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I have been fascinated by all the responses to my provocative remarks on heathenism, and it has helped to confirm me in a career decision I was already inclining to, namely that I'm really not at home in Religious Studies and ought to go and do something else. I wouldn't like anyone to think my aversion to paganism springs from Christian prejudice, since I dislike evangelical Christians much more than I dislike pagans. I once worked with a woman who told me she used to be a witch but had now "returned to Christ" - I couldn't quite make up my mind which phase of her belief trajectory was more irritating. (Incidentally, she was definitely working class - she lived in Easington, Co. Durham, which came out with the worst health problems in the country in the census.) I am by sympathy and conviction an atheist and this is at the root of my aversion to new religious movements - I think that inventing even more religions is going in the wrong direction. So maybe it's not too late for me to go and train as an engineer. In the meantime, I'll shut up on this list. Elaine