Witches Haven

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I was asked to write an article on raising boys in the Pagan tradition.I don't think the one I wrote will be accepted.I'll probably have to re-write.

It wasn't very politically correct.It was as nice as I could manage, considering...Considering the unbelievable amount of bullshit being fed to newcomers to Paganism.

This whole Feminazi Goddess crappola. There was no civilizaiton based, solely, on Goddess worship.

It was DEITY worship. BOTH, not one. No matriarchal society. No fantasy Amazon land of milk, honey and perky boobs. The warriors were men, women stayed home, popped out soon-to-be warriors, if they didn't die in the process, of course.

There was no Similac or Isomil. No Platex Natural Nurses and those annoying plastic bags that usually rip when you were try to fit them on at 2:00 am.

Tough to be a mom now?

Imagine 500 - 1000 - 2000 years ago. Enough with the Goddess light and love crap already. The ancient archetypes were all about the duality of nature. Duality.

They were not lovely creatures, spreading sparkles and fairy dust. They could and would rip off the heads and any other body part of unsuspecting souls. Sometimes? Just for the "Hel" of it.

The crappola books fly off the shelves, while the worthy books, Triumph of the Moon for example, collect dust. Gods forbid a little of the light of truth be shone on a perfectly good fantasy.

So this whole goddess thing came about as an answer to alienation felt by women vis a vis the various churches/synagogues/temples.

Okey dokey - women weren't the only people alienated or harmed by organized religions. So were the men. Granted, it was slightly easier for male types but they were victimized right along side of women. I'm fed up with this Goddess garbage.

I'm fed up with a pseudo-religion based on tales, stories and lies.

I'm fed up with feminists using the guise of religion to justify their existence. Worse, using it as a weapon against men.

Gardner was full of shit. End of story. He took a large part of his stuff from Gnostic masses, Thelemic rituals, then dumbed them down to the nth degree and called it good.

Witches didn't exist. Nope, they did not. Cunning men and women existed but witches? No. More and more members of academia are looking into witch trials and the evidence there blows the whole "Burning Times" right out of the water. With a few notable exceptions in Germany, Switzerland and a couple of towns in France?

There was little in the way of witch burnings. Heretic executions?
Lots of those and in order to get rid of said heretics? Call 'em witches and be done with it.

So we have our Gardnerians - based on Gardner's creations - stolen and invented material. We have our Ravenwolf group - based on a little bit of this, a little bit of that and slap it between some colourful, glossy covers and BINGO, instant religion.

Even Crowley ripped his stuff off...ok, with the exception of the Liber Al vel Legis. I'm not entirely sure where that came from...the man did do drugs and his wife at the time, his Scarlet Woman was a raging alcoholic.

Not exactly what I'd call, unimpeachable sources of information.

To my mind - you wanna call your self a Pagan, for crying out loud, do us all a favour and read a bit of something not published by Llewellyn!!

Forget the rituals; forget when you are supposed to use the black or the white handled knife.The candle placement or the salt.

Do the PROPER research; stop wasting your time on inanities. Then, after you have a real grasp of what Paganism was, what it is, then move on from there.

Build an ethical, moral belief system on the NOW, not the "wish it were."

Its all fine and dandy to point fingers and laugh at the Christians, their Jeebus and how nothing is really PROVEN in the bible...Those who live in glass houses, especially, Neo-Pagan glass houses, should not throw stones. They'll bounce on back and hit you in the head.

Oh and the gem about how Pagans never killed anyone in the name of the Gods?

Oh yes, oh yes they did.

Does Rome say anything to you? How about the Berserkers? The Viking conquests ring any bells?

There's an interesting story about the Grauballe man found in a bog in Denmark. He would have been Pagan. Old Grauballe man had his throat slit from ear to ear and his legs broken, so he wouldn't run away.
Theory is, he was a Pagan sacrifice.

Sounds right up there with anything the Christians managed to come up with...

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