The Power of Pagan Women

The patriarchal Church sought to destroy paganism to break the power of its women.

This is a story particularly supported by the more feminist Wiccans. Wicca then becomes a tool through which these members feel they can reclaim their long-suppressed importance and power.

Certainly Medieval Christian Europe was a bad place to be a woman, and the Church just as certainly had few things nice to say about them. But that was a later development in Church history and was influenced as much by culture as culture was being influenced by the Church.

The simple fact is that there has historically always been gender inequality, whether the culture be pagan or Christian. The power of women varies from culture to culture, and it is certainly true that in some of these cultures women wielded considerably more dignity, respect, and power than they did in Medieval…

I came across this article & thought it was very interesting. If being White is so great, can you blame them for not understanding how it’s not so great for someone who’s isn’t White? I would think not. It’s kind of like expecting Donald Trump’s kids to understand the real definition of the word hungry or for Kareem Abdul Jabbar to know what it’s like to be short. So with that said, if a particular group of people have enjoyed certain advantages in this country (whether intentional or not), how can we honestly expect them to wholly understand what it’s like for people who are not in that same group? It ain’t gonna happen folks.

Of course, I’m not justifying racism. Surely there are some things that are just blatantly racist – name calling, stereotyping, etc. – but there are other racist behaviors that are not so clear cut. Asking…

This article was scheduled for posting this morning.  I apologize for the delay…

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The guy being interviewed is one of many officials in North Carolina that have given Black students in particular North Carolina precincts, voting problems beyond belief for this day and age.  Good riddance is the nice way of watching this man’s exit from the NC legislation process.

The Huffington Post

A Republican precinct official in North Carolina resigned from his position Thursday, after The Daily Show aired a segment on the state’s voter ID lawin which he criticized “lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything.”

Don Yelton stepped down from his position in the Buncombe County Republican Party, Buncombe GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell told WRAL.

“When I was a young man you didn’t call a black a black,” Yelton said during the interview. “You called him a negro.”

In a…

This video from Australia is called Bahraini democracy activist addresses Sydney May Day.

From IANS news agency in India:

Bahrain trade union condemns Indian’s death

Dubai, Oct 24. A trade union in Bahrain has condemned the death of an Indian man in a fire at a workshop in the Sitrah region of the Gulf nation.

Following the death of Jijo Varghese Cherian Oct 21 in a fire that broke out at the Al Namal Contracting and Trading Company in Nuwaidrat, where he was working, the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) Wednesday expressed concern at the working conditions of the workshops across the country, the Gulf Daily News reported.

Labour ministry officials during their visit to the site reportedly found lapses in the company’s safety norms.

Cherian reportedly got trapped inside the pit of the workshop along with two of his colleagues – Aby Mathew and Thomas Parackal…

WINSTON-SALEM — Aonta De’Vaux Ruth, one of the men shot by two Winston-Salem police officers Friday, said one of the police officers rammed the car he was in, got out and immediately started firing his gun.

“It wasn’t no approach,” Ruth said in an interview Wednesday. “He started shooting.”

Ruth, who was shot in the left arm, is referring to Officer Brady Ferguson. According to Winston-Salem police, Ferguson stopped a green Cadillac Seville driven by James Edward Plater, 32, about 12:24 a.m. Friday. Ruth was a passenger in the car. Police said that as Ferguson approached the car, he and Plater got into an altercation and Ferguson started firing into the car.

Ruth disputes that.

He said that Ferguson turned on his blue lights, but not his siren. Ferguson then sped around a car driven by a friend of Ruth that was behind Plater’s car while Plater waited to turn…

3 Hurt When Child Fires Officer’s AR-15 At School Safety Presentation

” Three students were hurt when a child fired an officer’s rifle during a safety presentation at a Southern California elementary school Wednesday, authorities said.

It happened about 11:15 a.m. at Newman Elementary School in Chino (map), according to Tamrin Olden, crime prevention supervisor for the Chino Police Department.

The child fired a loaded AR-15 rifle, which was mounted on a police motorbike on on display in the school’s courtyard, a school official said.

Two students were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, Olden said. A third student was treated at the school and sent home.”

 

 

  We’re in the best of hands … Add another cop to the list of those unworthy of carrying a gun . But us lowly , peon citizens are not to be trusted with…