paganism

I'm looking at this story, wondering what is going on... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/14/pagans-jack-kemp-pete-petrauske-sex-abuse_n_2303248.html On the surface, it looks like a lot of the US daycare/satanic panic cases of the 1980s. From the article: Mr Beal said: "(One victim)...

I came across Arkona, a Russian pagan metal band quite by accident while looking up material on Novodevichy Convent for a poem I was writing. I was quite taken with their music, which is saying a lot, concidering that prefer classical and am closer to 70 than 60 in age. What do the rest of you...

Was interested to see the following dissection of the origin of Christmas, specifically that it was a pagan festival co-opted by early Christians to encourage conversion... Anything to it or is it a bit of willful cherry picking ignoring the larger questions? From here: (but I don't know if...

Druidy considered a religion in the UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11457795 Now don't get me wrong, I think its a good indication of how all religions are equally silly, but in my opinion they should all be DENIED tax breaks rather than allowed them. But more to the point, if I recall in the...

Ho ho ho! On request from a fellow forumite, here's the story of Santa Claus-gone-warrior-god, sure to entertain and scare young and old! This should be good. Let's look at the next paragraph line by line, shall we? Awesome! Santa Claus has children captivated? Did he ride a mutant horse? Did he...

A video on youtube has made me do a little spelunking and see what I can find on the topic of "real vampires". Apparently the "vampire community" is a thriving, if a bit psychosis and drama filled, group of people who seem to believe that they need to consume life force (claim made by "psychic...

Sorry, this subject is already being discussed in another thread within this forum. Please go to thread titled Vatican calls Creationism a form of paganism.

Well its about time..... http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=674042006 quote:BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican...

I have been doing some research online on different religions. I started off trying to entertain myself by looking up anything I can find on the beliefs of Satanism and Wiccanism. I expected to find a whole mess of stuff that I thought would be interesting such as what science goes behind...