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06/09/2007

Ah Ha!

No, I haven't slipped into the Seventh Circle of Hell. Nor have a been kidnapped by insane beauticians for my lack of fashion sense. I've just been alternating between being very busy and being way avoidy.

 

There has been so much going on with school, and the Drunken Midgets starting school, and me spending two billion dollars on back to school stuff, it's just been crazy insane. It's making me even more insane than I usually am. I'm currently waiting for the men in white jackets to come remove me and place me in a room where the walls are covered with rubber. They should be here any minute. Until then I'll just bore you to death.

 

So, I don't remember if I mentioned it or not, but the youngest Drunken Midget found a baby robin who's mother had been squished and, being the friend and caretaker to all, she brought it home. And with me being a sucker for both children and animals, I let her keep it. Well, now the damn thing is full grown and flying and pooping all over my house. She especially likes to cuddle with me in my bed, forcing me to wash my damn sheets every other day. Of course, the youngest has tired of her and doesn't watch her, clean up after her, or feed her anymore, which leaves the care of this damn thing up to me. Go figure. So, now I have to find a Wildlife Refuge or something for this robin. And the worst part is that since it imprinted on me, I'm going to miss the little bugger.

 

Damn bird.

 

I registered for Fall Semester the other day and have Business Communications (how is that different from Business Writing, which I have now?), Composition, and Health Care Law and Ethics. Another thrilling semester of totally boring classes I'll have to drag myself every Tuesday and Thursday.

 

And of course because I'm so damn broke I haven't been able to pay Argosy what I owe them they won't transfer my records to MSB, so I have no idea what will transfer over. I'm so damn tired of people that keep harrassing me for my money. It's like, don't they realize that if I could, I would pay them in a New York Minute just to get them off my fucking back? But, no, they somehow think that I'm just rolling in the dough but refuse to pay them and call to harrass me a thousand times a day.

 

So, I've been reading a ton of books on Recovery and going to five meetings a week. It's eough to make a girl want to drink again, let me tell you. (Too late)

 

I've also been reading a bunch of books on Buddhism, which are pretty good, but I'm a little lost in regards to some of their doctrine. I'm hoping that the more I read on it, the more I'll understand it. Not that I want to be a Buddist but they have many techniques on how to tame the mind and be at peace that I think will be helpful to me. My mind is forever spinning and so out of control that I could really use the help.

 

So, I'm fairly sure that even though they have some principles that can help me, I don't want to be a Buddhist so that leaves me wondering what the hell I do want to be? By process of elimination I've decided what I don't want to be, so what the hell do I want to be? I'm thinking I should just start my own damn religion and call it the Heinz 57 Religious Experience, cuz I find something useful out of every religion I study. Why not take what I like out of all of them and start my own? Cuz, really, I haven't found one that works for me yet. Paganism is about as close as I can get to adhering to a particular religion, but even that leaves me wanting in some respects.

 

So, I'm kinda stuck spiritually and dissatisfied with life in general and am pretty ready to go on a shooting spree. I'm damn sure that if I eliminate certain people I will be doing the Universe a huge favor. But then, considering I'm Pro Gun Control, that might not work so well for me.

 

At least, for the most part I'm Pro Gun Control, but my ex best friend made a good point when she said, If you outlaw guns, then the Government will be the only one with the firepower, and we all know how fucked up the Government can be. So, I'm torn on that issue as well, like I'm torn on most things in life.

 

I just don't know what I believe anymore. Nor do I even know who I am. I feel lost and completely stuck.

 

So, that's where I've been lately, in case you were wondering.

 

Much love to all my buddies and friends out in cyberspace.

 

Laters!

 

Raven 

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26/03/2007

My Altar

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20/03/2007

Happy Ostara!

Today is the Wiccan Sabbat, Ostara, or the Spring Equinox. Today is celebrated in honor of the Goddess Ostara (Or Eostra) who is the Teutonic Goddess of spring and fertility. Wiccans dye eggs, and have egg hunts and eat chocolate bunnies. I know that the Christians do that too on Easter (they got the name from Ostara) but tell me, what the hell eggs and bunnies have to do with the crucifixion?

