Archive for the ‘religion’ Category

Merry Christmas!

I’m not Christian. I’m Pagan. I say Merry Christmas.
Oh, I say Happy Yule when I initiate a Winter holiday greeting. But when someone says Merry Christmas to me, I say it right back. Same thing with Hanukkah. If someone were to greet me with a Happy Ramadan or Happy Kwanzaa, I’d say it right back at them. It’s [...]

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What No One Wants To Say

Note from the Editor: Oh dear. Our Prudie is not fond at all of that Mr. Huckabee person. Why, the poor dear takes his actions so personally. I think our dear Willimenia gave Prudie the best advice: Ignore him. There’s nothing you can do about it.

Note from Prudie: You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to. Alas.

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I Want to Believe

Note from the Editors: Well, our dear Prudie has been investigating religions lately. We are very happy to see this interest from Prudie. For some time we worried that she would continue to ignore her spiritual self forever. We think this is a very good sign that this Hellish Period is finally drawing to a conclusion.

At last.

…now if only we could find a husband for our dear Prudie…

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I Heart Mormons

You know, all I had to do was mention that I am a former Mormon. Thus the Mormon bashing began. Oh, not so much in the comments of the post I linked, but in emails I received (all three of them) congratulating me on leaving the LDS church. Huh? Why congratulate me? I don’t get it. [...]

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It’s Always For The Greater Good

I’m reading Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism; I’m a couple of pages into the first chapter (which deals with Mussolini). Goldberg connects “belief” with fascism in a way I’ve never before considered. The principles and promises of fascism need not be true for the movement to be successful. As long as followers of those principles believe [...]

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