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	<title>Comments on: The Handcuffed Demons Within You</title>
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		<title>By: Dragon&#039;s Eye</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2010/07/the-handcuffed-demons-within-you.html#comment-13538</link>
		<dc:creator>Dragon&#039;s Eye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooops!  Meant: &quot; CATHOL-I-CISM &quot;. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooops!  Meant: &quot; CATHOL-I-CISM &quot;.</p>
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		<title>By: Fireowner</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2010/07/the-handcuffed-demons-within-you.html#comment-13537</link>
		<dc:creator>Fireowner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Give Dragon&#039;s Eye  a break. Their assessment is spot on for at least the last six to seven centuries. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Give Dragon&#039;s Eye  a break. Their assessment is spot on for at least the last six to seven centuries.</p>
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		<title>By: Dragon's Eye</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dragon's Eye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe the REAL question should be:

 &quot; WHO will protect us FROM the &#039;church&#039; and its fundamentalist, blind followers? &quot;

Twas NOT the Pagans who have responsible for the mass-slaughter of entire cultures and nations!

Twas NOT the Pagans who sought to ban and outlaw virtually every Natural human behavior and endeavor that was not in accord to the dictates of a few persons in the church!

Twas NOT the Pagans who insist on forcibly &#039;converting&#039; other peoples and cultures from afar to a religion that is alien to those cultures ( all without their consent - as implied by &#039;forcibly&#039; )!

Twas NOT the Pagans that taught such aggregious behaviors as &quot;hate&quot;, &quot;shame&quot;, and other unnatural behaviors towards things natural and prime!

Twas NOT the Pagans that exploited entire peoples and our Natural Home for vain and selfish means and goals!

Twas NOT the Pagans that made others of &#039;lesser faith&#039; feel guilty and &#039;evil&#039; just for having their OWN ways and NOT amounting to SOMEONE else&#039;s ideals and &#039;caliber&#039;!

Twas NOT the Pagans who sought out and burned ancient books, writings, pictures, and other pieces of historical significance that were deemed &#039;evil&#039; by their blind followers ( all under the dictates of the church-heads )!

Twas NOT the Pagans who chose to live their lives in constant fear and apprehension about a future uncertain, instead of actually LIVING today and now - and learning from the mistakes of today and now, rather than repeating them for centuries to come!

Twas NOT the Pagans who were responsible for the helped-extinctions of entire species of plant and animal, as well as traditions and cultures, because they were deemed &#039;unfit to remain in existence&#039;!

* * *

The history of the last six-to-seven thousand years ( give or take a century or two ) has seen the spiritual devolvement and &quot;distancing&quot; from the Divine and Natural Man on a mass scale == ALL BECAUSE of the so-called &#039;church of catholicism, christianity, islam, judaism, and various other &quot;derivatives of the Egyptian Akhenatenism ( worship of one Sun God - exclusive of any others ). The current &#039;religions&#039; have destroyed much of the stable and sustainable attitudes that Pagans once held as a Sacred Trust and Duty! There have been countless wars, with more already in the making == all under the blessings of the &#039;church&#039;. There have numerous &quot;sex-scandals&quot; where many &#039;priests&#039; and other clergy have be given a pass for their revolting treatment of their child congregationers, all protected by the &#039;church&#039;! ( Any TRUE Pagan would protect and defend children of all stripe, color, and clan from harm, by death if need be, BEFORE anyone &quot;of the cloth&quot; would ever be allowed to remain hurting children! )

Very few Pagans have been known for &#039;child-sacrifices&#039;, but HOW MANY Pagan children were sacrificed on the altar of &#039;conversion&#039;??? How many innocent people suffered because of the Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, and the horrible and memorable Witch Burnings in both Northern Europe and Colonial America? ( All under the &#039; church&#039;s &#039; doctrine called: &quot; Malleus Maleficarum &quot; - or Witch&#039;s Hammer ??? )

I could go on about the TRUE victims of a brutal, not-forgotten history here, but I feel it would be a huge waste of bandwidth to go into details of a KNOWN HISTORY that these &#039;churches&#039; will never publicly admit to!

I pity those who still subscribe to the &quot;victim mentality&quot; as we only remain so, by our own choice.

