It's Merry Yule-So Get Over It

And it's Winter Solstice, too !!!

Yay Happy Winter Solstice - now the light comes back !!!

(the astronomers are always right, huh?)

Peter you are right as rain:)

     ¡Feliz Navidad!
   !Merry Christmas!
    !Happy Holidays!
  !and a Joyous Yüle!    

It is so dark in the mornings again and it's getting dark around 5 pm...I want more light!!!LOL

Hmm.....I don't think Christianity is the only religion in which people don't practice what they preach.

It seems like every religion degrades into some kind of dogma after awhile.

And then you get dogmatic people.

Who all have to be "right"--

Alison but christianity is the most intolerant towards other christians and any religion that isnt christianity.

And those who are "wrong" are harassed, tortured, murdered.

Every religion has its terrorists.

Alison that may be but name a pagan terrorist?

I dont recall any pagans or druids running planes into buildings with planes or anyone running into building with planes to piss the pagans off....hmm.

Paganism and druidism goes pretty far into the past.....beyond recorded history, I believe. I'm sure they had their moments, too.

so the Muslims don't have terrorists?

The 9/11 terrorists justified their murder with their religion.

Ritual satanic murder still happens in this country. In the name of Wicca.

Alison of course they do but Christians are the only ones whining that people are trying to replace "their" holiday....well it isnt their holiday it is actually the biggest pagan holiday.....yet you dont see the pagans out running around crying about it....the whole purpose of this article was to show how silly it is to be so intolerant.

Read Torey Hayden's "Ghost Child"

Alison wiccans are NOT satanic. They dont believe in god or SATAN so therefore they dont worship either.

Possibly do some research before making silly statements. K

Thanks Sparky back at ya.

It seems more that you are bashing Christianity over other religions. Jesus came to the Jews, Buddha came to the Hindus, Mohammed came to the Moors. It seems every religion, once the initial burst of new energy is over, degrades into power struggles of some kind.

There are satanic groups out there.

I have to drive a son somewhere now......sorry to leave you at this point.

Alison I dont see the jews getting bent out of shape.....just the christian. A I am not bashing anyone. Why is it when christians doing something like this it is applauded but if anyone else does it......it is bashing?

In Danish we say God Jul (Good Yule) and I've often wondered if there's a connection between G-O-D as (good) and our GOD. Hmmm... So there may well still be GOD in their Yule greeting.

Have a Happy Merry, Lori.

Thanks Ina.

Jim I think so too.

Leah more than likely yes.

intresting

Lori, my grandpa is very intolerant Christian. I get what you are saying. They had to use the cross, that was the Romans crucified on, and back then the Romans were not Christian. Didn't it take a few hundred years later for them to become or invent Christianity. It wasn;t even called Christianity all those years ago. Wasn't it just jew or gentile ? maybe there is another word I am forgetting. Like you said, why are they so intolerant when they take things from other peoples history?

Well... If by "Wicca" you mean "witches" -- witches have TWO gods -- actually, a "goddess", Hertha (the "Earth Mother"), and a "god", Cerunnos (the "Horned One"). The goddess has dominion over spring and summer and the god over fall and winter. Our widely accepted present day "image" of Satan is the result of the Church's (meaning the "Catholic Church") attempts to "demonize" Cerrunos at a time when it was despiritely attempting to gain converts from the nature-worshipping Celts. I agree that the Christian religion (mainly the Catholic Church) has tortured and killed millions of people during its reign (10,000 mostly women and children were put to death per WEEK during one period of the Middle Ages for heresy in Switzerland... and that's not to mention all the natives of the New World who were all but annihilated...) but I must also agree with Alison that other religions have also had their dark periods. I think the Palestinians would disagree that the Jews have not been "bent out of shape" -- they have managed to kill quite a few thousand of their Palestinian neighbors... Then, of course, the Druids and many of the native New World religions practiced human sacrifice, as well... The Brahmans all but annihilated the original peoples of the Indus Valley, so, Hinduism, it seems has its own little dirty chapter of history, as well... The only "major" religion that I can think of that hasn't indulged in attempted genocide is Buddhism but, then, of course the North Viet Namese and the North Koreans both have large populations of Buddhists and that hasn't seemed to dimish their participation in the war department much, either...

Jean wiccans can be witches but not all of them are....and not all witches are wiccans.

My point to this is that yes all religions have bad and good but all religions dont whine and cry that their holidays are the only ones that matter.

Celebrate Christmas or Yule or Hannuka or nothing but dont tell other people that the only appropriate thing to say on Dec 25th is Merry Christmas.

Got the point Lori

And the History Channel has a very interesting program called "Banned from the Bible" on right now, as I read this. Fundamentalists should take a look at this program, or series of programs, but then, they'd probably just try to shut down NPTV.

"Ritual satanic murder still happens in this country. In the name of Wicca."

I'm STILL laughing at that one - how loopy. Is that what they teach these days in those kinds of churches? WOW !!!!

Why don't we all just skip to the holiday everyone on earth celebrates and wish peace and joy to all throughout the New Year. It's hard to argue with that, although I'm sure someone will.