National Ritual Celebration Week

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Plenty of people have access to GLOs' rituals and don't read them or read them but you would never know because they don't discuss them, even vaguely. I can access rituals for other NPHC orgs but even reading them doesn't mean much beyond the words on the paper. Since there are nonChristian NPHCers, as well as Christian NPHCers who have denounced because they feel that Greekdom is the antiChrist, there is something to be said for what's embedded in "ritual" and beyond the words. I don't know about other GLOs but Delta is to be taken as a whole and not picked a part because someone has read some document (which isn't "secret" because secrets aren't put in print and distributed in paper form).

@ the bolded: I have seen some of those people and WOW are they um... "special."

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

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Originally Posted by Gusteau

Understanding the limitations of this topic, I would argue that most GLOs try to be accommodating to this discomfort by generally focusing more on the values based sentiment of Ritual in membership education, resources, publications, etc. As long as we emphasize the values inherent in our rituals we should be able to move on from things that are maybe less inclusive.

It's probably worth saying that I feel my Ritual is very inclusive (a valid argument could be made to call it secular, though I would call it interfaith) so I may not fully understand the breadth of these feelings.

And it may be that your ritual is indeed fairly inclusive. Many, though not all, of our rituals were written by white protestant women (NPC) so it's not surprising that themes that white protestant women can relate to are prevalent throughout. Additionally, women from outside that specific experience were exposed to the primarily white, protestant culture of universities and would also have understood or used many of the same themes or references.

So... what does it mean? YMMV basically See, it's so fruitless!