Many wonderful and sacred traditions are lost to the mists of time because of a brutal &#039;church-leader&#039;s&#039; decrees! This is insanity that must pass away, and be replaced with Natural, in-born commonsense again. Peace only comes about through patience, love, compassion, accepting; knowing and applying the Supreme Laws of Nature and Nature&#039;s Deities! ( Gods, Goddesses, and ALL Beings )

&quot; Peace, Love, and Light,
  We are ALL Children of the Same One! &quot;

- Dragon&#039;s Eye</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe the REAL question should be:</p>
<p> &#8221; WHO will protect us FROM the &#8216;church&#8217; and its fundamentalist, blind followers? &#8221;</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans who have responsible for the mass-slaughter of entire cultures and nations!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans who sought to ban and outlaw virtually every Natural human behavior and endeavor that was not in accord to the dictates of a few persons in the church!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans who insist on forcibly &#8216;converting&#8217; other peoples and cultures from afar to a religion that is alien to those cultures ( all without their consent &#8211; as implied by &#8216;forcibly&#8217; )!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans that taught such aggregious behaviors as &#8220;hate&#8221;, &#8220;shame&#8221;, and other unnatural behaviors towards things natural and prime!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans that exploited entire peoples and our Natural Home for vain and selfish means and goals!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans that made others of &#8216;lesser faith&#8217; feel guilty and &#8216;evil&#8217; just for having their OWN ways and NOT amounting to SOMEONE else&#8217;s ideals and &#8216;caliber&#8217;!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans who sought out and burned ancient books, writings, pictures, and other pieces of historical significance that were deemed &#8216;evil&#8217; by their blind followers ( all under the dictates of the church-heads )!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans who chose to live their lives in constant fear and apprehension about a future uncertain, instead of actually LIVING today and now &#8211; and learning from the mistakes of today and now, rather than repeating them for centuries to come!</p>
<p>Twas NOT the Pagans who were responsible for the helped-extinctions of entire species of plant and animal, as well as traditions and cultures, because they were deemed &#8216;unfit to remain in existence&#8217;!</p>
<p>* * *</p>
<p>The history of the last six-to-seven thousand years ( give or take a century or two ) has seen the spiritual devolvement and &#8220;distancing&#8221; from the Divine and Natural Man on a mass scale == ALL BECAUSE of the so-called &#8216;church of catholicism, christianity, islam, judaism, and various other &#8220;derivatives of the Egyptian Akhenatenism ( worship of one Sun God &#8211; exclusive of any others ). The current &#8216;religions&#8217; have destroyed much of the stable and sustainable attitudes that Pagans once held as a Sacred Trust and Duty! There have been countless wars, with more already in the making == all under the blessings of the &#8216;church&#8217;. There have numerous &#8220;sex-scandals&#8221; where many &#8216;priests&#8217; and other clergy have be given a pass for their revolting treatment of their child congregationers, all protected by the &#8216;church&#8217;! ( Any TRUE Pagan would protect and defend children of all stripe, color, and clan from harm, by death if need be, BEFORE anyone &#8220;of the cloth&#8221; would ever be allowed to remain hurting children! )</p>
<p>Very few Pagans have been known for &#8216;child-sacrifices&#8217;, but HOW MANY Pagan children were sacrificed on the altar of &#8216;conversion&#8217;??? How many innocent people suffered because of the Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, and the horrible and memorable Witch Burnings in both Northern Europe and Colonial America? ( All under the &#8216; church&#8217;s &#8216; doctrine called: &#8221; Malleus Maleficarum &#8221; &#8211; or Witch&#8217;s Hammer ??? )</p>
<p>I could go on about the TRUE victims of a brutal, not-forgotten history here, but I feel it would be a huge waste of bandwidth to go into details of a KNOWN HISTORY that these &#8216;churches&#8217; will never publicly admit to!</p>
<p>I pity those who still subscribe to the &#8220;victim mentality&#8221; as we only remain so, by our own choice.</p>
<p>Many wonderful and sacred traditions are lost to the mists of time because of a brutal &#8216;church-leader&#8217;s&#8217; decrees! This is insanity that must pass away, and be replaced with Natural, in-born commonsense again. Peace only comes about through patience, love, compassion, accepting; knowing and applying the Supreme Laws of Nature and Nature&#8217;s Deities! ( Gods, Goddesses, and ALL Beings )</p>
<p>&#8221; Peace, Love, and Light,<br />
  We are ALL Children of the Same One! &#8221;</p>
<p>- Dragon&#8217;s Eye</p>
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