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Geogre many (millions) of people self identify as Pagans, and yes sources are required to say the reason for acting is the religion of the victim. This is very much the case in the witch trials/inquisition and the Rev. Magdalen (a.k.a. Rachel Bevilacqua) case.Hypnosadist 17:13, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No, certainly not. Pagans is a much wider term than Heathens, and the presecution of Heathens is a story in itself. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 22:27, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Kim what does sider mean?Hypnosadist 13:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Wider, typo.-- Kim van der Linde at venus 14:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes i agree Pagan is a much wider term than heathen, and in time with enough info could make a good article but that is a long way off. If we merge the two articles it will make one good article that should be safe from deletionists such as george. As we continue to make this article better and more detailed there should come a time when a split to Heathen fork page would be warrented.Hypnosadist 14:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Utterly disagree since there is very little in common with the two religions. // Liftarn

Buddhism
Is it true that Buddhism has extirpated native religions? In China and Vietnam Buddhism coexists very happily with Taoism and Confucianism. In Japan it coexists with Shintoism. I believe there is also Shamanism and belief in witchcraft in much of South East Asia, as well as many syncretic religions. Itsmejudith 19:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)