Posted on 07/26/2005 5:04:45 PM PDT by Antioch
Good job Berzerkely Baalians! I'm convinced!
The one with the green face? I think she wants me...
It's nice because all of these folks get to wear their Renaissance Fair costumes year-round.
Wow, what a good looking bunch of ....well whatever. Makes me wanna become a tree huggin butt pluggin goddess worshippin pinko commie baal bustin fruit of the fifth order after the communal sunset orgy master with all of em.
hallelujah, holy sh@t where's the tylenol?
Captain Kirk beat you to it.
Cute, but do you want to be the legal guardian of that little planetoid she's about to give birth to?
My goodness - the average dress size there has got to be around 24. Something tells me that there aren't too many vegans in the group.
Ya know, this was kinda funny when a teenager and it was for fun & shock value. I think this bunch has way too much chemical intake.
I just don't know about the witch drill team with the dollar store brooms... Really low class gals!
Looks like a Legion of Bull Dykes!
(Seems like a safe enough claim in that crowd...)
The one on the left, is she a spittoon?
STOP IT, STOP IT, THAT'S SILLY.
Interfaith? Can I bring my Bible?
LOL! Then you'd better RUN!!
Now we know where Waldo is.
Christians and Pagans agree that the Wiccan community is growing at an exceptional rate, and is projected to be the Third Largest religion by 2012.
(PRWEB) April 21, 2005 -- Earth Day celebrations are seen as a way to recognize the need to save and protect Mother Earth. For some that image is not simply a slogan or phrase but the center of their worship and religious life. Known as Wiccans, aka Witches and Pagans, Nature worshippers are becoming more numerous and their concepts are emerging to challenge traditional rules of society based on biblical law. They are emerging to become a major force in spiritual communities, having increasing number of adherents, and expecting the same rights and privileges as Christians and other faith practices of the United States.
Steve Wohlberg, in his book the Hour of the Witch, was the first to state the conclusion that we are now in a turning point and that Wicca would emerge as the third largest faith in America and would directly challenge Christian ideals of church and state. This is collaborated by leading Pagan leader and researcher, Phyliss Currott stating the Wiccan community is doubling in size every 18 months. That is a predicted future community of twenty million or more members in the United States by 2012. By both Christian and Pagan standards that would be a significant shift in American society..."
Well isn't that the goal? To emulate the form of the sacred prehistroic Venus of Willendorf by partaking in the sacraments of Haagen Dazs and Mrs. Fields? 
Attention seeking behavior.
later pingout.
And a more attractive group would be hard to find! :-)
Well, "pagans" certainly seem a little strange these days, but then all our ancestors were pagans before they became Christians.
And regardless of what we may personally think of these folks, they never flew a plane into a building and killed 3,000 innocent people, nor are they suicide bombers, nor do they threaten to convert the entire world by force.
Get my drift?
" Captain Kirk beat you to it."
wait a minute...Cap'n Christopher Pike I think? He got the green gal.
Yeah, for dinner.
This pagan parade appears to lack a contingent of followers of classical Greek and Roman paganism.
Of course, those pagans also believed in such things as natural law, morality, justice, honour, virtue, self-control and reason.
This motley crew of effete anti-intellectual relativists wouldn't have lasted ten minutes in Athens or the Roman Republic.
Looks like "Burning Man" has been relocated from Black Rock to Berkeley.
*Excepting white heterosexual Christian males, of course.
MEOW! :-)
Be careful when you come up for air, don't want you choking on the foam.
pigs need a life, too.
Haloween every day!
Shattuck Avenue's best!
The third largest religion in North America.
Sure.
Doubling every year projected out to some distance in the future doesn't take into account that the people subscribing to said faith don't necessarily double every year. There will be a leveling off. Same as the levelling off for the Hare Krishnas, or Scientologists, or Buddhists, or any other such.
The only way to drastically increase the numbers of a faith is: by the sword (Islam), by evangelization (Catholic / Christian), by a dramatic shift in popular culture and thought (atheism /agnosticism), or by dramatic immigration (Catholic and to lesser extent Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism).
Judging by the photos of the Wiccan types, it's unlikely that these are going to procreate overly much, so their potential numbers are probably extremely limited.
To quote the Tancredo-phobes - "The muslim fanatics will have a field day with this"
For Baal's sake, please tell me that this parade wound up at a Weight Watchers location!!!
True. But I find it so strange and such a sign of the times that grown adults give themselves over body, mind and soul to a sad little fantasy world which began with a few pulp NOVELS from 60s until today where they swear it was the original religion of humanity, repressed by the murderous Catholics during the "Burning Times" in medieval Europe. There's little if any historical or paleographic scholarship to support their collective psychoses.
Exactly.
"Modern" day paganism is based on very little knowledge of the original rites. It sort of like "paly-acting" I suppose.
That's dress size.
They're here, they're fun, the of consenting age, so live and let live. But I DO have a problem with psuedo-religious groups or rainbow sashers attacking the church with propaganda or agendas. Ever had a conversation about Christianity with a "pagan"? I've found them to be delusional and incredibly hateful toward our Lord.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
FYI. Can you imagine actually witnessing this in person? These people are not really pagans in the sense of having any kind of tribal tradition. They're just play acting, playing with fire, as self conscious as all getout, imagining that the world really gives a (deleted) about them, their weird attire, and attention demanding antics.
Oh, and Wicca was invented by a British guy named Gardner, out of various traditions, fairy tales, and whole cloth - primarily so he could get nookie.
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Note: What these people don't realize is that God does indeed exist, and that everyone is subject to His rules and laws, whether they "believe" in Him or not.
Maybe part of their "fairy tale" games is getting to imagine they're attractive. Where else but fantasyland???
Why is the central committee of the Alameda county Democratic out marching on the street?
What are they protesting this time?
Actually in Berkeley, these people would be called conservatives.
should be "Democratic party"
"The one with the green face? I think she wants me..."
Looks like Mars knocked her up...
The real ugliness is the consciousness which seeps out through the eyes and facial expressions.
These people imagine that whatever they imagine is real.
I wonder what the dues are for a member of the 'Spiral Path'? Does being a member of the 'Spiral Path' mean you just walk around in ever tighter circles?
When you get near the end of the 'Spiral Path', are you so dizzy that you don't know what the frick is going on?
So many questions for the acolyte...
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