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The commercialization of Christmas has rightly bothered many Christians, but my take on the commercialization of Halloween is more benign. The past few decades have seen an extraordinary explosion of Halloween kitsch, usually of the cheapest plastic employing the crudest designs. No better statement about corporate America’s soulless lust to sell at any cost could…

This issue has repeatedly arisen on this blog, perhaps because people think, mistakenly, that I am an ‘ultra liberal.’  The issue arose most recently as a question for the special Beliefnet post I am developing.  I won’t use it for that purpose – there are more basic issues pertaining to Pagans as a spiritual community…

I have just returned from a wonderful road trip to Utah’s canyon and natural arch country in and near Arches National Park  and the Anasazi ruins in and near Mesa Verde National Park.    A wonderful trip it was, though my blogging was a little bit hit and miss.  Getting away from day to day…

Glenn Greenwald has a disturbing wrap up of Obama’s cover-up of Bush’s war crimes and his assertions, under his pretty rhetoric, that he can do the same.  Traditional Obama supporters such as the New York Times and The Nation are also calling him on his lies.  Liberals do not follow the führerprinzip as much as…

At Samhain we confront that mystery, and honor it.  In contrast to most earlier Pagan traditions, most NeoPagans do not spend much time honoring their ancestors.  Samhain is our most fitting opportunity to do so.  Usually we have pictures on our altars of those close to us who have died the previous year.  Certainly that…

Some people and what they call their ‘religion’ never change.  See the Wild Hunt for the details. With thanks to Cheryl.

The question of who is or is not a “real Christian” has come up in this blog.  It’s my own fault, for I’ve tried to distinguish between Christianity and the devil worship that masquerades under its name in the religious right.  Since people calling themselves Christians have been fighting, and on many occasions, killing one…

Thankfully genuine Christians are finally intervening.  I wish them well. And I hope there is never a case of moderns claiming to be Pagans acting as the ‘witch’ killers have, and that if it does happen, that our community intervenes more quickly.

I dream of the time when “Christians” so concerned with others’ sins begin paying attention to the travesties being done in their own name such as  killing kids for being witches . 

Sabbat. Maybe because I was born in early November. Maybe because I have always loved Fall over all other seasons. Even that quiet waiting period I learned to love in upstate New York, between when the leaves have fallen and the snow comes. Maybe because I have a contrarian streak buried too deeply to excise.…
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