Political Hot Button Issues: Binders Full of Debt
Over the next few weeks, I’d like to talk about some of the “hot button†policies that have received attention in the presidential debates. Though admittedly, I am getting my information on the debates from the Grand Overseerer and then from the Oracle. I just haven’t had to the stamina this year to watch the...
According to some people, I am an accidental serial killer. Or, why I don’t believe a fertilized egg is a person.
I’m not here to start a general debate on abortion. I’m pretty darn far to the left on this issue (hey, my Norse ancestors didn’t consider a person human until nine days after they were born. Comparatively I’m downright conservative), but I can at least understand why somebody would have a more strict viewpoint than...
Teaching the Controversy
Two weeks ago on The Wild Hunt (ah, Jason… may I call you Jason? Your brilliance inspires all us Pagan bloggers so. Please accept the fawning adulation of a princess as recompense for semi-regularly riffing off you*)… where was I? Oh yes. Two weeks ago on The Wild Hunt, Jason talked about the Religious Right’s**...
Kirk Cameron and Free Speech
This week on The Grand Overseer (i.e. Facebook) I watched an argument over whether or not Kirk Cameron’s comments regarding homosexuality on Piers Morgan were out of line or not. The argument centered less around the content of what he said and more around whether or not Kirk Cameron has the right to have and...
Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy
Orthodoxy – Correctness in doctrine and belief (from Greek orthos “right†+ “doxa†belief) Orthopraxy – Correct practice or action (from Greek orthos “right†+ praxis “actionâ€) A couple folks on a Heathen listserve I belong to started throwing these words around, and while I was pretty sure I knew what orthodoxy meant and I’d...
I’m Anti-Consumerist, Not Anti-Capitalist
Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption…Â We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever increasing pace. We need to have people...
Newt-G and I Agree On Something. Oh, And It’s Snowing in Tartarus
“The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors…†– Newt Gingrich on Jan. 25, 2012 during a conference call with Jim Garlow (The full call can be found on his website) Wow, break out the trumpets! Newt-G said something I agree with. Of course, he...
How Should We Proceed with Our Open Letters?
As you may know, we sometimes write open letters to public figures when issues enter our realm that are not to our liking. So far, when we write an open letter for the blog, we actually send the letter to the recipient. Our first letter promoted interfaith tolerance and sensitivity and was a genuine plea...
