Pagans: Do you find the conscious transgression of Christian "ethics" to be spiritually empowering?

Question

As a Magickal practice do you think there is any value in breaking social Taboos installed by Christians?

Do you think it "deprograms" one from a "herd mentality"?

Do you integrate such as part of your personal practice?

Answer 1

No, I don't think breaking any taboos or commiting

any sort of transgressions has anything to do with

my spiritual practices. I am aware that Christians

might shudder to hear about certain metaphysical

workings that I have engaged in, but what they

think is really of no concern to me.

I'd suppose the typical teenager who's trying to

get attention and aggrivate their parents would be

the only one who finds breaking a taboo to be an

"empowering experience"...

Jean

Answer 2

Sure.  Culture jamming is fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_Jam...

Answer 3

I'm not a pagan but reaching beyond our boundaries is always liberating.  

Answer 4

There are plenty of "Christians" who transgress these "Ethics" themselves, so you could also ask one of them.  Just look at the mess of mixing Christianity with politics.

Answer 5

I don't care about "christian ethics" (isn't that an oxymoron?), so it doesn't enter my practice.

celtic pagan

Answer 6

facepalm. Even if you use the term magick, it's magical, like other words ending in -ick. Because Magickal is "Magic Kal."

Okay.

First, I really don't know what you mean by concious transgression of Christian ethics.

If you're a non-Christian, and you have hang-ups you acquired from Christianity that you feel you need to work on, by all means do so...by any means you need.

But Christianity is not a herd mentality, although some Christians might be herd people.

I guess since I've never been a Christian I don't see how any of my Pagan practices have anything to do with doing anything to a Christian anything.

Answer 7

The fruits of modern pagans proove the tree is good, just as the fruits of Christianity proove it's coruption.  there is much to gain by breaking, accepting, and rebreaking taboos of all types. You realize the "Map is Not the Territory." (Alfred Korzybski)

Answer 8

This is in many ways the essence of the Left Hand Path to go against and be an adversary by deliberately "transgressing" majority ideologies.

There was a time when I integrated such into Magick rituals and behaviors, etc. though the point comes when after all previous indoctrination has been transcended what then?

After all taboos have been explored and exploded where does one go from there?

So yes I think these exercises are effective though they should only be used for a certain period of time. If that time is extended beyond its purpose it is no longer Magick but simply reactionary behavoir.