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Before we start, realize that I am not going to debate the merits for or against Colorado's recent legislation, as it has no bearing on my topic. So, no matter what your position on that issue, you can rest easy and keep reading. I only offer that disclaimer because it has direct bearing on the topic I do address below.William Kinne is a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, He identifies as a Christian, and he supports Colorado's legislation for same-sex unions. In a recent Op-Ed piece he was quoted saying, "I think it's a civil-rights issue. I'm a Christian, but I justify it by separating my religious beliefs from the law." His wife Rachel disagrees, stating: "I believe we [should] vote based on our moral beliefs."Kinne's response is as worrisome as it is common today. It shows how fragmented and compartmentalized our modern society has become, and how sloganeering has replaced clear-thinking on some very important issues. Especially troublesome is the contradictory nature of his statements. Can one separate his religious beliefs from the law? Should one do so? Really, one doesn't have to spend a lot of time thinking about these issues to see where the flaws in Kinne's statements appear.First of all, what is religion? Today, many people would say it is what one believes about the existence of God and how that person should worship. It is a private belief that gives comfort and structure to the life on an individual, and each individual will seek out the comfort and structure that best works for him or her. In other words, religion is a pragmatic approach that affects one's individual actions or perhaps the actions of a like-minded group but doesn't really affect the wider world. But this is a relatively recent understanding of what religion is. Religious belief encompasses much more than the personal aspects of faith. Religion deals with concepts like why we exist, why there is something rather than nothing, what is right and wrong for all people; basically, any religious system has ultimate realities at its core. But a great many of our laws are simply a reflection of our beliefs about ultimate realities. For example, we believe that human beings are valuable in and of themselves, so our society passes laws against killing or against discriminating on the basis of race. We value the truth so laws against slander or perjury are passed. While there are tax laws and other procedural legislation, moral values are the foundation for the laws that protect us. These laws reflect our understanding that human beings are intrinsically valuable.When we talk about concepts like value, we are talking about something the Germans called a "Weltanschauung" or what is known as a worldview. But one cannot separate religion from worldview like Kinne hopes because religion plays a central role in informing one's worldview. Philosopher Brendan Sweetman notes, "Every time we make a moral judgment, or make a claim about the nature of reality, or about what sort of beings human beings are, or about whether God exists, or about the nature of the good life, or about which political system is best, or about whether a law should be passed regarding such and such, we are appealing to our worldview."Sweetman classifies worldviews into broadly religious and secular types. An irreligious person would have a secular worldview while a religious person would have a religious one. However, one cannot have a secular AND a religious worldview. Whether or not God exists is a worldview question and to say he does and he doesn't is hopelessly confused. Similarly, if one believes in Christianity then one would hold that moral values are grounded in God. Laws should then be a reflection of one's understanding of how God would have us treat one another. To make a claim that "I'm a Christian, but I justify it by separating my religious beliefs from the law" is contradictory. I think we need Christians to challenge this mistaken concept of religion as only a private matter. Perhaps we should question those who would object to religion informing the law as to what they base their ideas of morality and equality. Do they truly believe that all men are created equal? Why? By centering our discussion on worldview instead of faith, we may be able to get farther and help others understand how all ones beliefs should work together to form a consistent whole. A consistent view is to be preferred over a cloistered one, and I've found no worldview more consistent than Christianity.REFERENCES1. Brownstein, Ronald "Danger Ahead for Democrats: The Passion Gap." NationalJournal.comJuly 11, 2013. Accessed July 13, 2013.2. The early 20th century French sociologist Emile Durkin defined religion as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden--beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society classifies such views as "functional definitions". For more on this, see their entry "Definition of Religion" at http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/defreligion.htm 3. Sweetman, Brendan. Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square. Downers Grove, IL.: IVP Academic, 2006. 17.[4. Ibid.
Although accusations of witchcraft seem to have been most commonly made against older women who lived on the margins of society and who may have become socially troublesome, there is also evidence that women who were too powerful could become targets as well. Joan of Arc is one famous example of a woman who achieved a great deal but was then burned as a witch for her trouble.
Joan of Arc, who has become the patron saint of France, was a peasant girl who experienced mystical visions of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret during the Hundred Years War which convinced her that she was destined by God to lead the French to victory over the English invaders.
In 1429 she convinced the dauphin Charles VII to let her demonstrate that she had the ability to match her ambitions and she led French forces to liberate the city of Orleans from an English siege. She was eventually taken prisoner by the Burgundians, allies of England, and turned over to the English who burned her at the stake as a witch on the argument that her claims of direct communication with God were heretical and an act of disobedience to the Church.
Not until June 16, 1456, did Pope Callistus III declare Joan of Arc to be innocent on the charges of heresy and witchcraft. It can be difficult for powerful institutions to admit error of any sort, but especially when the errors involve grave injustices that cause the suffering and death of innocent people. Everyone likes to think of themselves are pure of heart and doing good work, even when they are hurting others. Sometimes the need to justify one's actions leads one to justifications of brutality, cruelty, and violence in general -- and thus a betrayal of whatever moral principles they thought they held to begin with.
