WHY YOUR PARENTS hate YOU

Do our parents and grandparents hate Pagans because Hitler loved them??

You bet, says historian Malcolm Gaskill:  

"…the Nazis … endorsed Pagan ideals to highlight the church’s oppression of authentic volkish [folk] culture.”

All of which, says Malcolm, soured the postwar generation on all things Pagan -- including the notion that witches might have been benign people smacked with a smear campaign.

The idea that witches might have been cool dudettes and dudes was actually popular in the 19^th century.  For example, the French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874)  “repackaged” witches “as protorevolutionary heroines battling feudal oppression.”

However, warns Gaskill, scholars who think everyone tried for witchcraft was innocent of wrongdoing, are currently way out of style.


(from Witchcraft:  A Short Introduction.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Gaskill, Malcolm.  2010, pp. 101; 116).
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This radically fab image was done by Susan Sedon Boulet.  Bless you for all you've done for us, Susan.

terror at THE BOSTON MARATHON 2

Hmm.  Let’s see.  

Let’s count on one hand the number of religions that strut around town trumpeting, “Do religion our way, or we’ll cut you off at the knees”:

1. Christianity

2. Islam

3. ???

4. ????

5. ??

terror at THE BOSTON MARATHON

As long as we allow bloody and violent religions space for dancing on the planet, the world will be bathed in blood. 

Christians and Muslims alike praise their faiths as being stuffed full of love, peace and understanding -- despite eons of evidence to the contrary.

JUST FOR laughs

Question of the day: Why would any healthy human being dance with deities so dippity they can’t even laugh?

“In Christianity it is death that laughs, the devil laughs, and mermaids laugh; the Christian God never laughs. ‘Christ never laughed,’ the artist A.A. Ivanov remarked to Turgenev, while painting his Christ….” (from  Theory and History of Folklore, by the great Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp, 1984, p. 137). 

I mean, we all could be rock ‘n rolling with deities who understand that laughter rules:

“...In life, [according to ancient Pagan religion], we observe the command to laugh….  The thought goes still further: laughter is endowed not only with the power to accompany life but also with the power to call it forth” (Propp, p. 131). 

Case in point: the earth blooms in spring only because someone coaxed the Great Goddess Demeter into hanging up her troubles and laughing again!

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dissing THE "CHRISTIAN" EASTER BUNNY

A few days ago, Quigley the cartoonist caught Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly crying in his soup again.   This time it was about how Americans are dissing his beloved “Christian” Easter Bunny. 

My favorite line in Quigley’s little article: “OMG the Easter egg is all about sexy Pagan goddesses, and we are forcing it on children, Bill!” 

Go HERE to read the article. 

Keep THIS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEART:

To the Mother you are the most perfect entity ever created. 

No one can hurt you but you yourself.

Even if someone should spit in your eye,

this action comes first and foremost

from a place inside

them, not you.

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