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Christian Evangelicals Have Declared a Culture War: Are You Prepared?

Pah

Uber all member
All Press Releases for June 1, 2005 from eMediaWire

What if you were a Witch and you were told you were not an American because you are not Christian? For some today, this is what is happening as the Christian Right continues its declared culture war against the separation of Church and State, according to author Ed Hubbard. The "Witch Wars Defense Manual" offers advice on how to stand up to their psychological attacks and to stand up for your rights, no matter what your faith.

(PRWEB) June 1, 2005 -- While many Americans are becoming worried and fearful of the recent Christian Evangelical Movement's actions to consolidate political and judicial authority over the United States, some have more to fear than others. Among the Christian Conservatives stated goals is to 'wipe out Paganism in America.' This goal seeks to deny legal and Constitutional recognition of all non-biblical faiths as non-religions and corrupt.

This has direct consequences to a growing faith of Wicca, whose followers are know as Wiccans and often use the word Witch to describe themselves. But Wiccans are not being silent. Author Ed Hubbard has been speaking out, and has published the book 'Witch Wars Defense Manual.' The book explains the underpinnings to the current Christian march to power, and how bad it is going to get before it is all over.

According to Hubbard, "The Christian Evangelical movement is a very powerful group, who are engaging in a psychological war against the American and global population, and seek to deny true religious freedom in favor of a community based exclusively on Judeo-Christian values as interpreted by their leaders. If we are to preserve our freedom of religion, we must acknowledge the Culture War they have declared and understand their strategies, arguments, and tactics in order to protect ourselves."

In his book 'Witch Wars," he reveals ways Pagans fight among themselves, and then explains how Christians attack Pagans and Wiccans. He lays out timelines that show how and where spiritual battles occur and a how the public can anticipate where the next conflict that Christian Evangelics plan in their continued foray in taking back America.

This book is not for the timid; it is a manual that deals with religious conflict on a psychic and spiritual level of the subliminal mind. Examples show how religious leaders use psychological warfare to battle for the heart and soul of our United States, and offers hope to preserve the freedoms we all love and cherish. In "Witch Wars Defense Manual," readers are given the tools to stand up and even disarm those who would use religion as a weapon.

Hubbard, a Wiccan Priest of the Correllian Nativist Church, has personal experience with the Christian Evangelical movement protesting his beliefs, the most famous of which is bringing the Witch School Campus in Hoopeston, Ill, in June 2003. The protests created an international news story and has been the subject of many articles, interviews, and even into studies of religious conflict resolution. In his continued fight for religious freedom, Ed Hubbard continues to live in Hoopeston, where Christians and Pagans coexist in peace today.
 

Draka

Wonder Woman
Wow. Interesting...but sounds a bit exagerated to me. I have a hard time swallowing that something like that could be achieved. They might cause problems and harrassment and headaches...but to turn the whole country under Christian rule??? :sarcastic Like I said...hard to swallow.
 

Mister Emu

Emu Extraordinaire
Staff member
Premium Member
Christian Conservatives
Yay, more monstrously(sp) broad generalizations.

Edit: To clarify I consider myself a Christian Conservative, I have no plans, nor is it my goal to "wipe out Paganism". While if Biblical truth prevailed with pagans so much so as to make it a non-practiced religion I would be happy, I have no aggressive mission to wipe it out, and most certainly none to destroy the freedom of religion.
 

Magurk

xALFx Soldier
To Draka:

How is it hard to swallow? With a president like bush he can convince half of the nation into be christian ran. Even though most of his votes already are. I think Being christian is going to be the new trend :p
 

jeffrey

†ßig Dog†
I think some of these extremists need to read all the Bible they preach, not just bits and pieces they extract to attempt to fulfill their agenda. Even Jesus tought separation of Church from State. Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar? And the theme of parts in Romans teaches the same thing. Power and money corrupt. I wonder what percentage actually believe what they preach?
 

Kotaro

Member
I guess to the extremist, they interpret the Bible the way they see fit, and call it the truth, regardless of what it might really be saying.

The same thing applies with Polygamy among the Mormon families in the West. Where is solid proof that you may have two or more wives in the Bible? Not that I condone such practices but the NT seems to be pretty clear on the one wife, one husband thing does it not?
 

