What
is Pagan Pride Day?
Maine
Pagan Pride Day is just one part of a national event that
features hundreds of pride events all over the world, joining
thousands of pagans together to celebrate diversity within
spirituality and bringing awareness about the peaceful paths
of paganism to all who want to participate.
At
Maine Pagan Pride Day, you will be able to experience a lot
of different aspects of various Pagan traditions and beliefs.
It will be a day of fun and learning.
Pagan
Pride Project
Maine
Pagan Pride Day is sponsored by the Pagan
Pride Project.
National
Pagan Pride Mission Statement
We
try to keep our purpose balanced through the inspirations
of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth:
Air: Education
We're never going to be able to practice our spiritual paths openly if we
don't give the public accurate information about what we do and do
not do.
Fire: Activism
People aren't necessarily going to go out of their way to find out what Pagans
really do. We have to have the courage to act on our convictions and do what
we need to do.
Water: Charity
We know that what we do returns to us. We need to demonstrate this by offering
compassion to our communities where it is needed. When we share our own abundance,
we show that we trust the Gods to share abundance with us in return.
Earth: Community
We're never going to be able to practice openly if we don't know anyone else
in our local Pagan communities. We need to weave networking webs in our cities,
in our towns, in our rural areas. We need these webs to support one another.
That support will also show those who would restrict our practice that we
are not just a few isolated wackos, but are a growing congregation of people
who adhere to a faith that, while different, is as valid as their own.
Pagan
Pride Project defines "Pagan" as: someone who self-identifies
as a Pagan, and whose spiritual or religious practice or belief
fits into one or more of the following categories:
Honoring,
revering, or worshipping a Deity or Deities found in pre-Christian,
classical, aboriginal, or tribal mythology; and/or
Practicing
religion or spirituality based upon shamanism, shamanic,
or magickal practices; and/or
Creating new religion based on past Pagan religions and/or futuristic views
of society, community, and/or ecology; and/or
Focusing religious or spiritual attention primarily on the Divine Feminine.
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