No exams on Wiccan, Pagan holidays at University of Missouri?

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I think it’s odd that Wiccans compare themselves to ancient pagans, since a lot of Wiccan ritual and belief is nothing like any ancient religion.
 
The Wiccans are largely self diluded post adolescents, and those who make money off of their dilusions. It is a modern neo-pagan cult that developed in the 1960’s in West Coast US hippie comunes as to excuse their abhorance of contemporary Judeo-Christian morals.
 
Students at University of Missouri don’t need to cram for exams that fall on Wiccan and Pagan holidays, now that the school has put them on par with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Hanukah.
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There are two false claims made in the very first sentence of the news article. Whether students will be tested on a holiday is at the discretion of the professor. And the school is closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas (both national holidays) so the other religious holidays are not on par with them.
 
It’s odd that this is coming up now as the Holidays where entered two years ago I think and many other colleges recognize Pagan Holidays. Reading this and seeing the Fox News videos confuses me. Most Pagans celebrate eight holidays, But I’ve seen Fox News claim we have 20, 10 and that our Holidays take up 20$ of the Handbooks listing.

Things will get interesting I think as more and more Pagans start becoming vocal about who and what we are. Both of my own sisters for example came out and stated they are Wiccan much to my own shock and I admit joy.
 
I think it’s great that the school is being inclusive in this way!

Although, having seen the vidoes of Fox’s television reports on it, I found them incredibily demeaning and full of inaccurasies.
 
But students have to practically beg to be excused for Good Friday services…go figure. And yes, I had to do this each year when I was going to school.
 
George_Stegmeir said:
The Wiccans are largely self diluded post adolescents, and those who make money off of their dilusions. It is a modern neo-pagan cult that developed in the 1960’s in West Coast US hippie comunes as to excuse their abhorance of contemporary Judeo-Christian morals.
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So basically its fueled by cheap drugs and weak minds?
 
George_Stegmeir said:
The Wiccans are largely self diluded post adolescents, and those who make money off of their dilusions. It is a modern neo-pagan cult that developed in the 1960’s in West Coast US hippie comunes as to excuse their abhorance of contemporary Judeo-Christian morals.
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It actually developed in the 1940s with Gerald Gardner, in England. Where do you get the idea that they make money of their “dilusions”? That’s not a very charitable comment, espcecially with no facts to back it up. It’s worth noting that Catholics make money off their religion, and many people consider it to be a dilusion too. Just because you don’t agree with a religion doesn’t make the followers of that religion delusional.
 
SamH said:
About as much as wiccan and pagan holidays have to do with higher education.
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I wonder why winter and spring vacations always coincide with Christmas and Easter… It must just be happenstance.
 
gnosisofthomas said:
I wonder why winter and spring vacations always coincide with Christmas and Easter… It must just be happenstance.
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They don’t. At least not in my experience. They certainly used to, but not anymore. My kids go to public school in CA, and it has been years since their spring break coincided with holy week. Same is true for Christmas. It used to coincide with Christmas and New Year’s Day. This year, Christmas fell just before the break started. I think public school disricts are very careful not to have their holidays link up with the traditional Christian holidays every year, precisely because they do not want to find themselve defending an Establishment Clause claim.

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Robert
 
Wicca and Paganism are religions too and deserve as much respect as other religions.
 
Lisa1967 said:
Wicca and Paganism are religions too and deserve as much respect as other religions.
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I agree. I just wonder if we should.perhaps pick one holiday from each religion. Otherwise there would be no school if we celebrated all of them.
 
Gary_Sheldrake said:
I agree. I just wonder if we should.perhaps pick one holiday from each religion. Otherwise there would be no school if we celebrated all of them.
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That’s a good point.

I spent some time as Wiccan and sometimes I would take off work on the sabbats.
 
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