[Vision2020] Wiccans and Courtney's BLog
Paul Rumelhart
godshatter at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 24 23:16:05 PDT 2007
Hell, most Satanists aren't even Satanists as Dale would understand
them. They don't worship Satan, they don't perform Black Masses, they
don't perform sacreligious rituals. I've known a few of them - not my
thing, but more power to them. Wiccans aren't Satanists either, though
I doubt he would see the difference. I doubt he'd see the difference
between, say, Catholics and Satanists either, so I guess it's no real
surprise. His contrast is set too high - all he can make out is black
and white. I don't know if you've ever taken a beautiful photograph and
reduced it to two colors, but it looks like crap when you are done.
Now, if I had posted an article about Christ Church on my blog with a
skull with an upside-down cross carved into it accompanying it, would
Dale have found it offensive, I wonder?
Does he understand that symbols used by other faiths are as sacred to
their members as his most precious symbols are to him?
Paul
keely emerinemix wrote:
> And, of course, I was "attacking" him for the intellectual dishonesty
> of posting an article about Wicca and using a Satanic graphic. I'm
> not a Wiccan, but Wiccans aren't Satanists. Dale knows that; if he
> doesn't, I wonder what in the world he's doing as an elder at a large
> Christian church.
>
> But I wonder that pretty much every time I think of Dale.
>
> keely
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:15:41 -0700
> From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wiccans and Courtney's BLog
> To: kjajmix1 at msn.com; debismith at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
>
> Dale didn't write the article, he simple posted it. So attacking
> him for any inadequacies the Associated Press wrote is misplaced
> anger.
>
> Best,
>
> Donovan
>
> */keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>/* wrote:
>
> Thanks, Debi, for clearing this up. I took a look and it
> didn't appear to be anything I recognize from my knowledge of
> Wicca, and I kinda wondered if instead it resembled something
> called "bearing false witness."
>
> keely
>
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > From: debismith at moscow.com
> > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:41:56 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wiccans and Courtney's BLog
> >
> > A friend sent me to look at Dale Courtney's take on the
> Wiccan Pentacle
> > being allowed on cemetery markers for military veterans. As
> usual,
> > Courtney got it wrong. What he shows in the graphic is a
> phoney Satanist
> > ritual object, obtained in headshops by Gother-Than-Thou
> adolescents
> > trying to shock their parents. I'm sure he did a lot of
> web-surfing to
> > find this silly piece of trash.
> >
> > The Wiccan Pentacle does not appear attched to a plastic
> skull, nor does
> > it appear point down. It has nothing to do with devil
> worship (Wiccans
> > don't even believe in the concept of the devil), fanged
> skulls, backwards
> > prayers, and the rest of the crap Dale watches on late night
> cable tv. He
> > should stop scaring himself. And Little Chris Whitmer best
> hope cemetery
> > vandaliism is at an all time low, or the authorities will
> know where to
> > look for a culprit...
> >
> > Courtney seems to be an irresponsible hate-monger, and not
> much of a
> > Christian. Juxtaposing this laughable and trashy bit of
> kitsch with an
> > article about religious tolerence finally being awarded to a
> truly
> > persecuted religious minority is amazing. It surely does not
> speak well
> > of his own perceived victimization due to his religious
> beliefs, nor his
> > wish to have redress.
> >
> > That image, of course, has nothing to do with the practice
> of Wicca, but
> > fact has never loomed large on Courtney's horizon. Doesn't
> really matter,
> > as those who take his BLog seriously already had their
> psuedo minds made
> > up, and are willing to believe anything ugly about anyone
> not them.
> > Everyone with a mind still open is just laughing at him...
> > > Debi R-S
> >
> > >
> > > From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> > > To: <london at moscow.com>, "Debi Robinson-Smith"
> > > <debismith at moscow.com>,
> > > "Don and Rose Huskey" <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>,
> > > "Joan Opyr" <joanopyr at moscow.com>,
> > > "Keely Emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>,
> > > "Lois Blackburn" <lblackburn at turbonet.com>,
> > > "Nick Gier" <nickgier at adelphia.net>, "Nick Gier"
> > > <ngier at uidaho.edu>,
> > > "Saundra Lund" <sslund at roadrunner.com>
> > > Subject: Wiccans and Courtney's BLog
> > > Date sent: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:44:57 -0700
> > >
> > > As I do regularly, I visited Courtney's Brainless Log
> (BLog) to see if
> > > there was anything of interest.
> > >
> > > Attached is a PDF file of the "Wiccans Get Grave Marker
> Symbol"
> > > article posted to the BLog. Pay particular attention to
> the graphic
> > > and CDWitmer's comments at the end.
> > >
> > > This, apparently, is considered acceptable Christian behavior
> > > originating from the sandbox boys.
> > >
> > > Yet, if we question anything that originates from Anselm
> House, we are
> > > accused of religious persecution??????????????????????????
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > >
> > > "I'll just speak for our church, in Christ Church. If I
> found out
> > > that a member of our church or a church officer was lying to
> > > non-believers in the community, as a way to get by or
> protect themself
> > > or protect his reputation, yes, he'd be disciplined."
> > >
> > > - Doug Wilson (January 31, 2007)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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