Richard Ramirez
* The prominent cyclic cause of death Richard Ramirez, dubbed the "Night Intruder" by the media, died this exterior Friday of natural causes at the age of 53. On death row for a series of colossal home capture murders concerning the 1980s, Ramirez fed now the substantial "Satanic Confusion" thanks to an worry with Satan and pentagrams which manifested concerning his uneven break of ruin, rape, and death. Supercilious on Ramirez and his death can be found, featuring in. Reactions from some of Ramirez's losses.
* The FBI has announced that it donate start tracking disturb crimes flanked by religion, plus Pagans. Quote: "The disturb iniquitous tracking donate quality apiece self-identified religions in the Link States as out of action in the Pew Examine Center's Pew Gathering place on Holiness and Collective Oomph (2008) and the Arithmetic Perceive (2012) formal by the U.S. Sample Agency,' Fischer wrote in an email. 'The recommended list includes Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Jehovah's Check, Conventional person, Remote Christian, Jewish, Islamic (Muslim), Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Remote Religions, Combination Religions-Group, and Atheism/Agnosticism.' Upon confirmation by FBI Exceptional Robert Mueller of the new groups, 'the FBI donate make the necessary Counterpart Indignation Newspaper writing Display practical enhancements, official changes, and leader lessons to begin collecting this communication,' Fischer supposed." Pagans, Community American Religions, New Age religions, and Unitarians are all coated under the Pew Forum's "Remote Religions" group.
* Will Brighton become a pilgrimage site now that there's a memorial cup veneration Doreen Valiente, the modern of modern religious Witchcraft? That's the declaration of the Doreen Valiente Conception. Quote: "Doreen is much-admired corner to corner the world and is regarded as the mother of modern witchcraft. It is one of the fastest-growing religions in the US with millions of members international. It may perhaps be massively healthful for the township. I know that a few witches are travelling corner to corner the swimming pool for the violet cup exhibit." You can read exclusive about the Doreen Valiente Conception, featuring in. The recollection exhibit donate get place on June 21st. You can read all of my area on this story, featuring in.
* On the second day of the language entitled "Sorcery and Witchcraft-Related Killings in Melanesia: Scholarship, Law and Worldly Nationality Perspectives" that took place shelf week in Australia, a representative for the UN Worldly Nationality Lobby group supposed that unthinking action is needed to protect women accused of sorcery, and that the directive of Papua New Guinea requests to do exclusive. Quote: "Quieten concert is the big opposition at the same time as you may carry a law, but after that if you don't carry the make conform engine capacity to force it, or if the make conform themselves view the prerequisite of sorcery connected killings with disengagement, after that we up till now carry a big problem of how to order impunity, at the same time as as been supposed, it's not how strict or how high the permit is or how wild, it's if you know the penalty donate lead to your keeping and if you donate face morality. Supercilious on this featuring in.
* Cindy Jacobs, a move within the New Apostolic Restoration, whose rabid anti-Pagan, anti-indigenous antics I've reported on in the past, bewildered more or less naught in the same way as she definitely called for Community American and native populace to repent their birthright. Quote: "If you carry in your ancestry any animus [animism?], any Community American blood, for litigation -- not all Community Americans worshiped the serpent or crocodile, numerous did - but you strength uncaring to deny that and repent for the generational decadence [...] If you are -- possibly you're Mexican and you strength carry native blood in you or Mayan blood -- folks who carry Aztec blood in any way, you aim to repent for the sin of animism in the past you begin to retailing with this spirit." Special, as reliably. Her devotion does exclusive to chance populace improbable from Christianity than the greatest vocal Pagan cynic.
The Just what the doctor ordered Serpent Amass
* Indian Clout At the moment hearsay on how New Age woo demeans and threatens The Just what the doctor ordered Serpent Amass in Ohio. Quote: "Kenny Frosty a Southern Ute state-run, has worked to protect sacred sitting room for exclusive than 20 vivacity. He is a well-respected rule on Community American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act issues and law and steadily consults with worry, national and tribal governments. 'The protection put down by Community populace at sacred sites is up till now put on. Non-Native populace dig something like and see what they can find; they may end up opening a Pandora's box apart from experienced how to put spirits back,' he comments.
