Pentacles allowed on war-memorials
In a step forward for freedom of religion, or a step back in the battle against Satan, depending on your perspective, the pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed on government-issued military headstones in national cemetaries. A settlement on Monday between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Wiccans calls for pentacle grave markers currently awaited by eleven families nationwide to be placed in the Virginia cemetary within the next 14 days, the agency also agreed to pay $225,000 in lawyer fees. Wicca, sometime referred to as the Old Religion, is a term applied to a vague body of pre-Christian paganism and European witchcraft as popularized by Gerald Gardner in 1954. It focuses mostly around nature worship, with the pentacle representing the five elements: earth, air, water, fire, and spirit. Mystically speaking, the regular pentacle is not an ‘evil’ sign, as it symbolizes spirit being above the other elements, the soul in control of matter. It is when it’s reversed, as is usually found in Satanic ritual, that it becomes unholy, representing the soul being enslaved by base substance. While Wicca is essentially a bitheistic religion, with the God and Goddess forming a complimentary balance, many Wiccans emphasize the Goddess, with certain versions, like feminist Dianic Wicca, eliminating the God altogether. Even in the bitheistic versions, the male part is often portrayed as the Horned God, adding to the Satanic connotations of the religion. Regardless of its incompatibilities with Christianity, which has over a dozen accepted emblems for its various manifestations, Wicca is one of the fastest growing modern religious movements, and to allow emblems for Eckankar, Soka Gakkai Int., and Seicho-No-Ie (their symbol has a swastika!), while rejecting the pentacle, seems like outdated superstition. Now let’s pour libations for the 39th authorized emblem.
Wiccanism is dumb.
That’s all for now.
Comment by joshua — May 1, 2007 @ 9:22 am