Wiccan Controversy Tests Military Religious Tolerance
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/june99/wicca08.htm
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starredon3
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Seems like some of these boys have forgotten what they are fighting for. Voice your protest of anti-patriotism.. . Call Rev. Jack Harvey's New Tabernacle Baptist Church at 254-554-2920.
- 1 year ago
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starredon3
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zHellas
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starredon3:
Who are you against here? The people against the Wiccans, or the Wiccans themselves?
- 1 year ago
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zHellas
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starredon3
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zHellas:
Since you put it so eloquently, "the people" obviously.
- 1 year ago
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starredon3
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zHellas
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starredon3:
Wasn't that obvious. I couldn't tell who you were talking about.
- 1 year ago
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zHellas
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starredon3
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zHellas:
I posted the telephone number of a Baptist church.... I kinda thought that was self-explanatory.
- 1 year ago
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starredon3
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Nephwrack
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so what? i know for a fact that there are satanist marines.
- 1 year ago
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Nephwrack
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versasrev
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Oh, for proof of my earlier statement check this link and photo.
http://www.papermag.com/2007/04/equal_rights_for_dead_wiccans.phpSo yeah, I think that's the nail in the coffin for that one.
- 1 year ago
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versasrev
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DisownCashValue
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This article is FROM 1999!!!! For fucks sake?
- 1 year ago
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DisownCashValue
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H2O_4U
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Not suppressed, the military is one of the most useless and abusive organizations created by man,
I think it's time to end the military! - 1 year ago
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H2O_4U
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trut
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Yawn, witches, yawn, sun goddess, yawn.
Hey when was the last time you guys put up a new chanting ground or stonehenge? Few thousand years?
Man, you guys are plenty lazy. - 1 year ago
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trut
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Nephwrack
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trut:
and your response is plenty ignorant in my opinion. ever read a history book? the christians subjugated the druids as soon as they reached the british isles. no i wont call it wicca, i call it druidism, cause wicca had it's origins in victorian america.
edit: this is what wiki says...
Wicca (pronounced [ˈwɪkə]) is a Neopagan religion and a form of modern witchcraft. It is often referred to as Witchcraft or the Craft[1] by its adherents, who are known as Wiccans or Witches. Its disputed origins lie in England in the early 20th century,[2] though it was first popularised during the 1950s by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft", and its adherents "the Wica".[3] From the 1960s the name of the religion was normalised to "Wicca".[4]
- 1 year ago
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Nephwrack
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cztheday
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From an encyclopaedia entry on Wicca: "Their main rule of behavior is the Wiccan Rede which forbids them from harming people, including themselves, except in some cases of self-defense."
I can see why the military would be against the Wiccan code. I just don't see why anybody else would be.
- 1 year ago
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cztheday
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Peacey
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I didn't see the date on this story when I posted it.
- 1 year ago
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Peacey
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versasrev
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Peacey:
It's embarrassing, but it happens to us all.
- 1 year ago
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versasrev
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JanforGore
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versasrev:
I'm going to try that too. ;-)
- 1 year ago
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JanforGore
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versasrev
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Wicca is a recognized religion by the Department of Veteran Affairs, and I believe the D.O.D. Hell, you can even get the emblem for it on your tombstone now in military cemeteries.
- 1 year ago
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versasrev
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Sparky2U
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Wicca is Witch Craft idiots. Has nothing to do with anything remotely good in this world.
- 1 year ago
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Sparky2U
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Stoneyroad
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Sparky2U:
We train these people to invade, bomb, shoot & kill, but you think how they pray is not remotely good.
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Stoneyroad
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ozoneocean
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Sparky2U:
"witchcarft"? lulz.
That's a nonsense word- used by Christians to justify persecution. Used by Wiccans to and give themselves historical legitimacy.
Let the Wiccans be man.
- 1 year ago
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ozoneocean
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toyotabedzrock
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If you wanna see something interesting search Google for "Pagan Pride", hint it is not a LGBT event. But there main site gives the gay rights movement credit for the naming.
For more fun append abbreviation for your state.
Apparently NJ schools recognize Pagan holidays now too, must have missed that news.
http://www.examiner.com/domestic-witchery-in-national/new-jersey-state-board-of-...I have to wonder if perhaps religious loonies think that these are LGBT events. It might explain some of there irrational fear.
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toyotabedzrock
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toyotabedzrock
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That article was from 1999!
- 1 year ago
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toyotabedzrock
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Peacey
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toyotabedzrock:
yea. I didn't see that until I posted it.
I wonder how this went? - 1 year ago
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Peacey
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UtopianSky
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The pagans practice their beliefs,
and the Christians call them satanic and what them stopped.History keeps repeating itself over and over again...
And they call Muslims intolerant, when they are two sides of the same coin.
- 1 year ago
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UtopianSky
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chasingame
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It is pretty sick that so many Christians expect the religious freedoms that this country has to offer while they try to strip so many freedoms from so many other groups. Of all religions I am starting to think that Christianity is the worst.
- 1 year ago
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chasingame