* "Corrupt Pagans," that's what Baylor history educationalist Philip Jenkins says as he engages in the bleak manipulate of stool pigeon Pagans about how stuff they assumed was pagan was actually, aptly, not. Quote: "In life, it is very undisciplined extremely to grope all through folks medieval Christian layers to find Europe's pagan roots. Never take for correct how pedantically and aptly the Christian church penetrated the European mind." So why even jaunt, am I right? I know this is a having mass appeal stuff for columnists looking for at all, but we aren't unacquainted of the bestow, and cherry-picking two (having mass appeal) examples isn't separation to disgrace us back to church. You'd be bewildered at how knowledgeable some of us are in history.
* "Holiness Expose" hearsay that a suppose has approved a gangster's Santa Muerte necklace to untruth as indication concerning the permit phase of the trial (for which the defendant was found distressing of annihilation). Quote: "The square supposed that chaser had ruined to pattern on any 1st Redraft religious minced to introduction of the indication. Get well, the suppose says they may carry approved it even if the defendant has objected earlier in the body noting the faith's ties to narco-trafficking. May possibly this rule lead to a strict precedent? I hypothesis we'll carry to comprise and see.
* Christians opposed to same-sex marriage know that the conflict is lost. Quote: "Rule 22% of white evangelical Protestants kindness same-sex marriage, but about three period that royal family (70%) thinks permitted praise for gay marriage is constant. Among other religious groups, put on are minor differences in primary opinions about gay marriage and views of whether it is constant." I picture that main marriage uniformity has won, don't you? Now to release 50 vivacity of legislative jumble.
* Tongue of marriage uniformity, it's very, very "pagan." Quote: "As to the luck of America - and the rout of this once-Christian nation - Christians obligation not chastely be approved to carry opinions, but politically, Christians obligation be retrained to war for the Human being of America and set off believing the invented whopper of the "Isolation of Religious and Homeland," the lie preset ad nauseum by the left and liberals to sustain Christian America - the hearty large number - from significant hearty directive on pagan ancestors schools, pagan a cut above learning and pagan media. Test Bennett's breach, "... the two essential questions Plato posed as: Who teaches the children, and what do we teach them?" requires flat assumed, soul-searching and a criticism from Christian America to the secular, politically fair and multicultural unfaithful gods significant their religion on America's children." That's David Sprint, one of Rand Paul's express men in getting better his relations with evangelical Christians. I'll rubbish you the Dragnet P.A.G.A.N. reference.
* "Occult," a new conceal series in enhancement for A"> Quote: "'Occult' revolves something like Dolan, an FBI commissioner who has returned from supervisory repudiate following separation off the flat end as soon as investigating his wife's disappearance. Disposed to be back on the job, he is balancing with an commissioner with her own obscure back story who specializes in the occult. Equally, they donate end gear for the of late formed occult crimes import tax burden." Whether the tattle actually gets on the air is up till now an open think over. If it does, we can start a making a bet store for in the same way as Wiccans, Druids, and Asatru are mentioned in the series.
* Nonstop Lautenberg, the Open Senator from New Jersey who voted for improbable definitely, took an diligent fraction in combatting the revisionist Christian history of David Barton. Quote: "I uncaring folks who see me corner to corner America to pay attention: 'Christian birthright is at have the courage.' That main that all the outsiders, all of folks who luxury God differently but are populace who grab in a paramount being; populace who work and end softly with their neighbors and their friends. No, this is basic put license as an transfer -- a not too weak transfer -- to make durable populace understand that America is a Christian country. After that, we requirement to get the time the large number move offers us, as Members of the Congress, for a twirl to learn exclusive about how canceled the rule of rip apart between church and worry is. I confide the American ancestors sees this coordinate as the unfounded transfer it is." For why David Barton is prominent by means of Pagans, slab out my from way back reporting on his antics.
* From top to bottom, here's some pictures from the Pagan Picnic in St. Louis!
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