Nothing. Like Eddie Izzard says, the eggs are for fertility and the bunnies are for shagging. There were no bunnies at the crucifixion and they did not color eggs in honor of Jesus' gruesome death or supposed reserection (or however you spell it.)

This time of year is also a good time to buy a ritual broom for sweeping away negative energy in your ritual space.

 

Happy Ostara!

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05/08/2006

Exploring the Tarot

As I've been floundering and confused I decided to consult my Osho Zen Tarot deck and asked it for spiritual advice. This is what I came up with.

Card One: The Issue

Aloneness

I have to learn to view my aloneness as a positive thing and get along without the need for approval from family and friends. As I find my way I have to develop within myself the ability to make my way through the darkness without companions, maps, or guides. I have to find my own truth, noone can find it for me. Buddha said "Be a light unto yourself". I can't depend on anyone else, not even my bf to be that light for me.

 

 

 

Card Two: Internal Infulence That You Are Unable To See

Completion

The last piece of the puzzle is being placed in the third eye, the place of inner perception. Whatever has been absorbing my energy is now coming to an end. In completing it, I will be clearing the space for something new to begin. In the moment of completion I will be able to perceive the whole picture. I assume this means that at the end of this spiritual searching I will find completion. It also speaks of endings and new beginnings. I hope it doesn't mean that my relationship will end due to spiritual differences. But, whatever the case I need to learn to celebrate both the ending and the new beginning.

 

 

Card Three: External Influence of Which You Are Aware

Silence 

"Now is a very precious time. It will be easy for you to rest inside, to plumb the depths of your own inner silence to the point where it meets the silence of the Universe." Now is the time for me to come home to myself. The understanding and insights I come to in these moments of silence will manisfest later on, in a more outgoing phase in my life. Again, I have to look within myself, in the silence to find that which I seek.

 

Card Four: What is Needed For Resolution

Thunderbolt

I'm feeling pretty shaky right now, as though the ground was rocking beneath my feet, my entire sense of security is being challenged--No Kidding!--and my natural tendancy is to cling to whatever I can. I must let the earthquake happen and let go of everything because this inner earthquake is essential to my being. If I allow it I will emerge from the wreckage stronger and more availabe to new experiences. After the fire, the earh is replenished; after the storm, the air is clear.

 

 

 

Card Five: The Resolution

Adventure

Full of trust, I walk out of the darkness of the forest into the rainbow of light. Step by step, I will be drawn by my oun sense of wonder into the unknown. "Whenever we move into the new and unknown with the trusting spirit of a child, innocent and open and vulnerable, even the smallest things of life can become the greatest adventures." So, I must move forward with trust and walk into the Unknown. That is very scary to me, I have major trust issues, but I guess as I go through all this I'll be able to get over them.

 

 

So, that's what the Universe had to say to me. And it makes sense, and makes me feel better knowing that I'm on the right path. There may be some earth shattering experiences ahead, but I will come out of it stronger in the end. I just have to trust and look within to find what I seek.

I think the hardest part for me will be learning to view my aloneness as a positive thing. I've felt so lonely lately but I have to go back to being able to "celebrate the freedom that solitude brings." I used to see it that way, but I've been alone for so long and I'm getting really sick of it. Apparently I'm going to be alone through this so I'd better get used to it.  

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04/08/2006

Confused

I've tried to post this three times now but my computer petulantly refuses to obey. So here is my fourth attempt at this post.  

I'm feeling very lost and confused spiritually. Twice now I thought I had found all the answers. The first time with Christianity and the second with Paganism and Buddhism. But lately I feel like I'm missing something. I wonder if I made the wrong decision when I turned away from the Christian religion. But can I go back to where I've been? I like the person I've become; can I be true to myself and be true to the Christian ideal as well? If not, then where does that leave me?

Of course my bf wants me to come back to Christ. His faith is unshakeable and he firmly believes Christianity to be the only way to salvation. I envy him for that faith. Yet I don't know if I can embrace it once again. When I was a Christian I was a fundamentalist and that way of thinking is so rigid, so intolerant, so zelous, so blind. It was almost like being brainwashed. Is it possible to be a Christian and not be so extremely fanatical about it? I mean, if you believe the words of Christ, the Bible is the divine word of god and how can you claim to be a Christian if you don't follow everything written therein?

