At the kind invitation of Slade, the remarkable editor of Shift Your Spirits e-zine, I wrote up a summary of this “How to Choose a Religion” series. Slade did an amazing job formatting it; you should check out his version just to view his artistry in giving the article stunning visual impact.
The series here at Druid Journal is not yet done, but the summary at Shift Your Spirits covers all the basic ground that I will go over here. I’ll be taking the main points of that summary and expanding on them considerably over the next several weeks. Therefore, if you need to pick a religion and your situation is urgent, I strongly advise you to go on over and check it out.
Links to other Posts in this series: How to Choose a Religion I: Intro

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Before we get into the nuts and bolts of choosing a religion, we have to do some groundwork. Three issues deserve some thought:
1. What is a religion?
2. Why would you want to have one?
3. Pitfalls to avoid before you start looking.
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This is the first of a series on how to choose a religion.
It’s a remarkable age we live in. At any time prior to this in human history, your religion was chosen for you. Your religion was simply the common knowledge of your tribe. Everything your tribe thought it knew about the universe was its “religion”. Choosing another religion was practically unthinkable (unless, of course, you joined another tribe).
Nowadays the opposite situation holds. You must choose your religion, if you want to have one. Even if you grow up in a family with strong religious convictions, at some point you have to decide: am I going to keep with the family tradition, or am I going to go my own way?
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Quite some time ago I wrote about taboo words and euphemisms, and what they can tell us about a society. The gist is that a taboo word is one which causes offense, for whatever reason. If you identify the taboo words in a languge, you can find some of the more sensitive parts of a society.
The power of the taboo word was demonstrated quite forcefully in the recent Senate race in Virginia. The Republican candidate slipped up and used a racial epithet in a speech. The race in Virginia was close enough — decided by fewer than 8,000 votes — that the candidate’s loss can certainly be attributed to the outrage caused by that taboo word. And the balance of power in the Senate was close enough that the single Republican loss led to a switchover in Senate control, so that now, for the first time in twelve years, the Democrats control the Senate.
Read up on all the juicy linguistic details here. (Warning: the article contains the taboo word in question, as well as some even less savory ones.)
..oft evil will shall evil mar…

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