Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 81 – Why Christian Bashing?

2010
05.07

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4:00 SEO analysis of PCP
5:46 Matt in Iraq writes:

Here’s a dot on your radar all the way from Iraq. I’m a Marine, currently deployed, again, to Iraq. I started listening to the Comedy Minute about a year ago, and I’ve been listening, and back listening, to the show for about a month. I’ve read alot, albeit mostly online, about different Pagan faiths since I got in Iraq in April. While I don’t know much about the pratice so much as the dogma of the faith, something inside says to dive deeper. I’m curious about what anyone knows about Paganism in the military, or what everyone feels about a Pagan serving in a Christian dominated military. Thanks for the great show, and thanks for including you listeners.

P.S. Raptor Jesus went extinct for your sins.
8:00 Our friend Kym as a Pagan Marine
10:00 Persecution Complex exists among Military Pagans just as it does among Civilian Pagans
11:15 Beware Military folks changing the religion they have you on file as
12:00 Our views on Pagans in the military
13:58 PCP Impression of MMPP
14:28 Christian Bashing, why do we do this?
16:20 Kaballah and Donut Theory
17:22 Ashlee’s dissertation why she Christian bashes
20:30 Have the balls to admit to being wrong and be willing to accept new information
21:30 Ashlee’s story about awesome uber-Catholic man
23:00 The type of Christians that piss off Ashlee
23:43 Religious parasites: “Slayer Satanists,” “Charmed Wiccans”
25:05 Spirituality is intended for those who care, not mindless sheep
26:00 Why Donut Theory makes no sense
28:00 Christianity has evolved and schismed over time
28:45 How Wicca has evolved away from Christian bashing as the social environment it exists in has changed.
29:52 How much of the Kemetic beliefs are hard to get to because they were lost due to Christians
32:45 Donut theory as an endorsement of Christianity? How does it tie to religious conversion and religious evolution?
34:00 Christianity as a clip show of religions.
34:45 Old Testament vs. New Testament, the Stargate SG-1 analogy
35:30 What was the point of telling the story of Christianity?
36:30 Ancient Pagans converted due to intellectual curiosity of how the Universe was created?
37:30 Christianity as a tool for conquest
38:10 Most religions in the past few thousand years do had/have creation stories.
39:00 Neanderthal man may have been the last era where there was religion without creation myth
39:40 Wicca’s lack of focus on creationism
42:22 Faith vs. Religion
43:00 People adding their personal beliefs to religion
44:25 If a person throws out 1 belief of their religion, how should they be classified?
48:50 Wiccan practices published in the 1950s and 1960s, was that information “leaked” just so governments would legalize its practices?
52:20 Wiccan publications of the 1950s vs. 1970s
53:45 Doing what feels right for you in a Wiccan context
55:05 The origin of chop sticks