en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/552985 Comments by GreenWaySkull http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56428010 There were cultures that raided their neighbors' villages specifically for sacrifices to appease their gods. The sacrifices had to be strong un-marred (i.e. crippled or severly wounded) adults prior to sacrifice. Of course the same culture routinely slaughtered their own people as sacrifices as well, but the 'outsider' sacrifice was used at certain times or to make certain entreaties of their gods. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:57:50 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56428010 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56412199 What about traditions that sacrificed their enemies, such as warriors defeated in battle. You could say Summerisle paganism saw Howie as a defeated enemy warrior of sorts. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:19:37 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56412199 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56408748 Worthy of sacrific for one. He had to have some worth or he wouldn't be a good sacrifice. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:50:18 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56408748 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56393331 'Worthy' is a better word. There are very few people in this world I consider to be 'bad' and even fewer I've found to be 'good'. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:41:20 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56393331 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56377712 The character is 'good' in the sense that he came to find a missing girl and even once he thought she was possibly dead stayed trying to find or help her if he could. He also stood up for his convictions in the face of adversary, lots of it. Alot of his rightous anger was due to the fact he was being pushed around and obstructed by an entire population. Had he turned out to be a total cad his life would not have ended as it did. The villagers had to test him and they and Summerilse himself gave him pleanty of oppurtunities to turn back. These were the traits that lead him to be sacrificed, not annoying christian-ness. I do thing 'Wicker Man' is probably one of the better depictions of martyrdom, whatever the religion. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:17:05 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56377712 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56276134 It's nice to see the UN do something both positive and common sense-ical. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:14:06 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56276134 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56275203 ' "The Wicker Tree" better be good- it has such enormous shoes to fill, I doubt it can be done. But I'm going to be first in line to see it; the original Wicker Man is my all-time favorite movie. And, just like the Wicker Man, The Wicker Tree is about annoying Christians going into someone's village and preaching and pulling their privilege card- and like the Wicker Man, they come to a swift and painful end. Who couldn't like that? It's a theme that is practically therapy for modern Pagans who have had to endure so much. ' The annoying Christian in 'Wicker Man' was brought to the village for the expressed purpose of being sacrificed. He's ultimate fate was due more to the fact he was a good enough person to make a worthy sacrifice and not because he was annoying and preachy. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:03:57 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/native-beliefs-on-trial-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment56275203 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/more-on-that-air-force-academy-circle.html#IDComment55947238 It wasn't to you it was to Lokisgodhi. However, if you go looking for war, you will find it. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:09:31 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/more-on-that-air-force-academy-circle.html#IDComment55947238 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/more-on-that-air-force-academy-circle.html#IDComment55882324 You sound an awful lot like thouse uber-rightoues war mongering christian pastor you seem to hate so much. So far as I should get out of the way for those of you who can. Well, that sounds an awful lot like exclusionism if you don't mean it that way. If you believe in a holy war thats just fine, but don't drag the rest of us into it or call us less pagan or less spiritual because we don't agree with you. Most pagans are pagan for the main reason that they don't believe in dogma or orthadoxy and wish to take no orders from anyone other than themselves and their gods. Please don't insult me or my gods by calling us out on a war we have no intrest in. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:55:43 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/more-on-that-air-force-academy-circle.html#IDComment55882324 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/more-on-that-air-force-academy-circle.html#IDComment55765864 If the job at hand is bashing christians the same way we scream about their bashing us, then yes I think alot of us are to 'squeamish' for it. Personally I see myself as to well mannered to lump every memeber of a religion into the same group as the hate mongers. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 18:25:51 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/more-on-that-air-force-academy-circle.html#IDComment55765864 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54557456 Haha. I like it. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:30:01 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54557456 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54447163 Actually there is no seperation between church and state as is commonly understood. The state/govt is not allowed to favor or endorse one religion above others nor is it allowed to take steps to establish one religion as the 'state religion'. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:56:30 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54447163 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54445663 Needless to say this is all academic to the actual problem. Today's society does in fact use the word religion to describe all spiritual beliefs, not just the dogmatic. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:50:20 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54445663 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54445254 The word religion has only lately (the past 100 years or so) come to refer to beliefs in general, thanks in part to the spiritalist movement. It used to mean only a set, organized set of belief that adhered to some sort of dogmatic code or othodoxy. Very much in the spirit of (W) Bush saying that witchcraft isn't a religion. Despite how offensive this seems at first glance it is true. Witchcraft is a practice, which happens to be used in several religions. If someone ask my religion I don't respond with 'I'm a witch', I respond with 'I'm a pagan'. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:48:27 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/is-the-first-amendment-for-monotheists-only.html#IDComment54445254 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/its-knot-what-you-think.html#IDComment53853314 It's Pookas. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:44:14 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/its-knot-what-you-think.html#IDComment53853314 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/max-beauvoir-protests-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment52735916 My own take on MLK's quote was he was trying to say the church should be an influence on our political thoughts and actions and not in control of them. And I don't think church in this context actually precludes non- christian faiths. Churches are merely place or social groups of worship. The city I live in has at least 2 pagan/wiccan churches. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:01:28 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/max-beauvoir-protests-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment52735916 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/the-salem-witch-makeover-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment51598008 As long as it has Belzer on it, I'd watch it. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:46:50 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/the-salem-witch-makeover-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#IDComment51598008 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/the-witch-and-the-christian-fedex-guy.html#IDComment51414111 At my retail job I've had two seperate customers 'pray' over me, which I didn't mind as they were telling their god I was a nice person and had helped them ( I would have minded had they been praying for their god to save my soul or show me the error of my ways). However it was odd and even at work I wear my pagan jewelry. When my co-workers and I get stuck on register (i.e. can't make a hasty retreat from annoying or insulting customers) we often get people handing out chick tracts and the like. Most of us just rip them up while the customer is standing there, but I've found picking up the trash can and saying "oh we have a trash can if you need it" works the best. Conversly, I get solicited by pagans to come join their churches or coven or gatherings, so whatever. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:49:19 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/the-witch-and-the-christian-fedex-guy.html#IDComment51414111 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/chesterfields-occult-sciences-vs-the-spiritual-counselor.html#IDComment50167623 Most conservatives dislike zoning regulation abuse such as the Chesterfield case and the waste of tax payer money to fight an issue that should never have been under government jurisdiction in the first place. Please don't confuse political conservatives with religious ones(i.e. christian conservatives). We are not at all the same breed Sun, 3 Jan 2010 05:56:18 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/chesterfields-occult-sciences-vs-the-spiritual-counselor.html#IDComment50167623 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/bloody-death-pit-or-anti-santeria-vendetta.html#IDComment49964304 And what exactly does the fact that he has an AK-47 in the house have anything to do with the bones and supposed animal abuse? This seems more and more like a strange case that the PSPCA and news orgs are blowing way out of proportion for their own political reasons. Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:06:18 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/01/bloody-death-pit-or-anti-santeria-vendetta.html#IDComment49964304