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Why Should People be 'Allowed' to Trash Wicca? or It’s called free speech. Let's face it, the main reason why WiKKKans suck is their Fatwa against free speech --especially that of disenfranchised minority groups like historically/scientifically literate skeptics and American Indians who don't want their sacred ceremonies incorporated into the WiKKKan borg. Instead of fighting back with ideas, however, these cowards have viciously, relentlessly and illiberally worked to smother this flourishing cyber-universe of cultural and political discourse under a tangle of bullshit justifications ranging from free-expression of religion (which they deny American Indians by contaminating their religion) and ironically, religious tolerance. Their ruthless campaign against dissent represents the most sustained attack on free political speech in the United States since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. No minority group should need the permission of these sanctimonious, pious hypocrites to express themselves. The WiKKKan Fatwa against free speech undermines real education about alternative spirituality. It is so extensive in cyber-space that it is now easier to criticize the Bu$h mis-administration than it is to criticize WiKKKans. These pious posers have shut down hundred of web sites of individuals and groups who simply tried to analyze and criticize them. They have created a climate of repression in cyber-space that no decent person should tolerate. Every thinking person has the right to demand more than this brainless, limited pabulum.
Web Sites Critical of Wicca Hecate Does Harvard Notes on Academic Criticism of Wiccan Practice by P. Aaron Potter (65 pages) (http://fp.uni.edu/jrae/New_Folder/Potter.pdf ) Regarding Organized Paganism And Wicca by Susan Baskin. Her analysis dovetails nicely with my theory that a lot of the appeal of the Wiccan belief system is simply "victim hood appropriation".(http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8980.htm) Dave's Journal: Important Essays on Wicca (http://davensjournal.com/index.htm?IE.xhtml&2) Wicca: A bullshit religion Posted by: Morivici (http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/gossip/610/69.html) Wicca and Wiccan Religion - A Critical View. (http://www.assiah.net/religion-and-groups/wicca-and-witches/wicca-and-wiccan-religion-a-critical-view.htm) Wicca: A Fad ReligionPosted By: nibbeny (http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/gossip/610.html) Witches' Brew at Winter Solstice: How Wiccans do themselves in by Mark Oppenheimer Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005 (http://www.slate.com/id/2132858/) A Critique of Wicca AND OTHER NEO-PAGAN DISCLAIMERS ABOUT SATANISM by Diane Vera (http://members.chello.at/herbert.paulis/Wds.htm) How the Internet is Ruining Wicca (www.angelfire.com/rant/ingwitch/net.html) Why Wicca Sucks – The site was well written and well researched, so of course it had to go This content is preserved here ORIGINAL SITE: Why Wicca Sucks The site was well written and well researched, so of course it had to go. (http://www.wiccaweb.com/suck_stagnation.php
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Wicca for the rest of us Stop the Fluff. Think for yourself. Fight the bunny. (http://wicca.timerift.net/ ) Keep Wicca traditional a protest against the dilution of what it means to be a Wiccan (http://www.oocities.org/SoHo/Square/7290/) Wiccan Censorship WICCAUK site Censors open debate about Christian Clergy Abuse. A study in ongoing Wiccan ignorance? A response to the dictatorial on the Wiccauk forum by the Pagan Anti-defamation Network (http://www.patregan.freeuk.com/wiccauk.htm ) The Problem with Silver Ravenwolf by Smiling Panther, Oct. 15th 2001 (http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/vanthal/608/id57.htm#) Traditional Family Witchcraft: A Dying Art in a Thriving Industry (http://forum.