And I have a lot of trouble with what is written in the Bible. I could go on and on about it here but I won't. Those out there who know me have read all about my issues with Christianity and they know where I'm coming from. For those who don't know feel free to read my archives under 'Blasphemy' and 'A Touch of the Divine' and that will tell you all you need to know. The problem is I can see both sides of the argument for and against Christianity. I've argued with myself, gone back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and I'm still no closer to finding what I truly believe. 

Part of me misses the relationship I had with God when I was a Christian. The other part of me is screaming "My Goddess, are you insane?" I feel like I'm being torn in two. I don't know what to believe anymore and I don't know how to find the answers that I seek. My bf keeps telling me to have faith but I don't know if I can have the same blind faith that he has. I don't know if I have it in me. Yet a part of me is still terrified that I've made the wrong decision and will be damned to hell for all of eternity.

I feel so lost and don't know how to resolve my confusion.  

I wish I could just be a Pagan Christian. It would make things so much damn easier.

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01/08/2006

Lammas

This is a daily email I recieve from the DailyOm. It is about Lammas and I figured I would post it here as I am too tired to make up my own post about it. Enjoy.

 

August 1, 2006
A Festival Of Transition
Lughnasa And Lammas

To ancient peoples, the yearly harvest was a reflection of the human cycle of birth and death. The reaping of food crops was associated with the spiritual abundance that sustained the soul. Yet harvest times were also a portent of autumn's chill and winter's harsh frosts. The Celtic peoples of centuries past acknowledged the season's first harvest with the festival of Lughnasa, the feast of the first fruits. Celebrated on August 1, it marked the midpoint between Beltane in May and Samhain in November, and symbolized a turning point in the lifecycle of Mother Earth. It was both a joyous celebration of plenty and a solemn wake for the decline of the potency of the sun god Lugh, from which the festival takes its name.

What we know of Lughnasa, known also as Lammas, or the celebration of loaves, has survived in the rituals that are still practiced to this day. It is associated with grain, fruit, flowers, water, and soil, and celebrated atop summits as well as in the depths of holy wells. Traditionally, people assembled on hilltops to pick berries and engage in mock battles-the profusion of the gathered fruits and the results of the mock battles were believed to predict the outcome of the yearly harvest. Many visited ancient wells whose healing abilities were thought to be most potent on Lughnasa. Grand fairs and feasts were held, during which a portion of the newly picked grains were baked into man-shaped loaves commemorating the coming demise of Lugh. The descendants of those who first celebrated the summer harvest keep the traditions of Lughnasa alive in the fairs and sporting events that take place on August 1 throughout Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales.

Lughnasa is primarily a festival of transition and thus presents a wonderful opportunity to consider how our lives have changed in the recent past. If you choose to celebrate the harvest by baking bread, adding ingredients you have reaped from your own garden will reinforce your connection to the earth. Consume your bread with loved ones while openly sharing stories of the new beginnings you are currently celebrating and the endings you are mourning. As you honor the cyclical nature of existence, reflect upon the fact that just as there is joy to be found in the sowing and reaping, each of life's phases is worthy of celebration too.

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01/05/2006

Jesus

Apparently Jesus has a website and it's a pretty good one too, considering.  You should check it out.  OH, and Satan is also invovled in his website, apparently they are great pals.  Who would have known?

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Happy Beltane!

Yes, today is the Pagan Sabbat, Beltane, the last of the Spring Festivals.  It is the halfway point between spring and summer and a celebration of life, fertility, sexuality, and nature's renewal.  On Beltane, the veil between the two worlds is at its thinnest, just like at Samhain.  It is also a time when the faeries are active after their winter slumber.  Many people leave offerings and wishes for the fairies on Beltane eve.  If you would like to learn more about Beltane there is a good article on the Witches Voice online. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Beltane, blessed be.

Laters!
Raven

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16/04/2006

Happy Easter!

No, I do not celebrate the Christian Easter, I am just celebrating the Pagan holiday Ostara (or Eostra) a little late this year.  It falls on the Vernol Equinox which is actually on March 21, but this year it was just more convenient to celebrate this weekend, and I do spend time with my family on Easter, who is Catholic, as I respect their religious holidays.  The Christians actually stole this holiday (once again) from the Pagans and appropriated it for their own use.  Think about it.  What do bunnies and eggs have to do with the crucifixion (or however you spell it)?  NOTHING!  The Easter Bunny was not present at the crucifixion and the Apostles did not hand out chocalote eggs at the Last Supper.  Like Eddie Izzard said, bunnies are for shagging, eggs are for fertility; it's the Spring Festival celelbrating new life and rebirth!  