Books You Might Enjoy:
Paul Huson - Mastering Witchcraft
Gabor Klaniczay - Witchcraft Mythologies And Persecutions
John Yarker - The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
Marian Green - A Witch Alone
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Here are two photos I took cling to night at the start section for Witchcraft In this day and age - 60 Sparkle Onat Treadwell's Books in London.The picture at the top shows Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell's benevolent a talk about British witchcraft from the fifties to the seventies.This was an abbreviated call-up of a discuss she gave fair in New York and was originally about how the English Vigor reported on Wicca and witchcraft in the mid-20th century. The broadsheet papers regularly gave in particular luminous, magnificent and incorrect accounts of what went on in the Create. Gerald Gardner was one of the few Wiccans delightful to speak to the Vigor at the time and his book Witchcraft In this day and age was partly written to try to make amends the revenue and hand over the citizen a genuine foretelling dressed in what witches do.The picture to the fit shows Trevor Greenfield, editor of the new book Witchcraft In this day and age - 60 Sparkle On,which shows how witchcraft has ready in interest, mechanized and distorted so Gerald Gardner's time. You can read my preceding review of the book here: http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2014/05/review-witchcraft-today-60-years-on.htmlCopies of the book can be bought at Treadwell's, in Collection Boulevard, London WC1E 7BS and from the Treadwell's website.On each Pagan Eye post, I escort a photo or two that I find enthralling, with a few words. It can be a refugee image, a pagan site, an run, or upright a pictorial picture. If you callous to send me a photo for a Pagan Eye post, scratch email it to badwitch1234@gmail.com Let me know what the photo shows and whether you callous your name mentioned or not. For copyright reasons, the photo prerequisite be one you grasp diligent yourself and you prerequisite bolster that you are submitting it for A Bad Witch's Blog.Associations and former simultaneous postsWitchcraft In this day and age - 60 Sparkle Onhttp://www.moon-books.net/http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2014/05/review-witchcraft-today-60-years-on.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/12/pagan-eye-where-witches-walked.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/06/pagan-eye-museum-of-witchcraft.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/12/book-witchfather-life-of-gerald-gardner.html
A witch has been useful to cast a voodoo curse on football star Cristiano Ronaldo, a older Manchester Unite actor who is now in the Distinct Madrid feel, according to a story on Mailonline.
The intelligence precisely states that a grand play a part who knows the winger useful the witch to "be in the way a total disfigurement on the Distinct Madrid star".
In a notice to book El Mundo, the witch wrote: "I have void v this impressive firm. I am a professional and get useful very well for using my powers. I have been settled so Cristiano Ronaldo suffers a total disfigurement. I can't undertaking that mood be, but I can say he mood be maltreated for leader time than he drama."
The ignition doesn't say why the play a part paying for the spell sought-after Ronaldo cursed - whether it is out of professional warfare, a can't stand for the feel, or a leader own up criticism. At all the occurrence, I have to say the story saddens me.
With pleasure, in this protect, few development in Europe questionable curses can harm them these days. A Distinct Madrid speaker dismissed the hazard as "a absurd thing light akin all the others Madrid comes with a leg on each side of every day."
If witchcraft was eventful leader seriously, this is the type of thing that might lead to the craft self finished twisted while leader.
In assorted parts of the world the trepidation of witches' curses is so unlimited that witchcraft is twisted, and development suspected of casting spells are ill-treated, punished and even put to death. According to a ignition by intelligence agency Reuters, close a business and ill-treatment of women and children accused of self witches is upward worldwide. Aides to UN special investigators on women's care order and on rundown executions alleged killings and misuse v presumed witches - frequently aged women -were traditional in countries from South Africa to India.
Jeff Crabby of UN itinerant agency UNHCR said: "This is becoming an total defect. It is a form of ill-treatment and misuse that is allocation around the gravel."
Unwilling this highest of ill-treatment, the story of someone paying a witch to cast a curse, and the witch characteristic that it is adjust to do so, seems strangely out of place.
Best Wiccan witches questionable it is error to curse. They custom the Wiccan Rede of "An it harm none, do what ye mood". Various questionable that if you create harm to someone completed magic, harm mood in due course come back to you one way or original. A variety of attach this the law of threefold return, kindheartedness that you mood get three times as by far bad luck as you dish out.
Now, I'm not amend specific about the law of threefold return, but I do questionable that if you are horrible to someone then they are latent to have in mind to get their own back on you and that this can rise appearing in a very awful spit. I with questionable that cursing someone completed magic is no augmented than in person tender them with your fist or with a beat. It impose be adjust in self-defence, but that's all.
Football hooliganism and misuse are seriously anti-social behaviour. The thugs that commit such acts plus point to be dealt with by the full sweat of the law. They bring their firm and guy fans appearing in impertinence and subside grassroots opinions of the fastidious game. The development in back this cursing of Ronaldo are no augmented than football hooligans, in my stand up.
That isn't to say I wouldn't use magic to try to help the firm I justification, though. Casting a good luck spell - or here your lucky underpants to volunteer yourself and your feel much-needed justification - is quite marked from wishing anyone harm.
The picture on top of comes from the Cristiano Ronaldo 2010 Encyclopedia
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1216834/Cristiano-Ronaldo-hit-voodoo-spell-witch-hired-famous-acquaintance-Manchester-United-star.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE58M4Q820090923
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2007/11/superstitions-and-folk-traditions.html
