PAGAN ANTI DEFAMATION NETWORK
AFFILIATED TO SAFF
(Summer Solstice, 2002 e.v.)
CHRISTO/PAGAN INTERFAITH SCAM EXPOSED
Chelmsford Pagan Moot
is used as device to convert Pagans to Christianity under the nose of Pete Jennings, the Pagan Federation's Interfaith frontrunner
AS PAN and the SAFF have predicted, the missionary Christian 'Alpha' fundamentalist outreach group is waiting in the wings for naive Pagans at the Chelmsford Pagan Moot. Soft option Pagans at Chelmsford are being totally duped by the
LARGEST MISSIONARY ORGANISATION IN EUROPE!
Criticised by orthodox Christian leaders and proscribed by the Catholic Church for its subversive missionary strategy of converting Catholics to Protestantism, Alpha has spent the past decade building up a huge missionary machine with massive resources which 're-presents' intolerant Biblical writ into a clever New Age disguise. Alpha has absolutely no pretensions to interfaith or tolerance to others' beliefs especially Paganism, which it holds to be theologically counterfeit and Satanically inspired.
ALPHA IS A TOTALLY COMMITTED 'CONVERSION-ORIENTATED' ORGANISATION AND THIS IS ITS PRIME REASON FOR EXISTENCE.
They intend to CONVERT all types of Pagans to Christianity. they have no intention of permitting Pagans to remain Pagan yet here they are connected with the Chelmsford Pagan moot in the U.K. via their website Bulletin Board links. Don't take our word for it - check it out yourself by searching the Chelmsford Pagan Moot site on Google search engine.
All Christian groups know exactly what Alpha is and what it does. The fools at Chelmsford Pagan Moot have allowed themselves to be infiltrated by 'soft' Christian interfaith groups who are using the Moot website as a 'Doorway' to implant hardline and experienced fundie agitators for FULL CONVERSION of Pagans to Christianity.
This is EXACTLY the danger that SAFF and PAN has been warning about. Click on the following link for more details.
http://www.patregan.freeuk.com/jennings_ukpagan.htm
We do not find it surprising to see Peter Jennings' details (the Pagan Federation's interfaith frontrunner ) plastered all over the Chelmsford website. PAN has warned Pagans before about Jennings' apparently indiscriminate welcome for ALL Christian groups without any reference to their inherent danger to Goddess religions. If Pagan moots and forums had been equally as fair to PAN and SAFF news bulletins as they have been to the pro-interfaith lobby this sort of situation would NOT have occurred because rank-and-file Pagans would not have permitted it.
WHERE IS THE WARNING ABOUT ALPHA ON THE CHELMSFORD MOOT WEBSITE?
The average Pagan is now not able to differentiate between tolerant Christian groups that may deserve dialogue and the furtive, subversive fundamentalist groups that fully intend to undermine, disenfranchise and eventually destroy Paganism from within.
They are unable to differentiate because the leaders whom they have trusted appear incapable of telling the difference and have outcast the very Pagan groups that have been monitoring these crafty fundie gambits. Because of this ridiculous situation your average Pagan (and especially newcomers to the Old Religion) are sitting ducks for well tried conversion tactics.
Take for example the story of one Tracey Russell. Tracy's conversion to Christianity from Wicca was reported in the January edition of UK FOCUS (an ALPHA supplement to the Church of England newspaper). This woman had been following a Wiccan path when she met her future husband. She told everyone that she was a Pagan because she thought it "Looked Cool". She had attended Pagan moots and rituals and was praying to the Goddess "Not God" (as she put it). Her Xtian boyfriend 'disapproved' of her Pagan beliefs and after attending an Alpha Course she realised the "Error" of her ways. Her conversion was complete and her nice new Alpha friends approved of her total rejection of the evils of Witchcraft.
We mention this example as it is now a commonplace occurrence. The point is that highly organised fundie groups (like those connected with Alpha) offer individuals the chance of love, new friendships and spiritual salvation at a 'price,' which is total conformity to an intolerant belief system that perceives Paganism as being morally and theocratically bankrupt! 'Christ or the Devil' is the way that they 'always' see the situation, which leaves NO room at all for fair-minded compromise.
Alpha has now been introduced into 130 countries and the course has has been attended by one million people in the U.K. and two million abroad. It is particularly fashionable and attractive to young people who have skirted around the perimeter of the New Age movement. The Neo-Pagan movement is seen as a golden opportunity for mass conversion to Christianity.
Following the indiscriminate open - arms interfaith policy of the PF is both foolhardy and very dangerous. You have been warned but if you wish to update on these matter then please surf the following websites.
PAN www.p-a-n.cjb.net and SAFF http://www.saff.ukhq.co.uk/
The following MISSION STATEMENT is made by the evangelical Heybridge Christian Outreach Centre organisation, which is freely inviting Pagans to attend the ALPHA COURSE (without challenge) on Jennings' Chelmsford Pagan Moot website.
What is a Christian Outreach Centre?
Our purpose as a Church
is:
Conversion (via subconscious persuasion/indoctrination) is the name-of-the-game with these missionary groups. The Church has had numerous decades to 'perfect' its mind-manipulating conversion techniques, which are designed to give ordinary free-thinking individuals no feasible right to fair response. The evangelical success with Alpha Course is evidence of this and gullible 'seekers' have little chance when faced with the smiling Happy Clappy, Born Again mind-control system. Human desire for 'conformity' and the (SAFETY IN NUMBERS) 'Herd Instinct' frequently ensure that people who may usually think otherwise, are often drawn into fundie belief traps via 'loving persuasion' from their newly-found Xtian comrades. The Alpha Course with its strong emphasis on love, companionship and salvation from 'SIN' is a prospect that millions have found very hard to resist. Herein lies the true danger of a system that offers hope and love with one hand whilst 'damning' Pagan/occultist beliefs with the other.
The trouble is that Paganism (and every other 'competing' faith) is part of the SIN which they wish to eradicate - this is their Biblical crusade. No amount of hollow bickering from the Christo/Pagan interfaith lobby can change this theocratical fact.
It is the height of ludicrous irresponsibility for the Chelmsford Pagan Moot to give them free access to many 'newcomers' to the Craft that may be totally unaware of the hidden agenda held by these well-versed missionaries, while they naively exchange pentacles for crucifixes at interfaith events.
PAN asks: How many more thoughtless Pagan airheads, like those running Chelmsford Moot, are letting in the Fundie Missionary Machine by the back door due to gross intransigence, ignorance and lack of discernment over dangerously flawed Christo/Pagan interfaith policy?
Why is ex-PF President, Pete Jennings' Chelmsford Moot doing the Evangelists' work for them by effectively bringing Pagans into the grasp of an experienced and incredibly well-funded/organised conversion system that is ever-hungry to 'save' Pagans souls for Christ?
Don't let these blinkered fools take the Old Religion into a new DARK AGES, which starts with a suppressive dilution of the wholesome 'Goddess Current', via missionary infiltration.
Disclaimer:
PAN realises that the vast majority of Christians are not fundamentalist or evangelical in make up and we only criticise religious extremists who seek to disenfranchise other faiths whilst bolstering their own. PAN does not in any way condone violence against any persons or property and we must state that we have always worked towards a more tolerant and equal society.