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When pagan communities become dogmatic about authenticity

My local Norse pagan group kicked me out because they said my interpretations weren't 'historically accurate' enough but I thought spirituality was supposed to be personal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The search for spiritual community collides with rigid orthodoxies that mirror the religions one sought to escape.

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“Where Are You with Norse and Germanic paganism?”

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