Pentacle follies

well the pentacle is accepted and of course the mundanes and the unimaginative have begun beating their drums and circling the wagons..or is the pagans beating the drums.. of course to the fundies it is a sign of the apocalypse since nothing about the VA is found in the bible they are running to their worn books of the Left Behind series to find out what this means in the grand scheme of apacolypto..The NY Post finds the Idea of Pagans dying for their country hilarious and showed a tongue and cheek look at a VA headstone..Luckily Pagans are a relatively peaceful lot compared to Mono's we do not recommend that said tongue be torn out or the cheek branded as some religions would of reacted at this kind of insult in the past or right now...The only fatwa we believe in is the fat in the suet of our figgy puddding and usually that is veggie fat..So Pagans should not think this is the end of it because in ten years in Podunk, Bible belt some pagan is going to need to sue a vet cemetary to get said Pentacle because stonewalling by some fundie monomaniacal beureuacrat....Unless a future republican congress makes it against the law to sue against such stonewalling ...The VA is a machiavellian org and just because they say they will don't mean they will...

peace

Sometimes something happens that numbs you and you cannot think about your daily irritations and that sorrow makes one let go of daily concerns. Whenever Alot of people die who were doing nothing but what they were supposed to be doing good and productive things...It's shocking and knocks one off their equilibrium...I hope that the grieving people find a measure of serenity on the rest of their paths I hope that the dead find peace...

one little piggy, two little piggy, three ect.

Well people are kvetching about fundie orgs that are aligning themselves with neo-nazi scientists like Mr. Cameron and his org...But instead of jews, gypsies,the mentally ill, physical disabled and gay people being lumped together as early twentieth century eugenics proponents did...They are begining with gays they are starting small and then will build up to final crescendo a purging of all the ungodly as identified to them by god. Read, Left Behind, if you wish to know if you are on the list or study the 20th Century Eugenics Movement. A movement that was invented at the turn of the century by the doctor brother of a fundementalist preacher and spread across the prairie by eugenic faires/revival meeting...Later on brought to German scientists by German American Doctor were it was married with Psuedo-scientific Antropological theory to form Nazi Doctrine... So the marriage of Fundies with questionable scientific theory is not new or a fad or them being mislead is a marriage going back to the turn of the century... the last century

Merry Part from the weather confused Hinterlands.....

Rascally Rabbits

Well Easter is over with a pleasant family meal and no talk of religion at it..Thank Goddess Quiet and the food was delicious my sister-in-laws cooking has improved a great deal since she started cooking diabetic...My downstairs is almost finished my obsessively watching Clean House and Niecy Nash has paid off I have a kitchen worthy of a small magazine spread now when I am depressed I just go to the kitchen look at it and sigh the sigh of a contented amatuer interior designer...Of course being the large and overfed children at heart that my husband and I are we have plastered fat and jolly dragons on the wall above the sink and stove using the excuse that the dragons will protect the paint job from splatters of grease and dirty dish water...Something a Style mavens would shudder at...But I believe any excuse to decorate with a Fairy or dragon or preferably both is a good excuse.

So reading blogs and listening to fundamentally bent acquaintances I get the feeling that people of the fundie persuasion wish to exorcise the ghost of pagan past from Christmas and now Easter...Unfortunately amongst the english that was tried by the Calvinists called puritans or roundheads...But they did not call it the pagan influence it was a push to get rid of popery and popish(catholic) influence in the Church of England....A civil war occurred in which many noble things were espoused and then religious fanatics took over england and the Massachusettes colony..the good old pilgrims made any partying a illegal...Any celebration of Christmas or Easter left one open to a large fine or the stock depending on your social class....This lasted about twenty years in which all competing forms of Christianity to the Calvinist were outlawed and many of other sects especially the Irish Catholics died in inhumane Pogroms by the puritans...

This ended with the death of the puritan leader Cromwell and led to the monarchy being restored and the English embarking on a twenty year party to celebrate the end of the reign of a christian version of the taliban...That is kind of like why I laugh when I hear so-called historians talk about the pilgrim coming up with the notion freedom of religion or democracy...Religious fundamentalists do not believe in freedom they do not trust it or want it...

Modern Democracy was born in the Age of REason by Philosphers and social scientists. It was not fundamentalist christian, political or social conservatives who created created modern democracy they were busy defending the divine right of kings and waging war between Protestants and Catholics...Suffrage for the common man and literacy for them also, was the provenance of the radical at that time...To say America is a Christian Nation is true alot of Americans are christian and most of the signer of the declaration of Independence were Christian If any were Atheists or agnostics is lost to history as that time being a vocal atheist meant that the crown could torture you, take away your property and burn you to death...much harsher fate than the mere hanging that signing the declaration would have brought them...There is a legit reason why atheists hate religion that goes beyond their belief in atheisms superiority...Atheist have always been tied on the stake next to the witch, case in point Italian Astronomer Bruno.

So to take to Heart the Easter Bunny survived the puritans and it will survive the fundies gunning for it the way Elmer chased Bugs all over the forest, she will just keep goin and goin like the Goddess.

False nostalgia and false paranoia

Well tomorrow is another holiday the one that most of the powers that be celebrate though how sincerely is only known betwixt them and their hairdresser the paraphrase the commercial..I always am in a befogged state of mind at times when new people come into my life or events occur I think are profound or of great import and I always wonder what is the meaning of this, What is it Goddess is showing me? I find that trying to tease out Her and the universes intent never works out a I find that the answer always unveils itself and rarely remains a mystery... It is usually a lesson plan for me and rarely a relevation of great import to humankind ...

Recently a russian artist came into my sphere of influence I wondered as I was trying to divest myself as much as I could of bad lingering russian bigotry and nationalism and also the religion...It worried me until I realized that what he was is a lesson in trust that I was right in certain beliefs and supposition I made about my European heritage and my mothers religion...It is always a relief to know you are on the right path in spiritual matters and not to linger in false nostalgia...

America is a strange country in matters of religion.... THey do not believe that there is religious discrimination here any more. Except among Conservatives that belief that christianity is being persecuted by secular Humanists...But ask them what a Secular humanist is and they have no definition beyond being in league with the devil...But then My definition on secular humanism is a bit fuzzy also.. Really it is not persecution that these people have an overiding sense of paranoia about. It is the fact that now days many people are not impressed by their religion or so-called piety and are not shy to tell them..."You obsessive compulsive about Jesus, I am not, get out of my face ." Is what a lot of these people are hearing and they do not like the fact that no one wants to kow-tow to them or move to the back of the ecumenical bus when they get on...

People who do face discrimination are usually viewed as deserving it like the way rape victims are made to feel...Somehow because the victim does not belong to a religion that resembles a mainstream religion they are in a cult and thus deserving of bad treatment<>And that is the gist of all religious discrimnation make life so hard that they will convert to the dominant religion if not that at least something related to it......

Merry Part from the Hinterlands