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  • Catholic pogrom against Glastonbury pagans

    Well, not quite.

    Extract from the Guardian (full story linked)
    Catholic marchers turn on Glastonbury pagans

    In scenes reminiscent of medieval witchhunts, Catholic pilgrims in Glastonbury have attacked pagans and threatened to "cleanse" them from the town.


    · Police arrest youth on suspicion of harassment
    · Priest distances church from intimidation

    Thair Shaikh
    Saturday November 4, 2006
    The Guardian

    In scenes reminiscent of medieval witchhunts, Catholic pilgrims in Glastonbury have attacked pagans and threatened to "cleanse" them from the town.

    Local pagans were pelted with salt and branded witches who "would burn in hell" during a procession organised by Youth 2000, a conservative Catholic lay group. The Magick Box, a pagan shop on the route of the march, was also singled out and attacked.

    Maya Pinder, the owner of the shop, said: "We've had to hear comments such as 'burn the witches', we've had salt thrown in our faces and at our shop, people were openly saying they were 'cleansing Glastonbury of paganism'.

    "It was as if we had returned to the dark ages. This is hugely damaging to Glastonbury ... it is hard enough to trade in Glastonbury as it is, if you were to take away the pagan element it would be a dead town." The Somerset town is known for having a large population of resident and visiting pagans.

    The archdruid of Glastonbury, Dreow Bennett, said: "To call the behaviour of some of their members medieval would be an understatement. I personally witnessed the owner of of the Magick Box being confronted by one of their associates and being referred to as a bloody ***** and being told 'you will burn in hell'."


    and from The Times (full story linked)


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    BY THE light of the full moon, witches in Glastonbury will tonight be casting a “circle of protection” around Britain’s centre of mysticism after a group of militant Christians cast salt at them in an attempt to “cleanse” the town of paganism.

    One Roman Catholic was fined and two cautioned by police after the “alternative Hallowe’en” festival in Britain’s centre of magical mysticism turned into a spiritual battle between Christianity and paganism.

    Now even the local Catholic priest has told his fellow Christians that they are not welcome in the town.

    The Christians were visiting for the Lightswitch@glastonbury festival, the eighth such event organised by the Catholic charity Youth 2000. Promotional material tempted them there with slogans such as: “Has the light on your halo gone dark? Have your wings gone a bit grubby? Just want to switch your faith back on?”

    Organised with the co-operation of the Catholic Parish Church and Shrine of Our Lady St Mary in Glastonbury, it was intended to be the Hallowe’en of choice “for those who have grown tired of tatty fancy dress and the Blair Witch Project”.

    But police were called after militants told locals that they wanted to cleanse the town of paganism, cast salt around to exorcise “evil” spirits and called one woman a “whore witch”.

    Yemaya Pinder, a witch and a member of the Pagan Federation who owns The Magick Box store, said thatshe believed the Christians should be prosecuted for a religious hate crime.

    Mrs Pinder, a mother of two and grandmother of four, and whose sister is an Anglican vicar in Basildon, described how a group of Catholics had entered her shop and abused her.

    She said: “It was as if we had returned to the dark ages. They told me they wanted to cleanse Glastonbury of paganism. They said they had lighters and were going to come back and burn us down. When the police asked them to apologise, they refused.”

    She said there were no plans to put a curse on the Christians. “But we are doing protection for ourselves and the shop and the town. We are working magic for the healing and the damage they very nearly did between us and the local Roman Catholic church.”

    She said that the town’s witches had begun to work their magic, starting the protective circle on Samhein, the Celtic new year, last Tuesday, and planning to finish it using the “high energy” of tonight’s full moon.


    Quite funny, really. Perhaps instead of blubbing about "hate crimes", Mrs Pinder could have told the Catholics to "F*ck off out of my shop and go and set fire to some protestants, or blow up Parliament or whatever it is you people usually do." Mind you, if she had, she would probably be up for hate crimes herself.

  • #2
    She shoulda ran out with some sand and started throwing it everywhere saying curses, curses be upon you all.

    Though pagans are retarded.

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    • #3
      Pagans? there aren't pagans in Britain, unless these are immigrants from Africa, Siberia or jungles of Southern America. Neo-pagans are laughable gothic wannabes.
      Throw salt at them
      "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
      I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
      Middle East!

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      • #4
        These Christians wannabe are funny/idiots like hell. They act like a poor caricature of the Christ.

        To purify these thread from the decadent Christians:

        "On that glad night,
        in secret, for no one saw me,
        nor did I look at anything,
        with no other light or guide
        than the one that burned in my heart."

        This guided me
        more surely than the light of noon
        to where he was awaiting me
        - him I knew so well -
        there in a place where no one appeared.