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=48490) The Goddess Has No Clothes A review ofThe Goddess Unmasked by Philip G. Davis (Book Review: www.debunker.com/texts/PGDavis2.html) BIGOTRY IN WICCA (http://www.oocities.org/mark_hendricks78/Hellenic_Pagan_Midwest.html) Why Wicca is Not Celtic Why Wicca is Not Celtic prepared by Iain Mac AnTsaior (http://www.draeconin.com/database/wicca2.htm ) Why Wicca Is Not Celtic v.3.2by Iain Mac an tSaoir and Dawn O'Laoghaire (http://www.clannada.org/wicca.php ) Celtic Reconstructionist Links (http://paganachd.com/faq/ethics.html) Why Wicca Is Not Celtic Paganism (http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Wicca_and_Celtic_Paganism/id/35252 ) Cultural Appropriation New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans a bulletin board where you can go to find out what Native Americans really think of neo-paganism, the New Age and Wicca (http://newagefraud.org/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi) Some Readings on Cultural Appropriations, Native America, and the New Age by Diane Bell Henry R. Luce Professor of Religion, Economic Development, and Social JusticeHoly Cross College, Worcester MA 01610 1996 (http://www.hanksville.org/sand/intellect/NAbibBell.html) Native American Tarot NOT! (http://www.lelandra.com/comptarot/tarotindian.htm) Fisher, Barbara A Review of Phyllis Curott's Witchcrafting November 14, 2001
Gaia Shamanism and Cultural Imperialism (www.cosmicwind.net/800/CWind/FreedomVoices/Shamanism.html) Seeking Native American Spirituality: Read This First! from the Home Page of Orrin Lewis (http://www.native-languages.org/religion.htm) Twinkie Paganism (www.bkwyrm.net/") (site removed) HOW WICCANS GIVE PROGRESSIVES A BAD NAME Is Wicca Counter-revolutionary? Has Wicca Made the Feminist Movement Loose it’s Radical Edge? Beyond Culture verses Politics: A Case Study of a Local Women’s Movement by Suzanne Staggenborg in Gender & Society, Vol. 15, No. 4, 507-530 (2001) Sociologists for Women in Society McGill University. Doug Beaumont 's Thinking 101 Thinking was too offensive to Wikkkanz, so they had it removed from the internet Why Wiccans Suck (Mirror site: http://whywiccansstillsuck.bravehost.com) Some Critiques of Goddess New Age Some Critiques of the Feminist/New Age "Goddess" Claims on Marija Gimbutas' 'Idyllic Goddess' Theories from "Idyllic Theory of Goddess Creates Storm" by Peter Steinfels (New York Times, Feb. 13, 1990) (www.debunker.com/texts/goddess.html) THOUGHT CRIMINALS: Flim Flam Dot Com Flim Flam dot com Exposes fraud, confidence games, scams, rip-offs, swindles, rackets, shell games, deceptions and flimflam. (www.flimflam.com) Bad Astronomy: The Cost of uncritical thinking (www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/05/30/the-cost-of-uncritical-thinking) Australian skeptics (70 pages) (www.skeptics.com.au/journal/2003/4.pdf) The Church of Critical Thinking (www.churchofcriticalthinking.com/archives/print000032an_open_letter_to_ya.html) The Church of Critical Thinking FORUM (www.churchofcriticalthinking.com/forum) The Rationalists: Why are we pushing Wicca on girls instead of Science? (www.rationalists.org/rc/1998_winter/why_are_we_pushing_witchcraft_on.htm) Skeptic Tank: So where's the proof? "Superstitious beliefs don't feed people, science does." (http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/proof.htm) Skeptic Friends Network (www.skepticfriends.org) The Skeptical Gourmet (http://members.tripod.com/Skeptic12) James Randi Psychic Challenge (skepdic.com/randi.html) Skeptic’s Dictionary (www.skepdic.com) Doug Beaumont 's Thinking 101 (www.souldevice.org/rant_thinking101.htm) The Nazi Occult Roots of WiKKKa The Pentagram and the Hammer Devyn Gillette and Lewis Stead (http://www.webcom.com/~lstead/wicatru.html) 