At the Void's Edge

WildHunt.org: A Post-Christian Election?

“The problem is that both parties have been slow to embrace real pluralism and religious diversity in their one prime-time 3-day infomercial to the American people (and in certain senses, the world). This may not be a problem for this election cycle, but it is increasingly going to be an issue as that slow demographic shift keeps on shifting, and more states start to be evenly divided between Christians on one side, with “nones” and “others” on the other. The “unchurched” (non-Christian) vote is going to be a real thing in the years to come, and we’re a frustratingly diverse demographic. Asian-Americans are a key growth point for non-Abrahamic religions across the country, while a whopping 12% of state residents are adherents of a New Age, Pagan, or esoteric faiths in Colorado, with another 20% fitting into the “none” category. These are growing populations that can’t be ignored forever.”

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Credit to the Dominionism is destroying America Facebook page for finding this first. As they note: “They misuse Christian here. I get tired of that. Its the far right Fundies and Evangelicals who are the problem here. But yes, America is about diversity, be it religious or otherwise.”

Source wildhunt.org

Ethics, Politics and Chicken-For-Christ

Every once in a while one of my heretic, neo-pagan, humanist or secularist friends will yell at me for occasionally eating at Chick-Fil-A, due to its well-known connections with a wide variety of Christian activist operations, Jesus Camps and anti-gay politics. I tell them I give Chicken-For-Christ a pass because they consistently get teenagers to give courteous, professional service, which is close enough to a real-world miracle for me.

That’s my half-joking answer. But my more serious answer has more to do with the current trajectory of the emerging Aeonic currents. Simply stated, the expiring Aeons are beyond saving by Chicken-For-Christ or anyone else.

True, Abrahamic monotheism is unlikely to die out completely; I consider such a thing neither realistically possible nor necessarily desirable. But the old days of the little men with holy books pretending to speak for God dictating the morals of the masses by divine fatwa are over in the civilized word and dying out elsewhere, flailing attempts at turning back the clock notwithstanding. The Enlightenment will not be undone now.

Sexual liberty for consenting adults - and recognition of the inherent equality and dignity of the same, in spite of Abrahamic pseudo-morality - is a done deal in the West. Aleister Crowley’s Utterance of the Word Thelema, followed by Anton LaVey’s Utterance of Indulgence, have taken root in the West - though not necessarily in the ways their respective Magi may have intended. The forces of theocracy and Dominionism aren’t spent yet, but their fights are rage-tantrums of defeat, resentment and phony victimhood. They’re not getting their Seven Mountains back.

So I’m perfectly happy to make a sinful LaVeyan Indulgence of Chicken-For-Christ’s tender, oh-so-delicious, seasoned-to-perfection chicken, and I’m sure they’re happy to take my money. If they want to blow their money on a bunch of lost political causes, that’s not my problem.

—Brother Virgil

Get the jokes out of your system now.

Don’t dance and gloat too long over Saint Frothy suspending his campaign.

This is not a reason to celebrate. Yes, Santorum is a theo-fascist and has no business anywhere near the Oval Office except maybe as a tourist. But that’s the whole point. Even Americans who believe in the god of Abraham don’t like being told how to live, what to think and what to believe; Santorum would have been destroyed face to face with Obama.

The far right needs to be permanently discredited by having its champion demolished head to head in front of God and everybody. At this point, the only way that will happen is through Newton Leroy, the living embodiment of pandering narcissist Republican hypocrisy.
 
Far right temper tantrums notwithstanding, Romney does indeed have a shot at winning the election, *IF* people who remember who started the wars and wrecked the economy don’t show up to keep them away. Santorum helping his chances is not something to be dancing about. 
 
This ain’t over.