my research with the census data was to give some supporting numbers of
pagans in the UK, but I compared that to 'straight' religions to give an
idea of the minor scale, and the census numbers included a lot of
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikh, atheists etc, and to
artificially aggregate all neopagans into one lump to force them into number
7 on the list is, imo, duplicitous and criminal data-chiselling, especially
when that aggregate might well include the 1500 or so who self-labeled as
Satanists, and who would presumably abhor wiccans/pagans almost as much as
they abhor xians.... plus a few thousand Druids, who in many cases are as
much 'Celtic christian' as much as they are pagan, and a whopping 32
thousand Spiritualists, (ditto for nominally christian underpinnings), with
only just over 7000 self-labeling as Wiccan
with maybe (a big maybe) 120-140,000 being nominally pagan or something
similar (this includes all the small numbers of Santeria, Asatru etc)
and that figure is simply dwarfed by the 390,000 Jedi Knights : )
dave e
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From: "Andrew Fergus Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:06 PM
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Witchcraft/Nature worship talk. Midlands, England.
>D E wrote:
>> *suppresses laughter*
> Well, I'm delighted to have brought happiness - suppressed or not - to
> your your day.
>
>> this isn't the same census data I spent hours working with few years
>> back, then .....
>>
> Did your findings vary then? It would be very useful if you would share it
> :-)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> /Paganism is the oldest religion in the World, dating back to the
>> cave man. And it's still growing in popularity. At the last
>> census (2001), Paganism was the 7th largest religion in the UK -
>> and it's grown in popularity since then. /
>>
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