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Himmlers Drinking Horn found at Wewelsburg

Christianity doing what it does best— abusing kids. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nuns-abuse-nazareth-house-scotland-37611076

On July 28, Tennessee State Representative Monty Fritts said out loud that he wanted to ban mosques and what he called “pagan religions.” Fritts was running for governor when he said he wanted to ban non-Christian places of worship. He grouped Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism under the word pagan and argued that the First Amendment only limits Congress, not state governments. The First Amendment protects the right of Americans to practice their religion without the government picking which faiths are allowed. That includes Pagans, witches, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and everyone else. Religious freedom does not mean freedom for one religion to control everyone else. In early August, the Aquarian Tabernacle Church issued a response supporting Pagans, Wiccans and people following earth-centered, polytheistic and other non-Christian spiritual paths. They made it clear that our freedom is not something politicians get to hand out or take away based on their own religious beliefs. Fritts lost the Republican primary on August 6, but nearly 168,000 people still voted for him. He received about 23.5 percent of the vote and won five counties

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Right now, there is a live debate on X between representatives of the Norroena Society and some group called the Platonic Path. This debate is supposedly going to determine the future of "paganism" 🤦‍♂ Instead of two different groups following two different religious paths these people feel the need to justify themselves and argue for dominance in the religious landscape of the future. Personally, I have no side in the plato controversy. Plato and platonism/neoplatonism seem to be a mixed bag to me. And it's all Greek. I don't have any Greek ancestry and don't follow a Greek religion. None of this has stopped the super folkists from calling me a platonist for expressing my sincere belief in a first cause, or universalist for my interest in Indo-European comparative studies. People on the internet such as Pagan Revivalism and Good Tree and others in the Norroena Society sphere would do well to follow the advice they often spout against those they disagree with. Live your faith. Get off the internet. Build something in the real world. The endless "folkish" crusade against platonism and the other labels they come up with like "axiality" and "new age" leads to them rewriting our sacred myths and changing definitions in order to maintain their sense of authority in this space. The video linked below from Hammer and Vajra is spot on. Stop these insincere debates. Be secure in your path and if it is the right path others will see it in the way you walk the path. Better yourself and build your community. Strengthen your relationship with the Gods of your ancestors. https://youtu.be/Re80bgkqKS4 @Folk_Spirit

🕊 Political cartoonist and satirist Nick Bougas has died at the age of 71. He was best known for his "racist, antisemitic, antifeminist, and homophobic cartoons." One image in particular, an cartoon of a Jewish man known as the “Happy Merchant,” became one of the most recognizable and widely circulated memes on the internet. More broadly, Bougas’s cartoons circulated extensively across online subcultures throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, first in the American online sphere and later across European and global internet communities. They became recurring material in trolling culture, imageboards such as 4chan, and far-right networks around the world.

Nice idea for the next time you go on a forest walk.

In Catholic Ireland, a girl didn’t have to commit a crime to find herself put away into a Magdalene Laundry. Pregnancy outside marriage was enough. She could be considered promiscuous, “wayward”, a “slut”, too interested in boys, or even too pretty for her own good. Sometimes a reputation was enough. Even if she became pregnant through rape, she could still be treated as the one who had sinned. Often it was her own parents who brought her in. Priests also pressured families to hand their daughters over. The daughter was sent away to atone for her “sins”, while her parents could believe that handing her over was an act of repentance in itself. The man who got her pregnant? Nothing happened to him. Some girls were brought in against their will, thrashing, begging, pleading and wrestling not to go. Some had to be physically restrained and taken inside while their families left them there. In the Magdalene Laundries, atonement meant work. Women washed, scrubbed and ironed for hours without wages. Survivors described beatings, humiliation, having their hair cut or shaved, hunger, food deprivation, sexual abuse, disfigurement and relentless work. For many, leaving was never going to happen. Some spent years there, others decades, and many died behind those walls. Survivors spoke of women being starved and worked to death. Some were murdered. Those who escaped were returned by the police (or family) to the institutions they had escaped from, where severe punishment could await them. Then there were the babies. Across Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes and related institutions, mothers were forcefully separated from their children. Babies were adopted in Ireland and others sent overseas, including to America. Names were changed. Records were altered or falsified. Illegal birth registrations sometimes recorded adoptive parents as the child’s biological parents. Not every child left those institutions alive. Thousands of babies and children died in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes. At Tuam, the remains of babies and young children were discovered in underground chambers on the grounds of the former home. Others disappeared into paperwork. Years later, mothers searched for their children and children searched for their mothers. Some found each other. Many babies were adopted by undocumented peoples, and have disappeared entirely. The last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed in 1996. In Pagan Ireland, pregnancy and fertility were sacred. In Christian Ireland, our women were shamed — and many died for it. And while families were looking for answers, the records — containing names, institutional records, correspondence and much more — were placed under a 30-year restriction on access by the Irish government. By the 30-year mark, many of the mothers who spent their lives wondering what happened to their babies will be dead. And so will many of their children. Many will die never knowing the answer, because the Irish government is hiding it from the public. This is what Christianity did to our people.