The Air Force Academy just opened their outdoor shrine for druids, wiccans, and all sorts of new-age type folks. It kinda’ looks like lazy Stonehenge with a little feng shui mixed in.
I gotta’ ask, is there really a big call for this? Are there so many druids in the Air Force Academy? Seriously, if they wanted to do something nice for the new age folks, they should’ve just subscribed to the Oxygen network and called it a day.
I think Fr. Jonathan Morris nailed it when he, according to Fox News, described this “politically correct cowardice by bumbling bureaucrats,” adding, “behind the smoke and mirrors of the supposed high demand for ‘Earth worship prayer circles’ is a small group of activist atheists in America who seek first to water-down and then to abolish the name and face of God from the public square.”
Hey, it just occurred to me, what do wiccans need the Air Force planes for. Can’t they just fly on their brooms?
HT The Blaze
May 6, 2011 at 5:04 pm
So, freedom of religion is only for Catholics and Christians? Yes, there was a call for all military branches to recognize Wicca and Druidism. Pagans serve honorably in our military also.
May 6, 2011 at 5:28 pm
AF is the most civilian branch, and there's still a fad for the folks, who in the 60s would have been looking for a guru, to make up their own version of pagan ceremonies. (John Wright has a lot on this…he doesn't think much of modern psudo-paganism.)
I've met a LOT of wiccians and pagans. I'd say that two of the whole lot were more sincere in their knowledge and dedication than, say, Pelosi is in her Catholicism. (They worshiped Thor as best they could; not nice folks, but you knew where you stood.)
Incidentally, none of the neo-pagans I know want some sort of drumming circle, so I suspect Fr. Morris is on to something.
May 6, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Well, most of the neo-pagans I know will start drumming at the least provocation. (Or none.)
May 6, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Commenting on other's beliefs like this indicates you are weak in your own faith.
May 6, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Commenting on other's beliefs like this indicates you are weak in your own faith.
*hands a cookie for Big Irony of the Morning award*
May 6, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Ha! I love when that happens.
May 6, 2011 at 6:32 pm
My goodness, the only drumming circle in my area is hosted by the IHM nuns!
May 6, 2011 at 9:22 pm
All you generalizers are alike!
May 6, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Isn't that just a big ol' barbecue pit?
— Mack Hall
May 6, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Religion is man's response to God's gift of Faith. Fornication is the chief form of worship of the devil. Anything or anybody who encourages fornication, the worship of the devil establishes a religion contrary to the worship of TRUTH, because the devil has not ever done anything good for anybody or the common good. So, devil worship is contrary to patriotism. While the devil is a PERSON without God's blessing, GAIANS, WICCANS AND DRUIDS WORSHIP THE EARTH. THE EARTH IS NOT A PERSON. Unbelieveably, these persons lower themselves to a position of non-personhood for the purpose of assuming personhood, when all men are created in sovereign personhood, the image of the Person of God. The God they are searching for is in their hearts.
May 7, 2011 at 7:16 pm
"I think Fr. Jonathan Morris nailed it when he, according to Fox News, described this "politically correct cowardice by bumbling bureaucrats," adding, "behind the smoke and mirrors of the supposed high demand for 'Earth worship prayer circles' is a small group of activist atheists in America who seek first to water-down and then to abolish the name and face of God from the public square."
And Lo and Behold with no Divine Providence to protect man, man becomes a slave to the state. Tyranny, totalitarianism, communism, mortal, finte, fallible but never, never human.
May 8, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I wonder if Afro-Americans who practise Voodoo will demead their own place of worship next? Will zombies walk the halls at the AFA? who knows?! LOL!
May 9, 2011 at 1:59 am
Blogged it at Satan's Blog: http://wp.me/p14HPl-NT (Christian satire; you'll like it.)
May 9, 2011 at 9:58 pm
I'll never forget getting ready for this jump from a C-130. We're doing a dog tag check and my Miraculous Medal pops out. My Navy Seal buddy, an all round good guy, and California granola eater, asks me about it.
We talk. "Well what religion are you? I ask him.
"Druid" he says.
"WHAT?! You are making that —- up, man." I tell him.
He shows me his dog tags: "Nope. Not making it up. I'm a Druid." (Says so right on his tag)
I asked him what the heck was that and he tells me, "Well, it just sort of means that I 'get my energy' from nature; from rocks and rivers and —-."
After telling him that was not a "real religion" and that he was full of it, I added that he better hope there is something besides a rock holding up his parachute, to which he replied, "Oh I believe in air too."
"OK," I told him. "If you have a bad landing and don't look like you are going to make it, I will go get a rock for you."
(He laughed and told me to go ahead and say a prayer instead.)