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Blessed be… Imbolic is just around the corner (February 2nd)
For you non-Pagans out there… here is your Ed-you-Ma-Ca-Shun on Imbolic.

Imbolic is commonly known as “Candlemas”.
Candlemas involves celebrations of banishing the winter and welcoming the spring. At the time of Candlemas, the newborn Sun God is seen as a small child nursing from his Mother.
At this phase of the cycle, winter is swept away and new beginnings are nurtured. Some Pagan groups favor this time of year for initiations into their particular Craft.

It is traditional at Candlemas to light every lamp in the house for a few minutes in honor of the Sun’s rebirth.

Almost has similarities to “Christmas” huh? (Lights on a tree, house, etc)

Merry Meet and Blessed Be!

Back by popular demand:

Can anyone tell me how old Christmas is? Anyone? Two thousand years, give or take, right? Gee, who’s been reading their “No Child Left Behind” History Textbooks? Try f*cking four thousand years! Twice as f*cking long as your little baby king has been around. How could that possibly be, unless. . . waitaminute. . . Christmas isn’t f*cking Christian.

That’s right, that Yuletide cheer you’re spreading? What exactly do you think Yule is? It’s the f*cking Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice. And those “Christmas” traditions? They’re not just “LIKE” Pagan rituals, they f*cking ARE Pagan rituals.

Way before your Jesus got all magical with the bread and fishes, the Romans were celebrating the birth of Mithra on . . . guess? Go on – guess.
December f*cking 25th. What a weird coincidence huh??!! Practically the whole thing is ripped off from the fucking Druids and the Romans. Twelve days? Check. Exchanging gifts? Check. Mistletoe? Check. And you’d better fucking believe that those decorated trees that Gibson and Co. are so bent out of shape over are as Pagan as the Rune and Crystal Shack at Pentagramfest 2005.
You might as well be building miniature f*cking Stonehenges in your livingroom.

Don’t you read your own goddamn Bibles? Jesus was born when? In the middle of winter? Okay… that’s possible.
Lot of Shepherds out watching their flocks around that time of year in Bethlehem? I doubt it….because they’d be freezing their f*cking asses off.

Tell you what – y’all go figure out which one of the different Bible stories about the birth of Baby Jesus® you want to believe, and then we’ll argue about whether it f*cking happened like that or not.

Christians just stole a bunch of traditions from other cultures, slapped them together, stuck a f*cking tinfoil star on top and called it the Most Important Holiday of the Year.
Actually, the the first national Christmas Tree was lit in the year 1923 on the White House lawn by President Calvin Coolidge.

Modern Christmas makes Michael Jackson look positively organic.

But every year you boys at the television stations still freak out about how everyone’s out to get your special trees. This is really the most important thing you have to talk about? Whether Domo Jump-To-The-Pump Jockeys say “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas”?

Well I’ve f*cking had it. You want to play bullshit games and scream about how God’s f*cking judgment is gonna come raining down on us if we don’t start watching our vocabulary?
Go right ahead. But let me clue you in on something: fire and brimstone is no deterrent for us.
We are NOT going to hell, assholes, we’re f*cking in hell. We live with YOU.

And f*ck Easter too, you fertility–rite–celebrating, whiny, self-righteous, don’t–know–the– history–of–your–own–religion assholes.

Went to the doctor today. I have strep throat. Awesome.
This has got to be the twenty second time I’ve had strep throat. That’s just fuckin ducky.

The best part about strepthroat isn’t the neck that is so sore you can’t hold your head up. It’s not the glands so tender that washing your neck in the shower is a pain- literally. It’s not even the fact that your throat is so swollen that you can’t cough up all the spent mucous properly so you end up gagging on it after it has formed a massive wad that is threatening to kill you.
It is the fact that they treat it, generally, with one of three pills; pennicillin, ampicillin, amoxicillin.
The problem with the “cillin” family is that they come in the form of the WORLD’S LARGEST FUCKING PILLS EVER. So it works out well.
You have the worst sore throat you can imagine having and then you have to swallow pills that you probably couldn’t swallow whole on your best day.

IT’S TITS I TELL YA.

I was asked today what exactly is being a Pagan? When I tried to edu-ma-cate them, I told them the major differences in Paganism is Wiccan and Druid.

What is a Druid?
A brief response would be “Druidry is a spiritual path that honours the ancestors and the spirits of nature and celebrates individuality and creativity.”
Blah Blah Blah….That is but one description of druidry.

