Comments on: Religion at Copenhagen and other Pagan News of Note http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/12/religion-at-copenhagen-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lokisgodhi http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/12/religion-at-copenhagen-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#comment-19976 Lokisgodhi Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:49:55 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=3882#comment-19976 Regarding the British Congolese minister: This is so sick and depraved that I'm almost at a loss for words. I hope the inmate in whatever facility they put him in give him what the judge and the Crown did not. Regarding the British Congolese minister:

This is so sick and depraved that I'm almost at a loss for words. I hope the inmate in whatever facility they put him in give him what the judge and the Crown did not.

]]> By: munin_and_hugin http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/12/religion-at-copenhagen-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#comment-19975 munin_and_hugin Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:20:33 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=3882#comment-19975 As someone who is takes part in the metal scene overall, I'd have to agree that within the Black Metal community there would be no way for a film maker, or reporter to get the details they want if they painted Vikernes as a crazy church burning lunatic. Not to say that most of those within the metal community wouldn't agree with that, just that you wouldn't get anyone to talk using those terms. The final piece reflects on the entire metal scene, and that's why you wouldn't get anywhere with such a portrayal, at least not anywhere near the truth. I myself am pretty sick of people automatically thinking metal is Satanic, let alone the more radical subgenres. A more delicate tone is certainly the way to go. As someone who is takes part in the metal scene overall, I'd have to agree that within the Black Metal community there would be no way for a film maker, or reporter to get the details they want if they painted Vikernes as a crazy church burning lunatic. Not to say that most of those within the metal community wouldn't agree with that, just that you wouldn't get anyone to talk using those terms. The final piece reflects on the entire metal scene, and that's why you wouldn't get anywhere with such a portrayal, at least not anywhere near the truth. I myself am pretty sick of people automatically thinking metal is Satanic, let alone the more radical subgenres. A more delicate tone is certainly the way to go.

]]> By: Ian http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/12/religion-at-copenhagen-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#comment-19974 Ian Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:50:37 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=3882#comment-19974 <i>Even when it does happens here, some may be tempted to write this off as an immigrant problem, but that ignores how easily we rational and civilized folks in affluent first-world nations drift into the same madness when certain triggers are pushed. </i> These cases really aren't comparable to the English case. Satanic panic is not an exclusively Christian phenomenon--the therapeutic garbage that underpins it is as at home among atheism as any other place. Satanic panic only requires that you believe that there are crazy people out in the world who do believe in the devil and do awful things in the devil's name. Satanic panic cases feature people being accused of, sometimes legally punished for, doing things that they <b>did not actually do</b> or, as in the North Carolina case, misconstruing things that were actually done. It is about lies and distortion. Understand, I'm not trying to let anyone off the hook for the injustices perpetrated through Satanic panic-style legal action, but, at the same time, I don't want to conflate that with truly heinous acts like this man in England <b>committed</b> against his daughter (and for which he was duly prosecuted under the law, through the same court systems used unjustly in some satanic panic cases). Even when it does happens here, some may be tempted to write this off as an immigrant problem, but that ignores how easily we rational and civilized folks in affluent first-world nations drift into the same madness when certain triggers are pushed.

These cases really aren't comparable to the English case. Satanic panic is not an exclusively Christian phenomenon–the therapeutic garbage that underpins it is as at home among atheism as any other place. Satanic panic only requires that you believe that there are crazy people out in the world who do believe in the devil and do awful things in the devil's name.

Satanic panic cases feature people being accused of, sometimes legally punished for, doing things that they did not actually do or, as in the North Carolina case, misconstruing things that were actually done. It is about lies and distortion.

Understand, I'm not trying to let anyone off the hook for the injustices perpetrated through Satanic panic-style legal action, but, at the same time, I don't want to conflate that with truly heinous acts like this man in England committed against his daughter (and for which he was duly prosecuted under the law, through the same court systems used unjustly in some satanic panic cases).

]]> By: Religion at Copenhagen and other Pagan News of Note http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/12/religion-at-copenhagen-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html#comment-19973 Religion at Copenhagen and other Pagan News of Note Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:48:49 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=3882#comment-19973 [...] the story on Topix Posted in [...] [...] the story on Topix Posted in [...]

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