Newsbriefs: For no particular reason
TITLE:Hope for peace, love, understanding
LINK:http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/187293.html
Excerpt: I am constantly surprised at how many people visit the various pagan and Wiccan rituals and religious observances in Olympia expecting something from a Brothers Grimm tale. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when they leave disappointed and I never see them again.
Snarky goodness: Contains BIZARRE explanation of Wicca as a generic.
TITLE: The reckless arrogance of U.S. presidential politics
LINKhttp://xeniagazette.1upmonitor.com/main.asp?SectionID=17&SubSectionID=452&ArticleID=156174&TM=48325.35
EXCERPT:Is there a real difference between the foreign policy views of the two leaders in the Democratic presidential campaign and those of George W. Bush? Or is there is single American attitude toward the world, and fundamentally a bipartisan policy? Political blackmail plays a part in this, of course: Dissent from the common policy is open to attack as unpatriotic. But there is more to it than that.
WARNING: Political, not religion. I just thought it was interesting.
TITLE:Christianity is America's true faith
LINK:http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary%5Cwb/127460
EXCERPT:As a Christian, I think it's time to rid ourselves of this notion of freedom of religion in America.
Now that I have your attention, let me take a moment to make my case. Freedom of religion has become the biggest hoax placed upon the Christian people and on our Christian nation.
TITLE:Let Somalis Reclaim the Lost Glory of their Religion and Culture
LINK:http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Opinion_20/Let_Somalis_Reclaim_the_Lost_Glory_of_their_Religion_and_Culture.shtml
EXCERPT:Although in the traditional Somali society life was not a paradise for women, yet they were never degraded as people. Fathers never let torrents of tears to indicate the state of sadness for having a new baby-girl. Instead most of Somali parents saw in the birth of a child-girl the sign of good things to come; hence baby-girls were favoured with auspicious names such as Hodon, Warsan, Ebla, Deqa, Aurala, Aulo, Haadsan, Quman, Dhahabo, Meran, etc.
Freaky Fundie of the day:
TITLE:The New Paganism and the Culture of Death: "False gods always demand innocent blood"
LINK:http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6480
EXCERPT:Let no one imagine that the temptation to idolatry and paganism is a matter of the distant past when primitive peoples offered sacrifice to the sun or prayed to stone outcroppings and golden calves. Remember: false gods always demand innocent blood. The evidence that a culture is descending into paganism is always manifest in the body count. This was true in ancient Babylon and it is true in modern America. Who can deny that everywhere today the false gods of liberal secularism are exacting their toll of carnage?
Snark: Grrrrrreat. Now, on top of having bunnies, We Pagans now are responsible for Islam...