Hard Words

While Witchvox is politically neutral, and generally speaking tries to strike a balance between the “left” and “right” in it’s commentary. This weeks essays seem to show the disappointment and frustration by modern Pagans with the recent win by Bush.

The first from Grey Wolf advocates going into hiding if the worst should happen and a Bush adminsitration should start targetting Pagans as “domestic terrorists”.

“What is Wolfie going to do if he wakes up one morning and finds that, whilst he slept, the good men and women on Capital Hill have made him a criminal? My plan is deliciously simple: I’m going to convert. I am going to join the nearest, most “liberal” approved church I can find, I am going to “accept Jesus as my Savior,” scrape those evil bumper stickers off my car and pound a six-foot crucifix into my front lawn where the Neighborhood Witch-Watch can clearly see it. I am going to hang a big-ass (Celtic) cross around my neck (or maybe one of those really “stealthy” Thor’s Hammers), and rehearse my story that I won’t have my Pagan tattoos removed so that they can “remind me and others of the years I spent in darkness, hidden from the sight of God. Praise Jesus!”‘

Meanwhile Dana Corby asks us if we are scared yet?

“The current administration are Dominionists TO A MAN – they believe their God is requiring them to outlaw or destroy every religion on earth except their own particular brand of paranoid millenialist Christianity. If we do not get them out of office NOW, in another few years Paganism, along with Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism, Catholicism and the Boy Scouts, will be illegal.”

Finally, John L Robinson tells us why he is an Anarchist.

“When you vote in a system, you acknowledge the legitimacy of that system. You agree to abide by the decision, even if it wasn’t the one you voted for. That is the essence of the democratic process: the majority rules (as Pagans in America, that should give you pause right there). That is why we don’t vote; we do not consider the process legitimate, and we make no promise to abide by the decision of the majority, the “people.” There is a saying, “Only those who vote have the right to complain.” I consider this nonsense. The voter knew the “wrong” choice could be made, but he still approves that choice being implemented, by the very act of participating in the system that chose it. He has no right to complain. He knew what we could be getting into.”

Not too many inspirational words or rallying cries there. No doubt many of us need a little time to adjust to what the next four years is going to bring us, and hopefully we can face the future together and prevent some of the darker speculations outlined in these essays.

Tags: Neopaganism