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Wonkette : Fox News Lady Very Worried About All These Pagans Forcing Jesus To Take Slut Pills

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:30:45 +0000

I think you're good until Nigel trips on it.

Wonkette : Fox News Lady Very Worried About All These Pagans Forcing Jesus To Take Slut Pills

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:29:38 +0000

You may well be right, but generally we don't care whether or not anyone agrees with our particular strains of batshittiness. ;)

Wonkette : Fox News Lady Very Worried About All These Pagans Forcing Jesus To Take Slut Pills

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:28:21 +0000

Hiya Wonkette--some of us actual Pagans have been keeping an eye on such wingnuttery as well--check out coverage at the Wild Hunt etc!

Hail Columbia : Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:21:29 +0000

Thanks for the Observer link--saw the Maddow piece too and have been meaning to look it up.

The Wild Hunt : Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:09 +0000

Just saw your reply--thanks NA!

The Wild Hunt : Esoteric Publishers, Crowley, and the 'New Right'

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:27:57 +0000

The entire concept of "race" is only as real as we decide to make it, regardless. Racial categories are *invented* by different societies over time and so they vary drastically from one place to another and through different time periods; they simply don't have any basis in biological reality. Yes people have different skin colors and hair textures and what have you depending on the geographical origins of their ancestors, but it's the meanings that we assign to these characteristics that make up what we call "races," not the characteristics themselves. We don't talk about "quadroons" any more for heaven's sakes (heh, the spell check here doesn't even recognize the word! :)) but it was a vitally important concept a century and a half ago in the Deep South of the US.

The Wild Hunt : Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

Thu, 9 Jun 2011 05:15:32 +0000

Nidhling....? That's one heathen (I think?) term I don't know, can you help me out? Sounds useful. :)

The Wild Hunt : Crisis and the Rise of Exorcisms

Mon, 16 May 2011 19:48:56 +0000

Thanks for the references, Jason, very useful. Meanwhile...sigh. I wonder if the fact that I'm dabbling in herbalism means I need to have the satanic spirit of basil exorcised out of me? Or maybe it's the sage, that one ALWAYS leads to trouble...;)

The Wild Hunt : Crisis and the Rise of Exorcisms

Mon, 16 May 2011 19:46:31 +0000

Bingo--same thing with the fantasy literature and music etc, they'll cite whatever's current, and they can always find SOMETHING. These days it's Harry Potter etc, earlier it was those "backwards satanic messages" on Styx albums.

The Wild Hunt : The Washington Times' Ignorant Editorial

Fri, 6 May 2011 18:32:21 +0000

Another thing I find very interesting here is the underlying assumption (similar to the Green Dragon stuff) on the WT writer's part that environmentalism is fundamentally incompatible with xianity. But while I certainly prefer a Pagan sort of "dark green religion," there's all sorts of monotheistic religious environmentalism going on out there. As Hecate noted above, this is as much about attacking environmentalism as it is about going after us specifically--and in the process they're (purposefully, I think) condemning more liberal xians who don't have a problem with sharing some of our values and (literally, in this case) giving us our space as well.

The Wild Hunt : The Anti-Pagan Florida Democrat

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:33:49 +0000

I wonder if someone should clue her in that some *white* people also worship/revere their ancestors, and that not all of the tree-worshipers are in Africa? That'd really ruin her Token Black Lady Who Says Things White Wingnuts Love to Hear schtick, though. ;)

The Wild Hunt : The Anti-Pagan Florida Democrat

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:25:43 +0000

Anyone remember the old SNL skit..."demon raisins, I REBUKE you...." ....still laughing...

The Wild Hunt : The Anti-Pagan Florida Democrat

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:12:59 +0000

No way--the wingnuts can NOT have those beaches. Not even the Pensacola ones. ;)

The Wild Hunt : Quick Notes: A Rude Aphrodite, Polytheism in A Song of Ice and Fire, and Black Heimdall

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:44:41 +0000

Nicely said Florence. As another example, I was profoundly annoyed with how Stephen R. Lawhead insisted on Christianizing Lugh and the Dagda (turning them into Christ and xian-God figures, respectively) in his Song of Albion series, however well written it was otherwise...but, well, "meh."

The Wild Hunt : Quick Notes: A Rude Aphrodite, Polytheism in A Song of Ice and Fire, and Black Heimdall

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:39:10 +0000

My thoughts exactly re: Chan, you beat me to it. :)

The Wild Hunt : On Faith: Carole A. Smith and Pagans in the Workplace

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:20:41 +0000

Fabulous!

The Wild Hunt : Remembering The Queen of Heaven

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:42:04 +0000

I stumbled across Patai's book in the early 90s when I was becoming Pagan and (not coincidentally :)) working on a Women's Studies degree. Hoo boy was it an eye-opener for someone who'd never heard of such things before. I'm very glad to see that what now seems (to me) to be very basic religious-history info is getting a new round of news coverage. I hope the show will be posted someplace where people outside the UK can see it!

The Wild Hunt : The Third Wave's Predictable Wallowing in Japan's Tragedy

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:31:48 +0000

Funny thing, when you mentioned Jacobs a while back the name rang a bell and after checking I realized she was the author of one of those anti-Harry-Potter-Pokemon-and-witches books, _Deliver Us from Evil_. I suspect those books are an attempt to snag people who aren't well-versed in Reconstructionism deeper into the movement b/c they're worried about their kids etc.

The Wild Hunt : A Quick Word About St. Patrick's Day

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:04:25 +0000

Interestingly, I ran across something today referencing another expert (a Classics Prof) that contradicts Daverin's perspective: "But since snakes often represent evil in literature, "when Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland, it is symbolically saying he drove the old, evil, pagan ways out of Ireland [and] brought in a new age," Freeman said." http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/1...

The Wild Hunt : The Pasts We Believe In

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:48:19 +0000

Very nicely said Jason, and I particularly like PSVL's interweaving of the syncretic with the "profoundly local" elements of ancient Paganism. I often wish we'd do more to acknowledge the reality of the first in both ancient and modern practice, and to find ways to incorporate the second more frequently into our own practices--THIS tree, THIS river, THIS big rock, THIS town, etc., not just the festivals and theology based on the seasons and sacred sites of the British Isles.