        St-John of the Cross
        bleh

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Heresson
          Neo-pagans are laughable gothic wannabes.
          Gothic chicks > Catholic chicks

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          • #6
            She said there were no plans to put a curse on the Christians.
            I can't say why, but this one phrase seems hysterically funny to me. I guess it just reminds me a lot of the pronouncements from CNN et al along the lines of "the President would not rule out the possibility of economic or military sanctions at this time." Except here it's a batch of hippie leftovers defending themselves with their oogabooga. "In spite of your disrespectful attitude, we shall spare you from the wrath of our mighty army."

            Oh, and I suppose it's, uh, sort of sad that they're being harassed, but really, next to gays, Jews, and various other legitimate groups who've been treated brutally by Catholic fanatics, these people are hard to get worked up about. The pseudo-historic veneer of respectability they've invented for themselves is some excuse, but that just earns them more sympathy from me than the Furries get. Which is to say, a non-negative number, and probably not zero.
            1011 1100
            Pyrebound--a free online serial fantasy novel

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            • #7
              Baptist Boys Seduced by Lewd Attire and Shocking Behavior of Local Catholic Girls

              Freehold, Iowa - "One of those Catholic girls bit my son in the ear!" shouted David Wright, during a meeting of Landover Deacons earlier this month. His son had a close encounter with one of Freehold, Iowa's notorious Catholic girls. Sassy young Mary worshipping ladies have been a longstanding problem in the Freehold community. Their vices, and their complete disregard for authority of any kind, has reached an almost intolerable level. They cut class so they can walk the streets during the day, and they fill up on liquor so they can "get loose" and lure Baptist boys into the alleys at night. Their intent is alarming to those of us who are not familair with their flippancy toward anything Godly. Clearly they serve their own sinful nature, and parade about in scantliy clad attire, with only the Devil's purpose in mind. That purpose is to lure the naturally attracive Baptist young person, into a world of reckless abandon. To draw the Godly towards the Satanic fire that burns in the furnace of every Catholic Church in the world. Underneath their burdensome skirts lies a lustful wound that is trained to ensnare within it's drenched cavity the very soul of our innocent youth.

              The Church of Mary, Queen of Heaven - unfortunately located in downtown Freehold Iowa, houses a corn-a-copia of seductive young nun. These contemptible daughters of Satan make it their life's work to train innocent young women in the ways of Babylonian erotica. They turn chaste lasses into saucy vixens faster than it takes a Mexican to down 10 shots of tequila. When the hounds of Hell are finally let loose on the street, they sweat misbehaivor at every turn.

              We believe that young Catholic girls are a spotted stain on America. They are impolite, shameful, lewd, and exibit shocking behaivor wherever they roam. These smart-aleck, snippy, irreverent teens need a good hard spanking. We don't intend to lose any more of our young boys to these sirens of Rome. Landover Baptist Church is proud to be first in putting forth an edict by which any discourteous conduct observed at the expense of our innocent young people, will be returned in a like manner subject to our Pastor's enterpretation of Mosaic Law.
              I need a foot massage

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              • #8
                Underneath their burdensome skirts lies a lustful wound that is trained to ensnare within it's drenched cavity




                From a spoof site, presumably.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Elok
                  I can't say why, but this one phrase seems hysterically funny to me. I guess it just reminds me a lot of the pronouncements from CNN et al along the lines of "the President would not rule out the possibility of economic or military sanctions at this time." Except here it's a batch of hippie leftovers defending themselves with their oogabooga. "In spite of your disrespectful attitude, we shall spare you from the wrath of our mighty army."
                  Yeah, we're keeping our Level XVII Fireball Spell on standby at the moment but we'd like to emphasise that it is on standby.

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                  • #10
                    Little do those Glastonbury fools know that there is an ancient conspiracy led by the Vatican and Opus Dei to load every set of eighteen-sided dice on earth so that they fail a spell roll more than seventy percent of the time...mwa ha ha ha HACK COUGH (takes hit of inhaler, hides behind cardboard GM shield)
                    1011 1100
                    Pyrebound--a free online serial fantasy novel

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                    • #11
                      I hate the opus dei, I miss jesuit conspiracies
                      I need a foot massage

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                      • #12
                        dominicans were the best... inquisition, science, long missionary travels...
                        "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                        I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                        Middle East!

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                        • #13
                          Yet another proof that Catholicism is unreformable.
                          In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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                          • #14
                            "BY THE light of the full moon, witches in Glastonbury will tonight be casting a “circle of protection” around Britain’s centre of mysticism after a group of militant Christians cast salt at them in an attempt to “cleanse” the town of paganism."

                            LOL make-believe vs...?
                            "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                            "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                            "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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                            • #15
                              Glastonbury.

                              Maybe the Pagans should summone King Artus from his grave in Glstonbury Tor
                              to help them against the christians and reinstate the pagan belief in Britain
                              Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
                              Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"

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