Draka

Wonder Woman
Magurk said:
To Draka:

How is it hard to swallow? With a president like bush he can convince half of the nation into be christian ran. Even though most of his votes already are. I think Being christian is going to be the new trend :p
It just is. I mean with the age we are in I just have a hard time buying that there would be the return of the burning times. While I don't actually believe that that would be the case the premise behind it would be the same. Call me optimistic, but I would like to think that we are a more advanced society than the times where prejudice and fear ran so rampant that intolerance was all that was known.

Besides...to believe that that would happen I would have to believe that all Christians would be behind the destruction of the constitution and our granted freedom of religion. This would place all Christians into a category of hate and fear driven people that must wipe out all that is not them...and that simply isn't true. To make this happen one would have to claim that Christianity itself is hate driven...it isn't...just some of those that follow the religion attribute to a shameful stereotype...along with some of every religion.

It boils down to the fact that it is not always the majority of people that are heard...but the minority who makes the loudest noise...that is what I believe this is. I only hope I am right.
 

Original Freak

I am the ORIGINAL Freak
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I'm ready...but I'm not in america...sorry.
 

Quiddity

UndertheInfluenceofGiants
This perceived war is nothing new. Haven't Christians been converting pagans for thousands of years?

~Victor
 

Pah

Uber all member
Victor said:
This perceived war is nothing new. Haven't Christians been converting pagans for thousands of years?

~Victor
I would have to agree. But I think it falls short of the recognition that America has set a new standard different from many past "conversions". Now we don't allow the power of the government to make the conversions for the Christian Church. That's been true for 200 plus years.
 

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
This perceived war is nothing new. Haven't Christians been converting pagans for thousands of years?
Yes, often by force, but i don't see how these particular Christian soldiers are going to be able to wipe out paganism, you can't force people to convert anymore.
 

Scott1

Well-Known Member
Halcyon said:
Yes, often by force, but i don't see how these particular Christian soldiers are going to be able to wipe out paganism, you can't force people to convert anymore.
It seems these "soldiers" are using the judiciary and politics as their "sword" of choice....
 

chuck010342

Active Member
pah said:
All Press Releases for June 1, 2005 from eMediaWire

pah said:
What if you were a Witch and you were told you were not an American because you are not Christian?

I would have the same reaction I do now even if I'm not a christian or a witch . I would ask the question "what country am I in?"

pah said:
For some today, this is what is happening as the Christian Right continues its declared culture war against the separation of Church and State,

What? Church and State has nothing to do with following Jesus. Dang christians never get it right

pah said:
according to author Ed Hubbard. The "Witch Wars Defense Manual" offers advice on how to stand up to their psychological attacks and to stand up for your rights, no matter what your faith.

I wouldn't consider that psychological attacks
 

Lloyd

Member
Last week a judge in Indianapolis forbid a husband and his wife from practicing their religion, Wicca around their son as part of a divorce case. This kind of stuff surprises me, but it doesn't terribly shock me either.
 

blueman

God's Warrior
Christianity should be inclusive, not exclusive. Such extreme activities should have no basis in the political or judicial arena. Jesus did not exclude, but offered His truth to all. God gives us a free will to choose and we should respect each other beliefs even though we may have different belief systems and respectfully disagree from time to time regarding religious issues. :)
 

EnhancedSpirit

High Priestess
Among the Christian Conservatives stated goals is to 'wipe out Paganism in America.'
Does this mean we will no longer be celebrating Christmas or Easter? They do have more pagan influences than Christian influence.
 

Fluffy

A fool
Oh how I love proselytising so. Its even easier when you target a group of religions in which a common attitude is one of anti-proselytising. Seems so unfair. At least they are outnumbered.
 

Ardent Listener

Active Member
It was not all that long ago that I found myself starting to being pulled into the "religious right".:bonk: It all started by listening to my local Christain radio station. I listened because I found the music they played to be inspitational. Then programs like those by Focus on the Family came on. I kept the radio on and listened. They started to convince me that Christains were the ones who are oppressed in our society. From that faulity premise they started to push their political agenda. Some how, politics and religion became one and the same.
Only conservative views are expressed on these stations. There is no way to express opinions that are not conservative. One would just assume that every Christain must feel this way. "Something must be wrong with your faith if you believe other wise." Thank God I attend a church that is not part of the evangelical right.
 
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