Day 9 of 30 Days of Advocacy Against Witchcraft… I’m a lifelong nerd so this story From Sky News in Australia hits uncomfortably close to home: A 17-year-old high school student has been forced to drop out of her studies and seek refuge in a camp for women accused of witchcraft after fellow students said [...]
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It’s Spring. Most Wiccans refer to the Spring Equinox as Ostara, for a Germanic Goddess of fertility and new growth. Many Wiccans worship the triple aspect of the Great Goddess: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. At the Spring Turning the Maiden conceives and becomes the Mother; in nine months she gives birth to the returning sun [...]
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Just when I think Christians are a lost cause, some of them will make me smile. St. Matthews-in-the-City Church in Auckland, New Zealand, actually wants people to think! Imagine that! The church has a history of producing provocative billboards guaranteed to make stop and take inventory. This year’s offering is called “Mary is in the [...]
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Forgive me but I am full unto puking of “Christian spirit” right now. I am gagging on the religiosity of Survivor: Brandon Hantz is a headcase, and Coach has been willingly sucked into his drama–and Goddess knows Coach has always been a headcase and a drama queen in his own right. And a former coworker–or [...]
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The DC40 prayer campaign launches today in Hawaii: state by state the “40 Days of Light and Fire over D.C.” intends to change the District of Columbia into the “District of Christ.” The 51 day prayer guide is available for download on the DC40 website. The Dominionists intend to focus their will on the statue [...]
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Filed under: Christians, Curses, DC40, Halloween, Politics
The Minnesota Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective has published the contents of a newsletter written Prepare the Way Ministries in New Baden, IL. It is addressed to the Pagan Community: To the pagans, we write: We are well aware of the websites and blogs rallying to try and curse our effort and counter it. [...]
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This has been a difficult post for me… Recently Terry Gross, of NPR’s Fresh Air, interviewed author Rachel Tabachnick on Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation. Contrary to the title of the news segment “The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare,” Tabachnick stressed, Having the Southern Baptist background and growing up in the Deep South has [...]
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It’s official: Texas Governor Rick Perry is running for the GOP presidential nomination. Pagans were alarmed by his Evangelical prayer event “The Response” which took place in Houston on August 6th. Thirty thousand people attended in person; more tuned in by streaming video. The event was even covered on Twitter. Right Wing Watch has the [...]
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I can’t seem get away from the subject. Right Wing Watch is reporting today on another official endorser of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally in August. According to Wikiepedia, John Hagee is founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, TX. Cornerstone is a non-denomination megachurch with more than 19,000 [...]
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Thursday I wrote about Governor of Texas and Presidential Wannabe Rick Perry and the God-awful company he keeps. On August 6th he is appearing a big prayer event along with the likes of David Barton who filed a “friend of the court” document with the California Supreme Court, claiming that “paganism and witchcraft were never [...]
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