"The problem I had with this was that statement was that 5 minutes earlier were talking up how paganism is following the "old ways."
If you want to invent a new religion, fine, that hurts me none at all. I don't know if it should get the title "paganism" but that's at least debatable. Neo-paganism is certainly an evolved form of paganism. But you can't have it both ways. You can't claim to follow the "old religion" and show no interest in historical paganism."
Again, why does it matter what another does? How am I harmed if someone wants to latch onto a buzz word and make a particular claim?. Whether I agree or not, I am not on their path and they are not on mine. To each his own as long as they aren't affecting me.
Then again, this sort of garbage is why I don't get into discussion regarding practice with many Pagans. I don't even get into these sorts of discussions with many who do energy work for the same reason ... just because someone was taught to use a particular method doesn't mean I have to follow it to the letter.
Hell, I don't even follow what I was taught to the letter because I know what works for me and don't really care, once the training is over, how anyone else does things.
What anybody does is totally their business.
If someone else objects, they have a right to voice that objection, but not restrict the other person.
Words, on the other hand,
mean things.We need them to communicate. When they become meaningless jargon and weasel words for something they really don't mean, we're not communicating anymore.