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Edit: this is the religious liberty you've heard so much about.
MADISON, Wis. — The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.
A settlement between the U.S. Department ofVeterans Affairs and Wiccans adds the five-pointed star to the list of "emblems of belief" allowed on VA grave markers.
Eleven families nationwide are waiting for grave markers with the pentacle, said Selena Fox, a Wiccan high priestess with Circle Sanctuary in Barneveld, Wis., a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
To be fair, the symbol itself is not inherently evil. The pentacle/pentagram was used as a Judeo-Christian symbol long before the occultists, freemasons, and neo-pagans successively co-opted it. It, unlike the Cabalistic hexagram, was a common emblem in Old Testament Israel, and was later employed by Christians under the name of Star of Bethlehem, and regarded by as symbolic of both that star and of the Five Wounds.
ReplyDeleteIn a similar way, the enemies of Christ have appropriated the inherently Christian symbol of the inverted Cross of St. Peter.
Big deal - let people have what they want. Your title is most inappropriate as you cannot and do not determine who goes to hell. Unless you are God . . . . .
ReplyDeleteYou are offended? Big deal, besides, your comment doesn't mean anything, unless you're divine. Still, there's nothing in this story or the comment above which consigns anyone to Hell.
ReplyDeleteWho are you to judge anyway? You don't even appear capable of basic reading comprehension.
I should be outraged, but I'm not. Since the US is formed on the principles of freemasonry (one of the main tenants being religious indifference) it would stand to reason that this is just par for the course.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am curious about, is the general composition of pagan troops within the armed services.