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14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 1 reply · +2 points

There were cultures that raided their neighbors' villages specifically for sacrifices to appease their gods. The sacrifices had to be strong un-marred (i.e. crippled or severly wounded) adults prior to sacrifice. Of course the same culture routinely slaughtered their own people as sacrifices as well, but the 'outsider' sacrifice was used at certain times or to make certain entreaties of their gods.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 3 replies · +3 points

What about traditions that sacrificed their enemies, such as warriors defeated in battle. You could say Summerisle paganism saw Howie as a defeated enemy warrior of sorts.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 5 replies · +3 points

Worthy of sacrific for one.
He had to have some worth or he wouldn't be a good sacrifice.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 7 replies · +2 points

'Worthy' is a better word.

There are very few people in this world I consider to be 'bad' and even fewer I've found to be 'good'.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 9 replies · +3 points

The character is 'good' in the sense that he came to find a missing girl and even once he thought she was possibly dead stayed trying to find or help her if he could. He also stood up for his convictions in the face of adversary, lots of it. Alot of his rightous anger was due to the fact he was being pushed around and obstructed by an entire population. Had he turned out to be a total cad his life would not have ended as it did. The villagers had to test him and they and Summerilse himself gave him pleanty of oppurtunities to turn back. These were the traits that lead him to be sacrificed, not annoying christian-ness.

I do thing 'Wicker Man' is probably one of the better depictions of martyrdom, whatever the religion.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 0 replies · +2 points

It's nice to see the UN do something both positive and common sense-ical.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Native Beliefs on Tria... · 12 replies · +2 points

' "The Wicker Tree" better be good- it has such enormous shoes to fill, I doubt it can be done. But I'm going to be first in line to see it; the original Wicker Man is my all-time favorite movie. And, just like the Wicker Man, The Wicker Tree is about annoying Christians going into someone's village and preaching and pulling their privilege card- and like the Wicker Man, they come to a swift and painful end. Who couldn't like that? It's a theme that is practically therapy for modern Pagans who have had to endure so much. '

The annoying Christian in 'Wicker Man' was brought to the village for the expressed purpose of being sacrificed. He's ultimate fate was due more to the fact he was a good enough person to make a worthy sacrifice and not because he was annoying and preachy.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - More on that Air Force... · 0 replies · +2 points

It wasn't to you it was to Lokisgodhi.

However, if you go looking for war, you will find it.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - More on that Air Force... · 16 replies · +2 points

You sound an awful lot like thouse uber-rightoues war mongering christian pastor you seem to hate so much.

So far as I should get out of the way for those of you who can. Well, that sounds an awful lot like exclusionism if you don't mean it that way. If you believe in a holy war thats just fine, but don't drag the rest of us into it or call us less pagan or less spiritual because we don't agree with you. Most pagans are pagan for the main reason that they don't believe in dogma or orthadoxy and wish to take no orders from anyone other than themselves and their gods. Please don't insult me or my gods by calling us out on a war we have no intrest in.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - More on that Air Force... · 110 replies · +2 points

If the job at hand is bashing christians the same way we scream about their bashing us, then yes I think alot of us are to 'squeamish' for it. Personally I see myself as to well mannered to lump every memeber of a religion into the same group as the hate mongers.

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