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I'm asking because I have an entry in Peer review on Celtic Knotwork, A981911, and I was reading around other entries mentioning Celts - not that your entry seems to have any clear link to mine.

Do you have sources for your premises, or are they your own?
Pimms

I too would like to see some sources and references for your statements, in particular:

"Pagan Premise No. 1" sounds suspiciously like Wicca.

"We use the Pentacle to symbolize Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit, surrounded in the circle of Love. These are the 5 Elements of Creation."

What Celtic sources do you have for the use of the pentacle? What Celtic sources do you have for those five elements.

Pagan Premise No. 3

This is Karmic, where are the Celtic references for this? Again, this sounds more like Wicca than anything Celtic.

Pagan Premise No. 4
Christianity is only 2000 years old, a teenager compared to Judaism at 6000+ years, Egyptian at 7000+ years, and Paganism, which is 40,000+ years (Y2K my ass!!).

Okay, now show me the evidence for an uninterrupted form of Celtic Paganism. Pagan beliefs might be old but they are also diverse. Egyptians did NOT believe the same as the Celts and it isn't all one happy hippy belief with "insert god names here".


Pagan Premise No. 6
Divine Love, forgiveness and making mistakes are our Divine Birthright, which on one can take away from you. Ditto for going to Heaven after you die. There is no such thing as Hell, since there is no such thing as punishment.

Where is the evidence for this in a Celtic belief system? Why have a system like "harm none" if there is no punishment?

"These are the basics of modern witchcraft, druidry, shamanism and many other forms of Celtic Paganism. "

How is modern witchcraft Celtic? How is shamanism Celtic?


"It is estimated that there are over 5 million PAgans, many of whom are still in the "broom closet" on North America. "

Have you counted? Estimates and guesses are of no use to anyone. You'd need to define Pagan first. There is a great deal of difference between the different forms of Paganism. I might be Pagan and you might be Pagan but that doesn't mean we share the same or even similar beliefs.

Anne