SanctuaryofRoseandChalice, sadly it seems like Wokeness has consumed nearly all of Mainline Protestantism. I chalk this up to the likelihood that most parishioners/congregants have at most a weak or tepid faith in the church's doctrines; and as nature abhors a vacuum, their lack of faith in the traditional religion is filled in by whatever pop culture fads are en vogue at the present. And thus these churches of "weak faith" must continually pander and accommodate said fads in order to remain "relevant" and keep the pews for being totally vacant. The same pattern seems to hold true for nearly all of Neopaganism and various New Age type of groups.
On the matter of our hyopthetical polypantheonic organization, I don't have the exact answer and I'm certainly not qualified to make that determination in any sort of firm or final manner. However one of JMG's responses in that thread I linked in the OP seems to shed some light on how to address this problem:
One historical example of a ritual framework that made room for every known pantheon is late classical Pagan Neoplatonism. The Neoplatonists liked to offer incense rather than, say, sacrificing an ox, and they worked out a general pattern of prayer and offering that could be used to worship any deity known to the classical world. For that matter, Hinduism is equally flexible; if I recall correctly, Sri Ramakrishna performed puja for Christ and Allah among many others, with good results. So it can certainly be done.
I do think something along these lines might work. It seems like Greek, Roman, Romanized Celtic deities, the Hebraic Angels, parts of the Egyptian pantheon, and some other historic cults can be syncretized into one cohesive "Central Tradition"...with perhaps different spaces/altars side aside for Northern (Germanic) and Hindu traditions. But yeah, I suppose the general idea is not to go overboard and spread the system too thin by trying to accommodate every other barely-followed pantheon under the sun (a la ADF), though those who prefer those can most certainly venerate those on their own time.
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Date: 2022-07-12 03:41 pm (UTC)On the matter of our hyopthetical polypantheonic organization, I don't have the exact answer and I'm certainly not qualified to make that determination in any sort of firm or final manner. However one of JMG's responses in that thread I linked in the OP seems to shed some light on how to address this problem:
I do think something along these lines might work. It seems like Greek, Roman, Romanized Celtic deities, the Hebraic Angels, parts of the Egyptian pantheon, and some other historic cults can be syncretized into one cohesive "Central Tradition"...with perhaps different spaces/altars side aside for Northern (Germanic) and Hindu traditions. But yeah, I suppose the general idea is not to go overboard and spread the system too thin by trying to accommodate every other barely-followed pantheon under the sun (a la ADF), though those who prefer those can most certainly venerate those on their own time.