Tuesday, September 30, 2003
I was perusing my site stats, as I often do, just out of curiosity, seeing who is reading me, who is bookmarking me, what search engine phrases get y'all here... You know, that sort of thing. And I came across an interesting one the other day that has been rattling around in my head for a while. Someone got here by searching "wiccan opinions on christianity" or something like that.
Now my first thought upon reading that was "Dang! I didn't think any of them really cared WHAT we thought about them!" Then I thought "Well, ok good, ok fine. I have a good post up on the front page relating to that subject maybe this is someone who is sincere in their desire to be open"
But as I was driving back from getting my lunch I heard Paul Harvey mention something called the United Nations of Religion that is forming to talk about terrorism and religion. This piqued my curiosity so when I got back to the office I searched it on Yahoo. They must be calling it something else, cause I didn't find it. But I did find this:
Get US out! of the United Nations
I don't recommmend reading it because it about made me sick to my stomach with quotes like :
"Presented to the world as a mystical revelation, the UN Earth Charter is actually a diabolical blueprint for global government."
"The Charter is intended to become a universally adopted creed that will psychologically prepare the world’s children to accept the necessity of world government to save the environment. It is also an outrageous attempt to indoctrinate your children in the UN’s New Age paganism.
The Preamble of the Earth Charter states:
… we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature.... Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations."
(Now see, I like the Earth Charter. Always have. I, as most of you know, am a globalist. I think it's way past time we unified the earth as one body instead of all this nationalistic "We're better than you cause we say so" or cause we've been here longer or cause we eat more cheese in a year than you etc. It's just so stupid and wasteful of global resources.)
This page was written by a Dean of Religion at Midlebury in Vermont. Obviously a christian. This is why I and a lot of other pagans and atheists have such a problem with christianity. They
NEED to be in charge. They need to be right. They have always been of the opinion that they were the State Religion of the United States. And whenever they see that illusion threatened they go (the phrase that comes to mind is "ape shit" but that is so vulgar) bananas and run around screaming they are being persecuted and discriminated against.
Now I have friends who are christians. And they all say the same thing to me when I bring these kinds of people up. "They may call themselves christians but obviously they're not because you can see by what they say that they're not following the teachings of christ." Now I just went and did a search and came up with 145 christian denomenations that had sections on Yahoo. There are probably hundreds more than that. And each of them follows some form of the Hebrew bible. And each of them has a diffrent interpretation of the bible. And each of them knows for a fact that their interpretation is the correct one and that the others are mislead by false prophets and faulty translations and interpretations. All of them. From the Catholics to the Branch Dividians to the Jehovahs Witnesses. Now I don't know how all the denominations work. I was raised a Nazarene, married and ex-Catholic, attend a Unitarian Universalist church and I am very good friends with a Jehovah's Witness. But these are all as different from one another as night and day.
So let's say that there was a religious coup and christianity was made the State Religion. Which one? Catholicism? After what has been going on the last 2 or 3 years here? I doubt it. Baptist? I think the homosexuals would have something to say about that. Episcopalian? They're too busy splitting themselves up again over the gay minister. Nazarenes? You'd better hope not cause you'd have to shut down every night club, movie house, bar, theater etc. in the nation. No dancing, no going to movies, no drinking, women...toss out those jeans, you're wearing dresses from now on, no pornography and that includes Playboy, Penthouse and Cosmopolitan. Shut down the music industry, cause you can't make any music that doesn't glorify god. Trust me, I had to go through committee to be able to play "Why Me Lord" by Kris Kristofferson for the church talent contest. And definitely
NO OTHER RELIGIONS. They are all going to hell, you know.
So who? And who gets to decide? And what happens when the other denomination wins and gets to be the state religion. Then they get to come in and officially tell the rest of y'all that you're wrong and it will be sanctioned by the state!! They can have the Religion Police come into your sanctuary and force you to change your worship practices. They can tell Jehovah's Witnesses they have to take blood transfusions. They can tell Christian Scientists they have to see doctors. They can tell Catholics that confession just isn't enough anymore and that priests can get married and women can be priests. Or they can even tell them that they have to disband their congregations. "Sorry, your church doesn't follow the State Sanctioned religion so you have to shut down. We will open a State Church here next week and you will all have to attend that one."
No one thinks about this sort of thing when they stand on the steps of the courthouse with the Klansmen demanding the 10 commandments in a government building. Or when they go to court demanding the right to pray on a public address system.
Once again, people, I
highly recommend you read
A Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood. It gets less and less far fetched every day!
And that's what I have to say about what wiccan's feel about christianity. I don't speak for all pagans but I know I speak for quite a few. We're offended by christianity but we will defend to the death their right to religious freedom just as we will our own.
posted by Unknown
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