{"id":390,"date":"2009-10-05T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/10\/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-paganism.html"},"modified":"2009-10-05T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:16:08","slug":"12-things-you-didnt-know-about-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/10\/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-paganism.html","title":{"rendered":"12 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About Paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have have been asked to prepare a special page on 12 things you didn&#8217;t know about Paganism for Beliefnet.&nbsp; I have come up with a preliminary 11.&nbsp; They are NOT set in stone.&nbsp; For Pagan readers: any suggestions?&nbsp; For non-Pagan readers, any thing I have not covered that you&#8217;d like to see?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n1<span>. Do Pagans Believe in God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>2. Are Pagans witches?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>3. Is there a difference between<br \/>\nPagans and Wiccans?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>4. Do Pagans sacrifice animals?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>5. Do Pagans seek converts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>6. What is a Sabbat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>7. What is &#8220;Drawing Down the<br \/>\nMoon&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>8. Do Pagans worship Nature?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>9. Do Pagans Hate Christ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>10. Do Pagans have a scripture?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>11. What is the difference<br \/>\nbetween NeoPagans and Pagans?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Please be aware that while I am not wedded to these particular 11, if I get a lot of suggestions, some will of necessity be left out.&nbsp; I&#8217;m limited to 12.&nbsp; I mean no disrespect if yours is left out, and I&#8217;ll try and do a separate post on it.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have have been asked to prepare a special page on 12 things you didn&#8217;t know about Paganism for Beliefnet.&nbsp; I have come up with a preliminary 11.&nbsp; They are NOT set in stone.&nbsp; For Pagan readers: any suggestions?&nbsp; For non-Pagan readers, any thing I have not covered that you&#8217;d like to see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>12 Things You Didn&#039;t Know About Paganism - A Pagan&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/10\/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-paganism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"12 Things You Didn&#039;t Know About Paganism - A Pagan&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have have been asked to prepare a special page on 12 things you didn&#8217;t know about Paganism for Beliefnet.&nbsp; 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