'Germanic', 'Celtic' 'pagan' religion, and the far Right (www.stelling.nl/simpos/asatru.htm) The Rainbow Swastica: The Rainbow Swastika: A Report to the Jewish People about New Age AntiSemitism by Hannah Newman -- (searchlight.iwarp.com/articles/searchlight.html)freeway@netvision.net.il Anti-Fluff Bunny Sites Fluff Bunny Trad(www.fluffbunnytrad.com) A Life full of trivial BS blog (http://berrygirl86.chattablogs.com/) The anti-fluffy movement among pagans (www.angelfire.com/ny5/dvera/pagan/anti-fluff.html) What makes a Fluff Bunny (davensjournal.com/index.htm?WMaF.xhtml&2) On Reactionary Wiccans: The Anti-Fluffy Bunny Movement in Wicca & Its Accomplishments (krista.rupture.net/wicca/essays/001039.htm) Ranting Witches Message Board (www.rantingwitches.com)(Content Blocked) Witchy Thoughts – Fluff Bunnies (www.soulrebels.com/beth/fluffy.html) Discussion of the anti-Fluff Bunny movement (nodigio3.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_nodigio3_archive.html) Historical Inaccuracies in Wicca The Goddess Myth: The "golden age" of female divinities was a bad time for women by Judith Antonelli excerpted from On the Issues, (Summer 1997) (tftb.com/deify/goddessmyth.htm) (Site Removed) Women’s Spirituality, and History, Beyond Paralyzing Polarities (muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/v017/17.2bednarowski.pdf) Pseudo History Fluff Bunnies and Wicca (http://www.ecauldron.com/wiccarant.php) Why I Don’t Like Scott Cunningham (www.wildideas.net/temple/library/letters/cunningham1.html) Pagans Against Bad History (jadefyre.home.att.net/a/pabh.html ) (Content Blocked) The Priory of Sion Hoax (www.alpheus.org/html/articles/esoteric_history/richardson1.html)Great Resource for Source Materials on Esoteric History ALPHEUS: Site for Esoteric History Theosophy (www.alpheus.org/index.html) Theosophy is the basis for most New Age philosophies, neo-paganism and feminist spirituality as well as the basis for the Nazi Occult. This is an ugly truth that very few neo-pagans are willing to deal with honestly. A thinking person of integrity should learn all s/he can about how this belief system shaped the Nazi occult before blindly accepting modern neo-paganism. National socialism is on the rise in the United States. The Obsidian Mirror
(site removed) GERALD GARDNER AND ALIESTER CROWLEY – Facts about the White boyz that made up WiKKKa B.C. B. C. Holmes on Paganism: A Biography of Gerald Brosseau Gardner (www.bcholmes.org/wicca/gardner.html ) Marxist Analysis of Wicca HOW WICCANS GIVE PROGRESSIVES A BAD NAME Is Wicca Counter-revolutionary? The Struggle for Social Justice: The Complete Opposite of What Wicca Is The Wiccan Rede: A Marxist Analysis (www.widdershins.org/vol10iss5/08.htm ) Neo-Paganism's Link to Racism Russian Neo-pagan Myths and Antisemitism by Victor A. Shnirelman (sicsa.huji.ac.il/13shnir.html) Scary Pagans National Socialist Neo-pagan groups (www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/poland.htm) Russiona Neo-Pagan Myths and Anti-Semitism (www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/edustud/sal/pagan/pagan10.pdf) Socialist Critisism of the Da Vinci Code and by extention, neo-pagan feminism (www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/dvc-m25.shtml) New Age Facism (gridlock.gn.apc.org/ecofasc.htm) HUMOR How to Become A Witch in Nine Easy Lessons (www.ecauldron.com/humor17.php ) Pagan Humor (www.ecauldron.com/humorindex.php ) The Wiccan Name Generator (www.elessacar.com/wiccan_name_creator.php) How to Recognize Humor (www.ecauldron.com/humor62.php) Wiccan Fatwa (www.winterscapes.com/sannion/wiccan_fatwa.htm) Landover Baptist Church (landoverbaptist.org/) How to Impress Anti-Fluff Bunnies (www.oocities.org/tribhis/impressantifluff.html site removed) try: (davensjournal.com/index.htm?HtIAFB.xhtml&2) The Sacred and Holy Rite of the Fluff Bunny Goddess: A Ritual for