Chicago Polytheists: Pagans, Traditionalists and Heathens
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Chicago Polytheists
"Why another Chicago area Pagan webring?", you ask. The answer is simple enough:
because there aren't any other Chicago area Pagan rings at this point, in fact none
even for Illinois, and I thought there ought to be one. At most, before I set up the original
"Chicago Pagan, Heathen and Traditionalist Gathering" at Webring (a decision that I find myself
rethinking), between the two largest ring providers there was one Pagan webring for the entire
state, and it was a ring with a specific Political orientation : liberal/feminist/environmentalist.
Nothing wrong with being any of these things, but not all Pagans are, and we ought not be
marginalizing members of the community merely because they don't agree with everybody else. Isn't
that what we entered the Pagan community trying to get away from?
This ring was created to be a more inclusive place. I don't care how liberal you are. I don't care
how conservative you are. I don't care if you're a vegetarian or the man from the story "Chainsaw
Deer Hunt". All that I do care about is that your site be a Pagan one, because this is a Pagan ring,
and we should be staying on topic, or reasonably close to being so.
What's a Pagan? If your religion is of Western or Middle Eastern origin,
and you believe in at least one non-Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity, other
than the single one of Zoroastrianism (also a "religion of the book"),
then you meet the definition of "Pagan" as far as this ring is concerned.
Wiccans, Asatruar, Hellenics, followers of Ishtar ... all are welcome here,
and I do mean what I say.
