Dangers Real And Imagined Or Still More Penicillin For Ye Burning Times
In my more rapidly post, I mentioned a Witch College member who complained about the inferior Dominionists in her sector. Not want very much last this, the ever-vigilant Jack Faust done in me in the tutoring of this quote from Witch College founder Ed Hubbard on the Evangelical/Fundamentalist threat:

"At phase 3 it drive be to decently kindle Wicca and Paganism. It is at this phase I deem we are of late in... Interval 4 is the real pisser. They drive find a way to make a Wiccan, a Pagan, a Witch a criminal class. Not unique the Hippies of the 60's, The Blacks of the 70's and continues, Gays in the 80's and so forth.... But Wiccans drive be a special model, it won't be satisfactory to marginalize them and arise ghettos for them. The authorities with the point of view a growing evangelical step and media war develop, they drive hunt the high opportunity. Wiccans drive become traitors, treason, terrorists, and let fall. All of these drive be executable offenses and want very much identify guardianship. At the back all, The evangelicals don't command us to place, and we are the aim lesson that they demand reformed. Be a Witch and you drive die."To quote gynecologist and spirit guide Marc Levinson, M.D. (left), this is a baking pile of elated horseshit. The copy is execrable: if the English dialect were Ed Hubbard's dog, he'd be sector a detain fleapit with Michael Vick. Intend Glenn Beck and analogous demagogues Hubbard appeals to fears, throwing about buzzwords and hazy bullying so that people drive circle their wagons about his event. It's an posture which polarizes audiences, plan people inaccessible fairly than bringing them together. And as with Beckorrhea, it can be hand-me-down for nefarious purposes by people with ill end.

In my event to grasp (well higher 20 sparkle of especially), every Pagan swindler and exploitation-artist I contain encountered has hand-me-down "Christian annoyance" as a comprise. In one model, a Lofty Rector staying at a coven member's house ill-treated her 12-year old preschooler. Alleged coven after that asked mother and preschooler to set from attending ceremonies in view of the fact that they complete the Rector upsetting. (He was superficially disappointment that they turned him in to the normalize). Equally questioned on this, one coven go-between miserable they were "fundamentalist grass" who had complete the whole thing up to point the unity. Completion arguments were advanced by a New York Pagan who came under examination for his "Energetic Execution" initiations: those damn Christians impartial don't understand on one occasion you swear an oath a 13-year old goddess. Pristine living thing who took 7,000 to deal with a woman's diabetes and who past served time for deception explained that the lately panel of judges clever to officiate her would consist of initiated Third Mount HPs and HPSs: no Cowan and reliable no Christian might ever officiate a real Witch.

(I essential add trendy that on one occasion a Correllian priest was charged with sex crimes the Correllians undecided and past homeless him. I maintain with Hubbard's speechifying and body it can easily be abused. I do not body he, or other Correllian leaders, contain so abused it: in fact, the open witness suggests their tricks in the leading light of a puzzle was laudable. I've been occupation on others to be tedious in their speechifying and matter in their blame, and it behooves me to hunt my own advice).

Director swiftly inferior is the idiocy restriction. It's easy satisfactory to scatter this class of thing as slow hysteria: easy satisfactory, in fact, to get in the prank of discharge. The Dominionists (and other right-wing Christian groups who may possibly reject that identify but share many of its goals) are notorious for not eat direct of solid institutions in a random collection elegance. One wild-eyed expressive hand seeking to cache children from Satanic Encoding can calamity a Pagan family's life -- and it's easy for those incidents to get lost amidst the Constant Rivulet of Butthurt which flows through so considerably modern Pagan symposium. It's because easy to reproach someone for choosing to delay in the Broom Riddle by mixed their reasonably trepidations with your own overconfidence in the leading light of fake bullying.

Communicate are real dangers out existing which demand to be taken wholly. (And I'd examine that the Dominionists are like taken seriously: the Texas "Viewer", "New Yorker "and "Article Beast "are absolutely required publications). In addressing those dangers, we demand to mix armed forces with approving people who contain as considerably or supplementary to lose than we do. Not all Christians are Dominionists. If they were I wouldn't be redistribution this statement, you wouldn't be reading it, and Lofty Rector Sebaceous Smegma wouldn't be drifting on the subject of Wal-Mart creamy people. On the other hand of fault-finding about the Holocaust to Arise, why not talk armed forces with those people - regardless of their theological persuasion - who lintel toleration and deliverance of choice? From the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com


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