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Anti-life Culture
About the 4th century AD when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in Europe, there began a violent suppression and prosecution of anything and anyone who threatened its power by daring to have their own direct connection to the Divine and its advice, especially the old pagan sites of healing and women.
— Marek Peter Kaziniec
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WITCHES
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus 22:18–20)
…..if I thought I had to take the Bible literally, I would throw it down the nearest volcano….
When I was a in seminary, my professors kept telling me how wonderful and loving John Calvin’s biblical interpretations were. But, whenever I would read Calvin, I was sickened by his anti-Semitism, misogyny and by his inability to sever his logical reasoning from superstitious assumptions….
Starhawk may be the best known Wiccan of our time. She says:
“I am a Witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women’s bodies are one expression of that sacred being.”
— Jim Rigby
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Former gun industry executive Ryan Busse writes that what drives the proliferation of weapons of war is profit and propaganda:
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