[Dataman]

my "religious" beliefs are a personal conceit with no admitted connection to reality

Is this your way of saying that your belief system cannot be defended? That your brain submits to your glands in matters of faith and practice? I'd expect that kind of a response from a liberal, not a conservative.

Whether you refuse to defend your faith or simply are incapable of doing so, the pagan contradictions stand:

The pagan system contradicts the naturalism it embraces,
it has no philosophical or intellectual base,
brute passion dominates reason,
pleasure prevails over personal responsibility,
and the benighted spirit of the dark ages is back in vogue.

[Dead Corpse]

Is this your way of saying that your belief system cannot be defended?

No. It's my way of saying that anyone who takes anything on faith is a fool. That, while there are as yet unknown areas of reality... there is no "spiritual plane" of existance that can be proven.

Keep trying to tie me to the fluffy-headed neo-pagans. It only makes you look more stupid.