A little while back, I grieved the loss of a voice of Pagan divergent opinion I found in Right Wing of the Gods. I searched for a while for something to replace it in my irregular blog reading and gave up. Then completely out of the blue, I discovered two blogs that fit the bill.

Rite Wing TechnoPagan is the blog of Karl Lembke, who wrote the article about tolerance I so liked, and who also wrote several other thought provoking articles found on Witches’ Voice.

Pagan~Vigil is by “Pagan philosopher, libertarian, and part-time trouble maker,” NeoWayland.

While I have referred to a desire to hear “conservative” points of view in the pagan community, it is more accurate to say that what I seek is an ability to look beyond “liberal” and “conservative” labels, to question cherished assumptions, and to pierce empty rhetoric to get at What It Is All About.

While I might not agree with everything they write, the things I don’t agree with are argued effectively enough to challenge me and to cause me to inspect and critique my own belief structure.  That is what I always hunger for: a good challenge that, no matter the outcome, I am a better person for having gone through.

This is what we need more of in the pagan community: fierce competition, real competition, in our “marketplace of ideas.”  Modern paganism cannot help but benefit from it.