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<<Bro Barr ought to read the AF Times: this was settled at Lackland
AFB in about 1986/87 (or so) when an airman got her right recognised
to take off her holydays (like some take the other pagan holidays
{Christmas, i.e., as practiced}) ... but of course, Bro Barr is a
politician and the whole 'witch' thing began as a socio-political
thing way back when anyway (but they didn't call it "religious
cleansing / simplification"). I read a while back about the Salem-
era issue dealt, in part, with women who inherited property from
departed husbands, fathers, et al; once accused and found not
innocent, the property was auctioned. Hmmm.
The following is in line with my thinking about mere man 'knowing'
what the Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent intends:
>From Mark Twain's "Letters From the Earth"
(via www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/clemens.html)
"Now I am really going to put a strain upon you. Man thinks he is the
noblest work of God. This is the truth I am telling you. Man really
believes that. He even hires preachers to tell him so once a week.
And very few even laugh. Man, the special pet, whom God has given
mumps, measles, whooping cough, croup, colds, asthma, bronchitis,
itch, cancer, cholera, typhus, piles, constipation, warts, pimples,
boils, corns, tumors, insanity, jaundice, bunions, abscesses,
diseases of every organ of the body, but why continue the list?"
"Many of these people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it
in religious matters."
"The first time the Deity came down to Earth, he brought life and
death; when he came down the second time he brought hell."
"Even the Church, which is credited with having spilt more innocent
blood, since the beginning of its supremacy, than all the political
wars together have spilt, has observed a limit. A sort of limit. But
you notice when the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, Adored Father of
Man, goes to war, there is no limit. He is totally without mercy-he,
who is called the Fountain of Mercy. He slays, slays, slays! All the
men, all the beasts, all the boys, all the babies; also all the women
and all the girls, except those that have not been deflowered."
~~~~~~~~~~~
Note: "Druids" are somewhat related but no closer than say a Baptist
is to a Quaker.
A<>E<>R >>
> Witch Hunt: Barr on a Rampage
>
> June 9, 1999
>
> By James A. Haught
>
>
>
> NOT long ago, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., led the right-wing assault on
> President Clinton's sex life. (Barr's claim to purity sagged a bit
> when smut king Larry Flynt alleged that he had indulged in adultery
> and had helped his first wife get an abortion.)
>
> What's Barr doing now, after the impeachment flopped?
>
> <Picture>Chasing witches.
>
> The Georgian learned that some soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, and other
> military bases practice Wicca, the druidic nature religion, whose
> members call themselves pagans or witches.
>
> Barr demanded that the Pentagon ban the heathens. He called for "an
> end to the taxpayer-supported practice of witchcraft on military
> bases."
>
> "What's next?" he asked. "Will armored divisions be forced to travel
> with sacrificial animals for satanic rituals? Will Rastafarians demand
> the inclusion of ritualistic marijuana cigarettes in their rations?"
>
> (Barr's press release is posted on his Internet Web site, near one
> demanding that America allow its covert agents to commit
> assassinations.)
>
> Naturally, Barr's witch hunt sparked widely varied reactions.
> Fundamentalists held a rally, gave the congressman a standing ovation,
> and called him "Brother Barr." But Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas, whose
> district contains Fort Hood, commented:
>
> "It would be terrible policy to require each installation commander to
> define what is a religion and decide which religions can be practiced
> by American citizens."
>
> Exactly. If the Pentagon pays military chaplains of Catholic, Jewish
> and other faiths, at least it must allow worship by Moonies,
> Scientologists, Satanists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishnas,
> Mormons, Santerians, Wiccans or whatever. The government can't tell
> soldiers that Religion A is approved and Religion B is forbidden.
>
> Actually, Wicca is recognized by the IRS, and Barr's own state has
> given it tax-exempt status since 1981.
>
> As usual, Barr has made himself outlandish. The best comment on this
> fracas was by columnist Tom Teepen, who urged the "good witches" to
> try to "get close enough to Barr one day to kiss him and turn him into
> a prince."
>
> [Originally published in the West Virginia Gazette. Used with
> permission of the editor.]
A<>E<>R
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