And, did you know that at the exact moment of the Vernal Equinox you can balance a raw egg on one end because of the change in the Earth's tilt?

And, coming up on April 30 is one of my favorite Pagan holidays, Beltane.  This is a good night to leave an offering to the fairies and a little wish that you would like to have come true.  Kids can even wish for little things and the parents can leave them on the plate on which the offering to the fairies had been placed, telling the kids that the fairies granted their wish. 

Laters!

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17/01/2006

Thoughts

"We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us, and the key here is constant familiarity.  The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, and the more you develop them, the more powerful they become."

From The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation

The best thing I ever did for myself was to replace my negative thoughts with positive ones.  When I started wishing everyone around me dead over and over in my head, I would switch to a different mantra:  May all beings live in peace.  And when I started thinking about how much my life sucked and how much I hated it I would replace that with: I'm happy, healthy and whole.  Over and over I repeat it, just like if I were ruminating over how sucky the Universe can be.  It didn't change my mood right off the bat, but I found that eventually I wasn't thinking all those poisonous thoughts nearly as much and my overall mood improved.  I still struggle with negative thoughts, but they don't come as often, and I can replace them with positive thoughts much more quickly.

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22/12/2005

Murder, Rape and Pillage the Christian Way!

Good afternoon all!  Thank you for coming back to listen (well, read) as I rant about why Christianity is not the one true religion.  There are a lot of Biblical verses that make me wonder how Christians can claim that their god is a perfect, loving god.  Here are just a couple of them:
 
Deuteronomy 2:34:  ‘We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.’
 
Leviticus 31:17:  The Hebrews were instructed to kill every man, woman, and child, except for the virgin girls.  Those they were allowed to keep to rape whenever they pleased.  In the Bible god used the phrase, ‘you may keep them as wives’ but they were taken against their will after their parents were slaughtered.  If that’s what god intended marriage to be I want no part of it.
 
Additionally, these verses also illustrate great hypocrisy on the part of god and his children.  What happened to the Commandment “Thou shall not kill.”  Does that only apply to those that share your religious faith?   In looking at god’s instructions to the Hebrews in Biblical times, it seems that not a single Commandment was intended to apply to anyone other than the Hebrews.  They were instructed to steal from the Egyptians when fleeing Egypt after the Passover.  They were instructed to slaughter and completely destroy all evidence of the neighboring nations and their religions.  Is god so insecure that he has to kill everyone who doesn’t believe in him?  I just don’t get it.  How can anyone claim that this is the only true god?

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21/12/2005

Blasphemy!

Ello!  Happy Yule!  Yes, today is the Winter Solstice, known to Pagans as Yule.  It is the day we celebrate the rebirth of the God and the return of the sun.  After today, which is the shortest day of the year, the days will start getting longer.  My children and I will have our Yule celebration tonight, and we will also celebrate Christmas with our extended family, who are all Catholic.  My youngest is trying to get me to throw Chanukah in there too, but I think two celebrations are plenty. 

Okay, so here is a little more of The 25 Days of Christmas, Pagan Style...

Let us take a moment to look at Jesus and the Christmas story:
 
**The name Christ is the Aramaic form of the name Krishna and the stories of Jesus and Krishna are strikingly similar.  Both contained The Star of the East and the wise men, and both men were born on the same day.  The story of Krishna, however, was widely circulated five centuries before the birth of Jesus.  Many scholars say that the stories of Jesus were rightly attributed to Christ (Krishna) but wrongly attributed to Jesus.
 
**Phrases such as ‘The Word brought to Earth’ or ‘The Word made flesh’ originated in the Pagan religions and was stolen by the Christians to describe Jesus.
 
**The exchanging of gifts on Christmas was also a pagan tradition long before the Christians adopted the Christmas story.  Pagans exchanged gifts celebrating the rebirth of the God on the Winter Solstice as a baby to be nurtured by the Mother Goddess thousands of years before the three Magi traveled to Bethlehem.
 
