Posts belonging to Category Religion
Posted by Angela on February 2, 2012
**UPDATE: Local paper posted my tweets on their website. Feel free to check them out!***** I am sitting in my living room with Daria DVD in the Blu-Ray. I finally get to eat dinner at almost 11:30 pm. Tonight I was at the Buncombe County Board of Education meeting where they introduced the first [...]
Categories: Religion
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Tags: academics, board of education, buncombe county, diversity training, policy, religious discrimination, religious material, school, separation of church and state
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Posted by Angela on January 25, 2012
There is a scandal in my town, a scandal that is getting some national attention. North Windy Ridge Elementary School passed out some Bibles on the last day of school before Winter Break. A local pagan woman has challenged the school and now the proverbial shit has hit the fan. Ultimately the problem is, the [...]
Categories: Religion
| Tags: bibles, books, catholic bible, challenged, Christ, christian religion, christians vs pagans, citizen times, commenting, community, defensive, distract, divisiveness, fire arms, forums, freedom of religion, fundamentalist, gideon international, god's army, god's warriors, hide, laws, local, majority, manipulate, mature adults, mountain area interfaith forum, national attention, negative, non-christian religion, north windy ridge elementary school, notorious, objective, one true religion, pagan, pagan clergy, pointing fingers, preaching, protect, rednecks, religious texts, scandal, shadows, shut up, stirring the pot, support, winter break, witness, wlos
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Posted by Angela on January 5, 2012
*edited to correct misspelling of name and email address!* A question that I most often hear is “What alternative to the Boy/Girl Scouts is there for my family?”. Well I am pleased to share with you the SpiralScouts ! SpiralScouts is extremely pagan friendly, but is not strictly for pagan families. Like any of the other scouting [...]
Categories: Life, Religion
| Tags: alternative, art history, boy scouts, camping, care of the earth, CFO, circles, clan, committees, community, Fire Flies, girl scouts, hearth, hiking, Michelle Clausen, music, organization, pagan friendly, Path Finders, safety procedures, scouting programs, spiral scouts, Spiral Scouts International, sustainable living, talent, topics, treasurer, tribal coordinator, tribes
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Posted by Angela on December 5, 2011
I recently saw this article on Google Plus in which it is alleged that an 11 year old was tormented for being pagan by his teacher. I took some time today to send an email to the contacts of the school to express my own personal opinion which I am posting below. Before reading (or responding) [...]
Categories: Religion
| Tags: bullying, children, contact, email, pagan, principal, superintendent, teacher, tormented, unfair, unjust
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Posted by Angela on October 13, 2011
We recently had a discussion at our Temple about how we were preparing for Samhain and it led to honoring our ancestors. At one point someone said “I don’t think I want to honor my ancestors because of what they did”. This got the old wheels spinning. Everyone has ancestors that are less than desirable. We [...]
Categories: Religion, Samhain
| Tags: abusive assholes, alcoholics, ancestors, apology, behavior, bigots, concentration camp, crazy, drug addicts, familial lines, family stories, forgiveness, Life, murderers, nazi, samhain, souls, temple, valuable lessons
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