Monday, December 17, 2007

Witches vs. Baby Jesus

Stephen Vincent Benet gave us "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Bob Lonsberry gives us what I'll call "The Pentacle Debacle":
See, Baby Jesus ticks off witchcraft people. They're all about tolerance for themselves, but are pretty darned intolerant of others. That's how this whole diversity thing goes. Acceptance is demanded for everything — except the values, opinions, faith and culture of the majority. Multiculturalism is about the sanitizing of culture, about the eradication of the mainstream culture.
So, like I said, the witchcraft people got ticked off. Though there might just have been one of them. At any rate, figuring that actually walking up and urinating on the Baby Jesus would stir up the locals, it looks like folks decided to go for the next best thing. That's how the 10-foot by 10-foot Wicca symbol got built in the shadow of the stable. It was a big square, with a dark blue background and a white circle. Inside the white circle was a white five-pointed star against a light-blue background. That's a pentacle.
And the Wicca lady — who looks nothing like Elvira or Elizabeth Montgomery — said it had to go up now because the winter solstice is some sort of witchcraft holiday or something. Read all … [HT: Spirit Daily]

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