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15 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Quick Note: Why Are Th... · 3 replies · +21 points

I'll just count myself amongst those Gen X'ers who were never Christian in the first place and were not raised within the Abrahamic faiths.

To my regret, I did go through an unfortunate phase when I was younger and trying to find myself. I started "experimenting" with Christianity and hanging out with a "bad" crowd. I started thinking that this world was evil and that I needed to hate my mother and father (and my younger brother) in order to receive eternal life. I was judgmental, thought I had all the answers and I even started drinking the transubstantiated 'blood' and eating the flesh of Jesus. It was an ugly time for me and I thank the Gods that I found my way out. :-)

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Who's Responsible in S... · 0 replies · +1 points

Interesting that you would say this. Several days ago, I was talking with my husband about the Mohler case and I came to a similar conclusion. From the news reports I have read, it certainly bears some striking resemblance to SRA cases; recovered memories, molestation, bestiality, forced abortion, murder, etc. There's even the de facto involvement of a sub-altern religious group - an offshoot of the LDS.

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Theodish Republica... · 1 reply · +1 points

I am not Theod. Regardless, stop being a nithling who throws down vague accusations because you have an axe to grind. It is easy to be an internet "word warrior" and quite harder to be someone who actually does something, right?

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Theodish Republica... · 0 replies · +1 points

Mr. Rafferty:

Do you use your vast journalistic acumen to "expose" those who believe in talking snakes, zombie saviors, 'prophets' who marry six-year-old girls and/or other embarrassing components of the three "great" monotheistic faiths? I'd certainly be interested in knowing the names of *my* elected officials who actually believe in such malarkey. Please do your due diligence in outing these people in such a cursory, inept and disrespectful fashion.

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Theodish Republica... · 20 replies · +1 points

This is b.s. and you know it.

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Avoiding Pagan Dollars · 5 replies · +1 points

While I completely disagree with the religious discrimination, I do have to wonder at the "wisdom" of having this festival in this particular town. According to that bastion of accuracy, Wikipedia, Adamstown has a population of 221 people. Perhaps there would have been a less insulated and less homogeneous community that would have welcomed the revenue.

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Folkish Odinists Mista... · 0 replies · +1 points

Of course, all of these groups could be excused by a rather paternalistic appeal to the evils of post-colonialism, centuries of oppression, ignorance, bias, etc. But to single out European-based cultural religion just because some folks find it threatening is not, in fact, consistent with messages of tolerance in paganism. Instead, it is clear that tolerance is extended to *some* - i.e., we will tolerate your cultural exclusivity *if* you are a member of a historically oppressed group or a group *we* deem to be marginalized.

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Folkish Odinists Mista... · 2 replies · +1 points

Judaism is an exclusive religion wherein its adherents claim to be a "chosen people." The Hebrew Bible makes clear their case for ethnic superiority (Mal. 2:10-12, Ezra 10:18-44, Ezra 13:23-27, etc.), the Talmud also makes it clear when it problematizes the "goyim"/nations and, in current times, the oppression of the Palestinians by the Jewish State also makes this cultural/ethnic superiority clear. Still, to suggest that Judaism is not an ethnic religion that preaches its own distasteful brand of cultural superiority, genocide, moral superiority for the "chosen" and monotheistc exclusivity is completely at odds with its "revealed holy text" and modern-day ethic as a theocratic state. (Cont.)

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Folkish Odinists Mista... · 4 replies · +1 points

(As an aside, I really do enjoy argument and debate and my posts are not meant to convey personal disrespect and/or hostility to TWH readers, commenters or Jason. I am a gadfly that likes to challenge the status quo and prevailing thought. I, too find it distasteful that a group would care one iota what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedroom, whom they associate with, etc. I harbor no illusions - most racially-based groups would want nothing whatsoever to do with me; Jewish ex-husband, practicing witch, registered Democrat, etc.)

>> but the whole "other people do it too" argument usually falls flat in the face of the evidence.
No, it doesn't. It just doesn't conform to the "we are all one" sensibilities of Neopaganism. Anecdotal evidence is not really evidence, but I will say that every single Santero I have met here in So. Cal. believes emphatically that their religion is exclusive to those of a certain ethnic group and a shared cultural experience in the diaspora. But, again, this is anecdotal evidence and worth probably zero...(Cont.)

16 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Folkish Odinists Mista... · 14 replies · 0 points

As a folkish (no need to put it into quotes, thanks!) Asatruar, I wonder if readers of TWH would feign such disapprobation at the "racism" inherent in Judaism, Native American spirituality and some Santeros who dare to suggest that ethnic religions do, in fact, have an ethnic/genetic component.

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