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University Recognises Wicca as Religion
Total Catholic ^ | June 21, 2006 | James Hastings

Posted on 06/21/2006 8:13:24 AM PDT by NYer

The Catholic chaplain of St Andrew's University in Scotland has defended the institution's decision to officially recognise Wiccans.

St Andrews University, whose graduates include Prince William, has decided to allocate an area for followers of the alternative religion to hold festivals and rituals after university bosses feared they could be prosecuted under human rights legislation. Now pagan or wiccans as they prefer to be called, will be allowed to use campus buildings and outdoor space for festivals, providing they do not utter incantations or spells that might harm others. Nor may not raise spirits or to call up dark forces, and ritual nudity is strictly forbidden.

The Catholic chaplain who did not want to be named dismissed fears by the local MSP, a Christian, that the university's decision was "political correctness gone mad."

"We do more harm than good if we take pagans seriously," he said.

"I would not want to be seen as restricting freedom of speech or human rights. After all, we do live in a multi-cultural society and as long as they do not break the law, I do not see a problem. There are all sorts of student bodies and groups. One group in England started a sheep counting society. Its all just harmless. There's no reason to try and stop them"


TOPICS: Activism; Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: academia; religiousleft; scotland; wicca; wiccans

1 posted on 06/21/2006 8:13:25 AM PDT by NYer
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2 posted on 06/21/2006 8:13:57 AM PDT by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: NYer

Who was here first...pagans or non-pagans?


3 posted on 06/21/2006 8:14:37 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: NYer
Gimme that auld time religion!

http://www.witchcraft.org/

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Some people likely have way too much time on their hands!

4 posted on 06/21/2006 8:25:43 AM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: NYer
So when do the taxpayers get to fund the first church of Charlie Manson on Campus?

How about the Jivaro headhunter religion?

Just how much in taxpayer funds are we willing to spend to research and rebirth all religions from the beginning of time?

Just to be fair and not seem to promote one religion over another!

5 posted on 06/21/2006 8:36:11 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl!)
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To: NYer

These so-called Catholic universities are kind of like insitutional "womenpriests". They can label themselves Catholic all they want, it's just pretend.


6 posted on 06/21/2006 8:48:36 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: rawcatslyentist
Just how much in taxpayer funds are we willing to spend to research and rebirth all religions from the beginning of time?

The abortion industry has all but resurrected Moloch worship, using taxpayer funds, already....


7 posted on 06/21/2006 8:49:29 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Colossians 4:6)
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To: Rutles4Ever
These so-called Catholic universities

St. Andrew's isn't a Catholic school, and hasn't been since the reformation.

8 posted on 06/21/2006 9:06:48 AM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: NYer

I had a wiccan for my psychology deep class in high school. We did all sorts of weird things and called it psychology: astrology charts, aura reading, mind reading, etc... She believed in reincarnation and other nonsense. But by gosh there was no prayer! No Bible reading! That would have been an outrage you know.


9 posted on 06/21/2006 9:07:18 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Alex Murphy

If they would have had vacuum technology back then, they would be doing what we are today! Why wait till birth?


10 posted on 06/21/2006 9:08:52 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl!)
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To: Candor7
Gimme that auld time religion!

LOL.

Seriously though, the "paganism" that most of these folks practice is really New Age theosophy dressed up with some antique spraypaint. It doesn't hold much in common with what the Greeks/Romans or the American Indians practiced.

Cultures which both, by the way, put sorcerors to death.

11 posted on 06/21/2006 9:13:15 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Campion

Ah. Thanks for clarifying.


12 posted on 06/21/2006 9:21:50 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: Claud
Agreed. I think that most of these New Age folks have no idea what they are palying with. If they did, they would be like most of us who fear God, and keep our relationship with nature very simple and straight forward.

Snakes crawling up my legs do very little for me!

13 posted on 06/21/2006 9:31:02 AM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: Alex Murphy
resurrected Moloch worship

Is that pic out of a Chick tract. It sort of has that "look".

14 posted on 06/21/2006 10:13:04 AM PDT by Lee N. Field
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To: Lee N. Field
Is that pic out of a Chick tract. It sort of has that "look".

Argentinian Catholic(?) website Cruzada Reparadora del Santo Rosario, in an article about abortion. I was looking for images of the Moloch idol that once occupied the Valley of Hinnom in the Old Testament, and found it via Google (was looking for one that depicted infant sacrifice). By a happy coincidence, the authors of the article had the same thought I did.

15 posted on 06/21/2006 11:08:44 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Colossians 4:6)
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To: Alex Murphy
Argentinian Catholic(?) website

My Spanish is a bit sketchy, but with the way they're flacking Fatima, and The Rosary, and devotion to Sacred Heart of Jesus ... I don't think they're Baptists.

16 posted on 06/21/2006 11:15:01 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: NYer
We have another name for Wiccans in this country:

Environmentalists

17 posted on 06/21/2006 11:15:27 AM PDT by StJacques
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To: ArrogantBustard
My Spanish is a bit sketchy, but with the way they're flacking Fatima, and The Rosary, and devotion to Sacred Heart of Jesus ... I don't think they're Baptists.

My Spanish is worse than yours, and I wasn't taking any chances :P

That tacky "Jesus Prayer Rug" scam has taught me not to take religious-looking things at face value.

18 posted on 06/21/2006 11:35:51 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Colossians 4:6)
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To: StJacques

<< NYer
We have another name for Wiccans in this country:

Environmentalists >>

All of them are but sub-cults of the godless faux religion: Liberalism.

Whose essentially envy-motivated, hatred-engined and rage-driven followers may all be observed to first be and -- depending, one supposes, upon the strength of their devotion -- by varying degrees, psychotic.

For Liberalism is a psychosis.


19 posted on 06/21/2006 12:52:53 PM PDT by Brian Allen (All that is required to ensure the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke)
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