A friend of mine, xMuX, who hasn’t even decided/announced or the balls to admit that he is in fact Pagan (in spirit), being annoyed with someone stating that this definition wasn’t simple enough, he defined Druidry as:
“Druidry is a nature religion of white-robed tree-huggers who like to drink mead or Smirnoff.”

So, modern Druidry is rooted in the ancient Celtic past. Before we go any further let’s explore a bit about the Druid past.

Who were the Druids?
The word “druid” comes from the Celtic root word “druwid” (that’s Phoetic for all you Christians out there) which means – oak knowledge. From “dru” meaning oak and “wid” meaning “to know” or “to see”.

Reading several books, (that xMuX just happens to buy me for my birthdays etc.) and even fiction (like Morgan Llewellyn’s “The Druids”) the overwhelming impression that we have is that the Druids were a priestly type class – Ritual leaders, Healers, Maintainers of lore, Keepers of the Law and the Repository of Tribal History.

Druids were Bards, Priests, Herbalists, Musicians, Judges, Historians and Magicians.
Druidry is not limited to men, women are also Druids. To become a Druid took many years of dedication towards learning all the lore by rote. Nothing was written down. There have been some theories as to why the Druids didn’t write anything down – since the Celts as a people did travel throughout Europe they were exposed to Greek and Latin. Why didn’t they write anything down?

It is believed that words have power – by writing them down they lose power. What little written documentation that we do have about the Druids has been written by those who conquered the Celts – the Romans.

This is a very long lesson… so I’ll end this here for now

Okay… some friggin idiot (Pastor) actually published this crap: Christmas is NOT Pagan

** Email this dipshit here —> Dr. Richard P. Bucher, Pastor

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!!!

Can anyone tell me how old Christmas is? Anyone? Two thousand years, give or take, right? Gee, who’s been reading their “No Child Left Behind” History Textbooks? Try f*cking four thousand years! Twice as f*cking long as your little baby king has been around. How could that possibly be, unless. . . waitaminute. . . Christmas isn’t f*cking Christian.

That’s right, that Yuletide cheer you’re spreading? What exactly do you think Yule is? It’s the f*cking Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice. And those “Christmas” traditions? They’re not just “LIKE” Pagan rituals, they fucking ARE Pagan rituals.
Way before your Jesus got all magical with the bread and fishes, the Romans were celebrating the birth of Mithra on . . . guess? Go on – guess.
December f*cking 25th. What a weird coincidence huh??!! Practically the whole thing is ripped off from the fucking Druids and the Romans. Twelve days? Check. Exchanging gifts? Check. Mistletoe? Check. And you’d better fucking believe that those decorated trees that Gibson and Co. are so bent out of shape over are as Pagan as the Rune and Crystal Shack at Pentagramfest 2005. You might as well be building miniature f*cking Stonehenges in your livingroom.

Don’t you read your own goddamn Bibles? Jesus was born when? In the middle of winter? Okay… that’s possible.
Lot of Shepherds out watching their flocks around that time of year in Bethlehem? I doubt it….because they’d be freezing their f*cking asses off.

Tell you what – y’all go figure out which one of the different Bible stories about the birth of Baby Jesus® you want to believe, and then we’ll argue about whether it f*cking happened like that or not.

Christians just stole a bunch of traditions from other cultures, slapped them together, stuck a f*cking tinfoil star on top and called it the Most Important Holiday of the Year.
Actually, the the first national Christmas Tree was lighted in the year 1923 on the White House lawn by President Calvin Coolidge.

Modern Christmas makes Michael Jackson look positively organic.

But every year you boys at the television stations still freak out about how everyone’s out to get your special trees. This is really the most important thing you have to talk about? Whether Domo Jump-To-The-Pump Jockeys say “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas”?

Well I’ve f*cking had it. You want to play bullshit games and scream about how God’s f*cking judgment is gonna come raining down on us if we don’t start watching our vocabulary?
Go right ahead. But let me clue you in on something: fire and brimstone isn’t no deterrent for us.
We are NOT going to hell, assholes, we’re f*cking in hell. We live with YOU.

And f*ck Easter too, you fertility–rite–celebrating, whiny, self-righteous, don’t–know–the– history–of–your–own–religion assholes.

*** Whew *** Glad I finally got that off my chest
(I’ve taken te liberty of passing this along already to Pastor Bucher)