Because brickbatting them just gives them a persecution complex and sets up martyrs.
Instead, welcome them into the joyous all-accepting Pagan community, and cheerfully explain that their self-initiation based on a website with sparkles that follow their mouse around makes them a Fifth Degree Gardnerian, and now they can declare themselves a Wytch Qween and talk to the media on behalf of all of Wikka.
Tell them to start with those awful meanies on the creation-vs-evolution forums, who are always just talking about Christian and Atheist viewpoints, like Pagans don't even exist.
I think its gotten worse. There's the angry goth fluffs who think that Wicca is a dirty word, and a whole generation of kids who "became Witches when they were 8/9 (and are now 17)" offering to teach others despite the fact that they've never even picked up a book on the subject.
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Date: 2012-03-08 05:55 am (UTC)Instead, welcome them into the joyous all-accepting Pagan community, and cheerfully explain that their self-initiation based on a website with sparkles that follow their mouse around makes them a Fifth Degree Gardnerian, and now they can declare themselves a Wytch Qween and talk to the media on behalf of all of Wikka.
Tell them to start with those awful meanies on the creation-vs-evolution forums, who are always just talking about Christian and Atheist viewpoints, like Pagans don't even exist.
Get popcorn. Hit refresh.
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Date: 2012-03-08 08:05 pm (UTC)"pagan royalty" ???
Oh, do we get to reinstate the office of the king-who-must die??
I would settle for using the 'princess' as king-substitute...
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Date: 2012-03-09 04:21 pm (UTC)Ain't the internet grand.