The Campus Adelphiasophist
A quasi-religious transformation leading to the appreciation of diversity for its own sake may be required to save other organisms and ourselves.Paul Ehrlich
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Abstract
We invite students sympathetic to the cause of Adelphiasophism to set up Adelphiasophism societies within their student organisations to promote the activities of Adelphiasophism in venerating and protecting the earth. Elect leaders called Saviours (it is the Goddess who is being saved, but by saving her, the members and their children will also be saved from an artificial and polluted “Bladerunner” world) to undertake the different jobs needed.
An Adelphiasophist society could undertake many useful activities both political and religious. Politically they could arrange celebrity visits, speakers and debates, as well as direct action to resist the destruction of the Goddess we see daily, by unscrupulous money grubbers. Make an AS banner for your society and attend conservation, ecological and Green rallies.
In religious terms, arrange coventions and parties of veneration. Moonlit parties in someone's garden, in a wood, a park or on a beach are great for building adelphism, but begin with a brief ceremony, a toast for the Goddess or a speech of wisdom (sophism) as a reminder of the purpose of the festivities. Adelphiasophism does not prescribe any set way to venerate our Goddess, so guests from different NeoPagan groups could be invited to conduct a ceremony of veneration in their own way. Use the chance to explain Adelphiasophism to them!
Otherwise, arrange speakers on the different aspects and varieties of NeoPaganism, Pantheism and Scientific Naturalism, and internal debates to clarify your personal ideas about AS. Our basic rule is extremely simple—not to offend the world, directly or indirectly. It is an easy yardstick that makes wrongdoing difficult.
When you are confident enough, challenge the various Christian societies that abound in universities to debate with you about Christian beliefs or Adelphiasophism. Invite uncommitted people to hear the AS view. Christianity is eminently discreditable but many, young Christians in particular do not know about the lunacy of Christian theology, the falsehood of early Christian history and the unsavoury character of its later history. The Goddess and her matriarchal society cannot succeed without discrediting the main buttress of Patriarchy—Christianity. It is good fun too!
A bookshop is also a way of ensuring good public visibility. There are many books about conservation, Paganism and historical Christianity, that a student society could get at wholesale prices or even on a sale-or return basis.
Another useful venture would be to start a campus Adelphisophism journal or magazine, and, if your uni has an intranet, set up an Adelphiasophist site on it, or set up an Adelphiasophism internet website for you uni's AS society.
For all these activities there is a plethora of helpful material on these websites (adelphiasophism.com and askwhy.co.uk). No permission is needed for students to use material from these sites for their non-commercial activities, but we would appreciate an appropriate credit and would like to hear of any such initiatives.
Remember, Paganism has traditionally been a private matter, but Pagans can no longer stand aside while the earth is excavated into soilheaps. Our duty to the Goddess is not to stand aside while she is ravished by Patriarchal entrepreneurs but to defend her, as you would defend the mother that gave birth to you!
Be prepared to be subject to personal attack by Christians and by the authorities. Christians have not opposed authority since the fourth century and modern authorities think that terminal exploitation of the world's resources is all to the public good. We can suffer the outrage of the pious timeservers for the good of the Goddess and her creation!
Moses and Exodus
