Basically, I agree with your assessments here. Personally, I think that a major problem with the Neopaganism sensu lato is how family unfriendly it can feel, even when it's wholesome. That is, my own polytheist approach is basically informed by occultism and the Jungians. That's to say, it's almost entirely esoteric and personal. If I were to raise a family, I would not raise them as polytheists. Rather, for exoteric religion I would draw on my Jewish heritage and have Shabbat dinners and observe some of the yomim tovim. Since I'm a polytheists, after all, I can honor the god of my ancestors in the context of family while having my private devotions.
This is my personal taste: I have nothing against people raising their children as Wicca or Druid or Heathen. If I were to raise children in that way, I personally would feel like I was faking it in a way that I would not in lighting Shabbat candles, singing "Shalom Aleichem," and making Kiddush and having a nice family dinner with some board games and conversations. Point being, the exoteric/esoteric division is a very big one to my mind as it relates to organization. Also, to be entirely honest, I look at Neopagans and see so many really creepy people and I look at my Jewish friends and neighbors --- some occultists! --- and I see such relatively more wholesome people on the whole. The whole exoteric Neopagan egregore seems tainted, and while I value my personal religious/esoteric devotions/practices well beyond words, it's very hard for me to imagine taking any sort of active hand in raising children polytheist. Rather I'd want to share my heritage and set an example of open-mindedness and tolerance.
Of course, that's the sort of attitude thing that Krasskova rails against. That said, I see she isn't raising any children even though she exhorts her followers to breed. Frankly that part of her politic grosses me out. I'm not quite sure how one spells "Sharia Law" in old Norse, but that's what Krasskova's "Piety Posse" and political ranting always reeks of to me. I mention Krasskova in this context because she is so active in working to perpetuate Western Revivalist Polytheism and she does a good job of making me want to distance myself from that scene even more.
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This is my personal taste: I have nothing against people raising their children as Wicca or Druid or Heathen. If I were to raise children in that way, I personally would feel like I was faking it in a way that I would not in lighting Shabbat candles, singing "Shalom Aleichem," and making Kiddush and having a nice family dinner with some board games and conversations. Point being, the exoteric/esoteric division is a very big one to my mind as it relates to organization. Also, to be entirely honest, I look at Neopagans and see so many really creepy people and I look at my Jewish friends and neighbors --- some occultists! --- and I see such relatively more wholesome people on the whole. The whole exoteric Neopagan egregore seems tainted, and while I value my personal religious/esoteric devotions/practices well beyond words, it's very hard for me to imagine taking any sort of active hand in raising children polytheist. Rather I'd want to share my heritage and set an example of open-mindedness and tolerance.
Of course, that's the sort of attitude thing that Krasskova rails against. That said, I see she isn't raising any children even though she exhorts her followers to breed. Frankly that part of her politic grosses me out. I'm not quite sure how one spells "Sharia Law" in old Norse, but that's what Krasskova's "Piety Posse" and political ranting always reeks of to me. I mention Krasskova in this context because she is so active in working to perpetuate Western Revivalist Polytheism and she does a good job of making me want to distance myself from that scene even more.