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A Pagan Republican Runs for Office

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Last Post Oct 19, 2009 11:40 PM by: San_Francisco_Values
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A Pagan Republican Runs for Office

Oct 18, 2009 9:39 AM
I just had to share this, it was too good not to.

Aspiring New York City councilman Dan Halloran is a practicing Neopagan, more specifically a Heathen, devoted to the religious practices and beliefs of early Northern Europe. But the oddest thing of all, to many people, is that he’s not an anti-war, enviro-activist, free-loving liberal—he’s a Republican.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religionandtheology/1907/a_pagan_republican_comes_out_of_the_broom_closet/
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Re: A Pagan Republican Runs for Office

Oct 18, 2009 2:37 PM
Doesn't surprise me some of the meanest Nazis were pagans. Some of the meanest right wing posters here are pagans too.

Strange bedfellows of the religious right.
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Re: A Pagan Republican Runs for Office

Oct 18, 2009 5:31 PM
Mean exceptions run both ways and through all religions:

Christians Hunting Witches (Again)

“His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him — Mount Zion Lighthouse. A month later, he died. Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of “witch children” reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files. Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” “It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity,” said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria.”

http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/10/christians-hunting-witches-again.html
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Re: A Pagan Republican Runs for Office

Oct 19, 2009 11:40 PM
Yeahup, as the old saying goes mean, aren't nice.The malice most witchs create is over rated. I kind of treat them like demons, I put them to work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vThbhkg4EfY
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