One repeatedly finds that the stories and metaphors used are remarkably similar from religion to religion; why then do Christians claim that their religion is different from all others, thus being the one true religion?

 

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18/12/2005

Mary's Virginity, Or Lack Thereof...

Good morning everyone!  Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season and thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Twenty Five Days…Pagan Style.  I've been so busy I've missed quite a few days of blasphemy, so my apologies for that.  I have a few minutes before the kids crawl out of bed and create the usual state of perpetual chaos so I thought I'd be productive.  Goddess knows I won't accomplish anything after they wake up!
 
So then, let us dive right in.  The crux of the entire Christian religion is the claim that Mary was a virgin, thus the miraculous birth and proof that Jesus is god right?  Okay, now that you’re all with me on that, what if I were to tell you that Mary actually was NOT a virgin?  If this were true it would then seem that Christianity is based on nothing more than a mistranslation.
 
You see, in the original Hebrew the word used to describe Mary was ‘almah which simply means a woman yet to marry.  The Hebrew word for virgin is betulah, and the word ‘almah was never used to describe a virgin woman in Hebrew.  Yet, when translating the Hebrew into Greek they used the Greek word parthenos which means virgin.  Some people believe this to be an accident, but considering the fact that Jesus was not even deified until 500 years after the crucifixion I think it is much more likely that it was a cleverly calculated mistranslation.  Either way, the miraculous ‘virgin’ birth of Jesus turns out to be not so miraculous after all.

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13/12/2005

Blasphemy--I have no idea what day it is!

I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping up with The Twenty Five Days of Christmas, Pagan Style, as you might have noticed.  So, here is another day of blasphemy for ya.

    First, has anyone heard of the story of Lot?  For those of you unfamiliar with the Old Testament, Lot was the main character in the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra.  Let me set the stage:  The aforementioned cities are rife with sin and immorality and eventually god catches wind of this.  So he sends a couple of male angels to check out these rumors and see if they are true (I thought he was omnipotent?). 

    These angels show up at Lot’s door and he welcomes them into his home, but ::gasp:: the men of the city attempt to break down Lot’s door in order to rape them, (this story is often used in defense of demonizing homosexuality but really had more to do with gang rape), and he heroically prevents the angels from being raped.  Being an ex-Christian I can attest to the fact that fundamentalist preachers often recite this story, lauding Lot as a great hero.  However, what they leave out of the sermon is how Lot prevented god’s angels from being raped:  He offered the gang of lustful, would be rapists his virgin daughters to rape instead of god’s messengers. 

    Incidentally, the angels possessed enough of their own power to protect themselves as illustrated by the fact that when the angry mob refused his daughters the angels struck them with blindness and they couldn’t find the door.  Apparently they then got sick of feeling for it and went home. 
 
    I can imagine that some fundamentalists would argue that god only allowed Lot to offer his daughters up because he knew that the mob would not rape them, but the fact that god deemed it acceptable for Lot to do so without even a passing reprimand for how wrong it was still stands.  It clearly illustrates the Biblical principle that women are considered to be the property of whatever male she lives with, and those men can do with ‘their women’ whatever they please. 
 
    Secondly, there are a couple more scriptures I would like to share lest my opinion be discredited due to a lack of New Testament references.  Both of these scriptures appear in the supposed ‘New Covenant’ of god (Doesn’t that imply that he didn’t do it right the first time?):
 
I Corinthians 7:39:  “A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.”  So, what they are saying is that if a woman leaves a man because he beats her (or any other reason), or he leaves her, she is bound to him by law until he eventually goes belly up?  And men call us the ball and chain!  Yeah, whatever.
 
I Corinthians 11:7-9:  “For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.  For man is not from woman, but woman from man.  Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.” 
  

    Uh-huh.  If god truly intended me to blindly and silently serve some man, he (or she) wouldn’t have gifted me with such intelligence and an irrepressible need to be heard. 

 

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08/12/2005

Blasphemy--Day Seven

Yes, I know, I missed a day so SUE ME!  Or ask me arse, whichever you prefer... I've got finals going on and the mess has taken over my house and I just can't take it no more, no more, NO MORE!  Okay, now that I've gotten that off my chest, welcome to another installment of The 25 Days of Christmas, Pagan Style.  Now, I posted this once before a very long time ago so my apologies to you faithful readers who have already read it, but I figured I'd repeat it for my newer readers.

