Any Pagans here?
Hello, I have the book on order right now and am looking forward to reaidng it. I realize most here are probably Christians. However, I am very interested in this classical approach, but am coming at it from a non-Christian worldview and was wondering if anyone else was as well? Are there any other Pagans here, preferably reconstructionist? We practice Asatru.
Thank you
Ravin
There are a few of us around
Hi Ravin,
My husband is Wiccan, and I am ... generic pagan? I became severely disillusioned with Wicca, but have not found what I am searching for yet. So we're not reconstructionists, but we do take scholarship seriously, including religious scholarship (let's face it, there's a terrible shortage of that amongst Wiccans and generic pagans).
Though not pagan I am very
Though not pagan I am very pro-pagan. I'd personally say that people reading LCC are pretty good about respecting rel;ioous choices. Personally I'm LDS but am somewhere between LDS and UU. I was, once upon a time a Druid. My daughter talks about "back when you were a good witch" :D
LCC to me is very adaptable.
Elizabeth
Single Mama to Annabelle who is five and a half because "I chopped that year right in half HIYA!"
I got the book just before I
I got the book just before I left on vacation. I like the way he organizes things in many respects. I've already started outlining a Heathen Studies programme in place of Christian Studies. For the upper grades, we'll likely add Medieval Studies which will include the Christian and Muslim worlds and their development. Just as Christians are amiss not to consider the classical world and how it shaped our civilization, it would be ridiculous as a Pagan/Heathen to ignore Christianity with respect to its role in history and civilization.
I would love to peek at your
I would love to peek at your Heathen studies program when you've finished it.
We have pared down Christian studies to what I consider to be bare essentials with regards to cultural literacy and historical necessity. Other than that, all we're planning right now is to do what we've always done - read many, many myths and stories that illustrate our particular religious beliefs.
Well, it'll probably take me
Well, it'll probably take me a while! My daughter is not quite 3 at this point. I will be using as something of a model this Hellenistic Reconstructionist Pagan religious education study guide, though:
http://www.ecauldron.com/dc-homereled.php
How funny!
I wrote that article a bunch of years ago, before I became a Christian! My interest in classical education goes way back. ;)
-Drew
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"I wonder how far I shall carry any opinion with me when I plead for active effort to revive the general use of Latin?" - Hilaire Belloc
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Welcome!
I've not run into any other Asatruar who are following the LCC, but there are some other pagan folks around. Have you visited The Denim Jumper? It's a secular site, with active message boards, but there are some classically homeschooling pagans who are regular posters there - including, if memory serves, a Hellenic Recon.
When your book arrives, be sure to check out Appendix C, which briefly talks about how non-Christian families can adapt the curriculum to meet their needs.
Enjoy!
-Drew
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"Hardly any lawful price would seem to me too high for what I have gained by being
made to learn Latin and Greek. —C. S. Lewis
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