|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:08 PM Original message |
Starhawk on Christine O'Donnell 'dabbling' in Witchcraft; finally someone from The Craft speaks up |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. I had your back the other day |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Thanks! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. Thank you, Hekate. This is an excellent op-ed. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Margot Adler noted that too in her seminal (feminal?) Drawing Down the Moon |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. How true. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
33. That's a good point re: the Tao. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. Deleted message |
Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. Her more of the same trickle down economic policies; are what scare me. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. Starhawk merits a wing wigwag from SpiralHawk |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. Starhawk is a great writer and it is joyous to hear her words |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. kr |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
9. K&R, but it's sad to see that DU supports anti-Wiccan bigotry. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Kind of the minstrel-show variety of bigotry disguised as wit or humor. Mostly it's ignorance though |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
28. At least some action was finally taken against this bigotry. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 09:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Religion in general doesn't get a lot of respect on DU |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 02:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. That's true, but the difference is in the application of justice. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Oh, I agree. There's a lot of ignorance here about non-mainstream religions |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
demigoddess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 07:30 PM Response to Reply #32 |
56. people in general have given up reading books or are too young |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
34. For example? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. For example: |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Are you sure you're not confusing heresy to bigotry? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 05:26 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Nah, heresy's peachy in my book. I was a heretic for years, myself. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
dbt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Don't feed him. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 07:02 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. heresy against wicca, not christianity. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 10:18 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. There is no such thing in Wicca. There is no Pope to tell you there is only one path to truth. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. What makes you think I despise religions? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:18 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. "But here you are, playing the martyr." |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #48 |
54. Claiming bigotry when there is none. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #43 |
52. Abundant evidence in this thread and over time. I'm no one's martyr; I'm a scholar of religions |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:21 PM Response to Reply #42 |
51. Thanks for taking the time to write a level-headed response. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 05:18 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. You're welcome. Sometimes the latent teacher in me takes over.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. No interest in taking the challenge to prove me wrong? Oh well. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 07:13 PM Response to Reply #46 |
55. "You prefer to focus your criticisms on Wicca over other religions." |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
41. I think all religion is as stupid as heck. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:08 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. That's fair. But let's not fall into the ad hominem trap. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. Real witchcraft deserves respect |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
underseasurveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I Just gots ta know. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. aka Miriam Simos |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
30. ^^^ For those who don't know Starhawk... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. While I was crafting this reply an entire subthread was deleted. Well, too good to waste, imo! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 12:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. That was definitely too good to waste. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
16. I see her point, but this is like a Baptist repudiating the Pope as "unchristian" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 09:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Starhawk does not now and never has claimed to speak for all of NeoPaganism... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 09:59 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I would have asked her if she ate Cakes of Light. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. ! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
17. Level of political discourse is disgusting...but it did provide this opportunity for your post -- !! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. I "dabbled" in witchcraft myself at one point... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
19. Actually, Selena Fox spoke out the other day |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 05:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. thank you, Star |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
23. Wow...makes me proud to be Wiccan. I am printing this article. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
27. Thoughtful response. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-24-10 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
39. kick |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
45. Here Here.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Thanks for the support. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
47. Well I thought when she mentioned Satan and Witchcraft together |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. A mention of polyhedral dice would have been a trifecta. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-25-10 07:58 PM Response to Reply #49 |
57. Blackleaf! NOOO! nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Fri Apr 26th 2024, 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC