Thursday, August 16, 2007

An Obvious Disconnect

I love this so much, it makes me want to burn stuff and dance around in my undies.

There is such an overbearing disconnect here that I need not mention it, but of course I will. The plight of this lady is that she was caught supporting her religion:

A 42-year-old woman who describes herself as a Wiccan faces charges of
disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after neighbors complained she was
disturbing them with chants around a bonfire she had built 10 feet from her
home.

You see, all fine and dandy. The article goes on to announce her belligerence and apparent drunkenness, but it enunciates quite the article of truth about religions - there is no continuity between intentions (love, affection, truth, etc) and reality (war, hatred, murder, misogyny, rights deprivation, etc, etc, etc..). Ever. And this Wiccan example paints this picture with an apparently (self respecting, only) natural religion:


[The police chief] said Barney at one point poured lighter fluid on the
fire, in which she was burning rubber car mats and a cooler. Barney refused to
cooperate with police and was belligerent, and her breath smelled of alcohol.


So, burning rubber, a cooler quite probably made of Styrofoam and plastic, and using lighter fluid to make it larger and more intense. Excellent. Now what is your religion all about? Remind me:

Wicca is a nature-based religion based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.

Mother nature, in her non-existence, would be ever so proud of your servitude to her needs. I, on the other hand, find you adulterous to the environment. Could you say that you were praying to one god while playing with another?Either way, it is all fake, but clearly elucidating of your dogmatic ignorance.

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