Unleash the Hounds! (The Wild Hunt Link Roundup)

There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.

The “paganism-as-slur” story continues to gain ammunition, this time from the Family Research Council, who argue that America has entered an age of “pagan” sexuality. Quote: “What we really have outside is a pagan sexuality which is totally different from a Christian sexuality. And I don’t think enough Christians have yet put that way starkly enough to themselves. What you’re really being invited with all this is entry into pagan sexuality.” Signs of “pagan” sexuality include, according to Dr. Patrick F. Fagan, pornography, abortion, gay marriage, and infidelity. Meanwhile, Fagan attests that monotheists have the very best sex, so take that Pagans!

Christian Day isn’t the only person to cry foul at horror movie “The Conjuring” for its Salem witch sub-plot. Salon.com critic Andrew O’Hehir lambastes the film for it’s retrograde social politics and revisionism. Quote: “Along with the overall tone of hard-right family-values messaging, “The Conjuring” wants to walk back one of America’s earliest historical crimes, the Salem witch trials of 1692, and make it look like there must have been something to it after all. Those terrified colonial women, brainwashed, persecuted and murdered by the religious authorities of their day – see, they actually were witches, who slaughtered children and pledged their love to Satan and everything! That’s not poetic license. It’s reprehensible and inexcusable bullshit.”

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