Posted on 05/08/2014 2:51:14 PM PDT by NYer
Thank you very much, my friend. Wish I could do that. I have no skill on a tablet.
“Apparently it’s not just a thing of “ages past”, as you still think you have the right to tell others what they can and can’t do. And if a handful of brats can affect your ability to practice you faith, that says more about your insecurity than anything they are doing to you.”
Dragging Aunt Sally about is not going to cut it.
“Finally, the real irony is the church invented Satanism from whole cloth to demonize pagans, and now you are incensed when people mimic it.”
I’ll just re-post that as one of the sillier ideas.
BTW, Satanists are not pagans. They are Satanists. Wiccans, anamists, and a whole host of other religions are pagan.
Satanists worship Satan.
For some reason, your name did not post.
See above.
“Finally, the real irony is the church invented Satanism from whole cloth to demonize pagans, and now you are incensed when people mimic it.”
And you know this, how?
I am curious about the sources you used to arrive at that conclusion.
Precisely. The church in the middle ages labeled witches and other pagans as "Satan worshippers" in order to discredit and persecute them. There is not one shred of evidence that anyone worshiped Satan prior to Christianity. The only evidence Satanism existed is from accusations by the Church itself.
Thanks for the info. I had the album, and it had some really good music on it; but after a while I just felt I had to get rid of it.
Just wondering, did Oz Ozborne ever get with another band that you know of? Or any of the others?
I meant to address my post to you as well 48. There is just no evidence of any practice of Satanism prior to the Church accusing pagans and heretics of practicing it.
With reference to the mention of Satanism being distinct from Wicca, Wicca was invented by Aleister Crowley's protege Gerald Gardner, who was an OTO initiate. It is the OTO's brand of Satanism rebranded to appeal to feminists who would not want to label themselves "Satanists," similar to the way the Communist Party created various fronts to appeal to people who would not want to join the CP.
PS: Donald Nugent = Christopher Nugent (Dr. Nugent has published under both names, I believe he used “Christopher” for that book).
Witchraft, such as it was, was allowed in the middle ages in England. The Church ignored it. Only if someone was accused of plotting to kill the king through demonic practices was it prosecuted. An example would be the false story put about that Richard the Third had Jane Shore arrested on witchcraft charges after she “withered” his arm. In reality, he had her arrested because she was a co-conspirator in a plot to murder him.
As it should scare anyone with sense. This stuff is not to be done. These fools don’t know what they are messing with.
I don’t doubt it is foul.
Don’t know the details; no interest in learning. I’d categorize it as “witchcraft” and especially poor thing for Jewish people to know about (think Saul).
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