the Spring Equinox Lady Phaedra (www.cuups.org/content/liturgy/ritual/bunnyprint.html ) Why Wiccans Suck sucks Interesting commentary - says a lot about the character of the people who put it up. (rw.faithweb.com/alphawws.html) Fluffy bunny defined by Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffy_bunny) Fluffy Bunny Behavior 101 (pagandiversity.com/fluffy.html) Pagan Fluff Bunny Rehabilitation Center (www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/index.php?gmode=index&guild_id=325 ) Bulletin Boards and Forums The problems with WICCA – Internet Infidels http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-7809.html Internet Infidels Discussion Board http://www.iidb.org/vbb/index.php Journals Allen, Charlotte, January 2001 " The Scholar and the Goddess" in Atlantic Monthly “Historically speaking, the ‘ancient’ rituals of the Goddess movement are almost certainly bunk” (jbburnett.com/resources/atlmo-goddesses/atl-mo-allen-goddesses.html )
BOOKS Please DO NOT purchase books from Amazon dot com. They censor Native Americans who complain about fraudulent authors. Sign the online petition to support Indigenous Cultural Workers Carroll, Robert Todd. (2003). The Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality Spence Publishing, 1998.ISBN: 1-890626-20-1 Goode, Erich.Paranormal Beliefs: A Sociological Introduction Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000. Pp. 310. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 1-57766-076-5. Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 (published 1985 Randi, James. (1982). Flim-Flam! Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-198-3 (www.randi.org/shopping) Hobson, Geary. 1978. 'The Rise of White Shaman as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism.' In The Remembered Earth, edited by Geary Hobson, Albuquerque, Red Earth Press, pp. 100-108.(Read online: www.jstor.org/view/00107484/ap040132/04a00040/0) Rose, Elliot Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in the History of Witchcraft and Diabolism (Scholarly reprint series) Toronto Univ of Toronto Press 1962. ISBN 0802070558 Read online: (www.jstor.org/view/0043373x/ap050061/05a00380/0) Rose, Wendy 1992. "The Great Pretenders: Further Reflections on Whiteshamanism." In The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance, edited by Annette Jaimes, South End Press, Boston, pp. 403-421. Read online excerpts: (www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98122260) (http://books.google.com/books?id=CJb41xwjnPYC&pg=PP13&lpg=PP13&dq=the+state+of+native+america+genocide+colonization+and+resistance&source=web&ots=MMwVPql51f&sig=Imd_2-aXMTwLAAYlZ3NLGWYHbRQ#PRA1-PA403,M1) Spretnak, Charlene The Politics of Women’s Spirituality Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement (Paperback) This book isn’t necessarily critical of Wicca and neo-paganism, but the intelligent reader can see how far from the original principles the "craft" has diverged. HQ 1154 .P6 Wallis, Robert J. Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans Wallis; Routledge, 2003. ISBN : 041530203X Read excerpts online: (www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=103955673) (online excerpts: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNxliLtNVyYC&dq=%22shamans+neo+shamans%22+ecstasies+alternative+archaeologies+and+contemporary+pagans&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=9dyelAlBic&sig=Tg6B_CeeMZo-7yyDiBsJCiT553A#PPP1,M1) Washington, Peter. Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: Theosophy and the Emergence of the Western Guru London: Secker & Warburg, 1993; ISBN 0-436-56418-1,. (1995 American edition subtitled: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America). Source: (http://www.whywiccanssuck.com/twessay.html) Copyright www.WhyWiccansSuck.com
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