So everyone knows that the Bible declares Jesus to be God right?  Well, what most people don't know is that Jesus was not deified until 500 years after his death.  The Roman Emperor Constantine, a lifelong Pagan, decided that the church would have unrivaled power if it claimed to be the only way to salvation.  So, in order to solidify his political power through the church, he destroyed all the gospels that portrayed Jesus as human and embellished those that seemed to allude to his divinity.  Thus, the deification of Jesus was merely a political decision to increase the power Rome held over the masses. 

Laters!

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06/12/2005

Blasphemy--Day Five

Welcome back one and all to The 25 Days of Christmas, Pagan Style!  So, is it just me or is the Christian God a bit misogynistic?  Check out these verses:

Leviticus 5:29:  If a ‘spirit of jealousy’ comes upon a man and he thinks his wife may be cheating on him, he is told to take her to the priest who will administer poison to her.  If she survived she was innocent, if she died she was guilty.   I wonder how many men poisoned their wives over nothing more than jealous insecurity because God commanded it.
 
I Corinthians 14:34, 35
   “Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.  And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for women to speak in church.”
 
I Timothy 2:12-14
   “And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.  For Adam was formed first, then Eve.  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression.”
 
Ephesians 5:22-24
   “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body.  Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.”
 
I Peter 3:1
   “Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives.”
 
And, last but not least:

I Peter 3:5
   “For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.”
 
Now, keep in mind that Sarah obeyed Abraham by lying; telling everyone that she was Abraham’s sister, for Abraham feared that the king would kill him to steal his beautiful wife.  So, Sarah lied to save Abraham’s cowardly ass even though it meant she was sent to the king’s harem.  
 
All throughout the Bible, women are referred to as chattel and property.  Despite god’s claim to love all of his children, it is quite apparent that he held a very low opinion of women.  I refuse to worship a god that sees me as ‘less than’ because I don’t have a penis.

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04/12/2005

Oops, Missed a Day

You'll have to forgive me for not posting on '25 Days of Christmas, Pagan Style' yesterday.  I haven't been feeling well and just couldn't drag myself to the puter.  Before I begin today though, I have to relate to you an incident that happened last night. 

Going crazy from being trapped in this house from being sick, I decided to go to the local used bookstore last night just to get out for a bit.  As usual, I was in the Wicca/Witchcraft/Eastern Spirituality section.  Next to that section is the Christian section and there was a group of obnoxious, self righteous Christian's--the kind that want to bully you into following their God.  So they're over there reading scriputre out loud-really loud--for the whole store to hear.  When they got tired of that they decided to come into my section. 

They start talking about how Wicca is from the Devil and one guy accidently brought home a Wicca book once and when he started reading it he began itching and convulsing so he knew it was 'of the Devil'.  I'm just sitting there, ready to open up the Voodoo kit on the shelf next to me and start sticking pins all willy nilly, then one guy goes into how he took a class for a whole semester about Wicca and Eckenar and blah, blah, blah.  Meanwhile I'm thinking that class must have been taught by a talking monkey cuz none of his 'facts' were actually factual.  By this time I wanted to drop to my knees on the floor screaming 'Hallelujah, hallielujah, I've seen the light and turn away from the forces of Satan.  PRAISE THE LORD!"  And when they all started praising and praying I'd look at them and go "As if."  And walk away.  But, I didn't cuz I just wasn't feeling well, but it would have been reallly funny.

Okay, on with the blasphemy.  

Having briefly mentioned the Ten Commandments the other day in our discussion of Dionysos, I thought we could expand upon that theme today.

Many religions feature some type of story concerning a character with a code of laws written in stone.

*King Minos of Crete descended from Mt. Dicta with laws inscribed in stone

*Hammurabi of the Babylonians received his laws written in stone from the god Shamash

*Zoroaster of the Persians came down from the mountain Ahura-Mazda with his laws in stone after his god appeared to him amid thunder and lightning (exactly like Moses did in the Bible)

 

The actual commandments themselves were also stolen from the Pagans.  The Ten Commandments written in the Old Testament are nearly identical  to the Sumerian