Hocky Cocky

According to an article in the newspaper "The Sunday post" the song "The Hocky Cocky" ( or if you are American "The Hocky Pockey") is anti-Catholic. Apparently when it was first performed it was to take the mickey out of the priesthood ( although I feel those pointy hats did that already) and the words about putting left hand in and left hand out etc were all about the movements the priest made during the mass ritual. So the Catholic church want this song banned and especially baned and football matches for fear it will be used as sectarian chanting. My feeling on this are 1. Very few people knew the original reason for this song, for the vast majority it is a fun song sung at parties for many,many years. 2. The song has been sung on the football terraces for years so to ban it now would be unfair.3. Nobody would have know about it's original meaning if the church had not told them, they are creating trouble when there was none previously.

So my words to the catholic church are these. I will stop singing "The Hockey Cockey" if you allow the use of Condom's in high AIDS countries, I will stop singing "The Hockey Cockey" if you allow women to become priests and I will stop singing "The Hockey Cockey" if you stop covering up for the emotional,physical and sexual abuse of the children in the churches care over the years. So do we have a deal?

Winter Solstice

It's the Winter Solstice on Sunday, a time that many Pagans use to celebrate the birth and rebirth of the Sun God. I don't celebrate the solstice that way; for me it IS a celebration of birth and of re birth but the birth (and re birth) of my awareness of Satan and of the ending of the dogma of which I had previously been told to believe. I like to call this awareness " The Awakening" click here for my sermon on this idea. Going into a new year it is hoped that my knowledge ( and love) of Satan will grow as the year grows older.

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Samhain

It will soon be the Samhain ( Oct 31) which is also the Pagan new year. This time of year we, Pagans, look back on our year and be thankful for all experiences we have had, be them good or bad. We also start thinking of the future and what we plan to achieve in the coming year. For me I know that I want to be more pro-active in my Religion, I want to make more of an effort to celebrate Rite's, rituals and Holidays. I feel that over the past year all those have been put aside for no real reason well perhaps laziness. I have been so caught up in the mundane things in life that the spiritual has been forgotten and for me the spiritual is just as important. Sure I pray every day and I help others with their religious and spiritual problems but i have neglected my own spiritual side. So the new year for me will bring balance and that is good.

An awesome pro- Christian rant

This is from the American comedian Margret Cho. It truly is a great read. In between the jokes and the swearing she really does have some amazing things to say. You can tell that her dad was a minister.

I’m a Christian, you FuckersAll kinds of Christians are getting mad about my Sarah Palin comments, and it is pissing me off.First of all – you fucking fake Christians - don’t fucking question my Christianity. I grew up in the church. My grandfather was a minister, who is with God now and talks to me in my dreams from God’s corner office. I am a former Sunday school teacher. I taught the Bible to children and showed them how to love God and invite him into their hearts. I believe in God – but I don’t fear him. God is my best friend. God is my ally. God is my boyfriend. God is my best fag. I am God’s fag hag cuz didn’t you know, God is a big fag. Serious bottom too. Butch in the streets, femme in the sheets. That is my God. God is my biggest fan. God gets me, dude.God wants us all to just get along. He doesn’t give a shit about the profanity. The bitch fucking invented profanity. He thinks it is hilarious. He just wants you to talk to him, and he doesn’t care what you have to say. He just wants to keep the conversation going. Like Jay-Z,he just wants to love you. He just wants you to be able to make your own decisions. God is all about you and what you need. God is happy that you are gay. God made you fucking gay cuz he thinks it is awesome. God understands if you need to have an abortion. That is why he created abortion, on the 8th day. God accepts. God forgives. God loves all of us, even though some of us might have a problem with each other.Don’t fucking question my Christianity you fucking idiot assholes. If you continue to have a problem, then talk to God about it, not me, you fucking racist homophobic misogynist fake Christian shitheads. God thinks it is funny that I swear so much. He said I could use his name in vain or whatever. He just wants me to use it. He loves me. So fuck you. And I guess he loves you too. Even though you are fake Christian assholes. If you were truly Christians, you would let gays get married, and send them fucking presents from Bed Bath and Beyond!If you truly believed in Jesus, you would try to be like him and love us, fags and dykes and feminists all. God bless you, even you. You fucking fuckers.

Everyone is a critic.....................................

and every theistic satanist is a sermon writing minister. Well most Satanists anyway. This is one aspect of the scene i really love, we all have something to say and you know what? we damn well say it. Even if (like me) the punctuation is a bit off, the spelling is a bit shabby or the fact that most of what we have to say has been said before. We don't let any of that stop us and why should it? After all there is nothing new under the sun (as some person once said) Many of us are also becoming ordained in the "Universal life church" or institutions that are equivalent. which is fantastic as we are joining an organization that actively embraces religious difference and seeing that as a good thing. Everyone of us (regardless of religious beliefs) have the right to share their beliefs with people but of course we should not force people to listen nor should we force them to believe what we believe. How boring would that kind of world be?

Censorship

I'm writing this edition of my blog from a library in the great city of Glasgow. During a surfing stint on the net I thought I would check out my website to see if i had a message from my mate Richard. Only to find that my site has been banned by the Glasgow council. One can only assume it is because it has Satan in it's title and satanist in it's web address. What annoyed me more was that, while looking for info for a uni essay; i typed in christian and got gazillion of sites so much for freedom of religion. By banning my site it makes it look like i have some really dodgy copy on it. I don't feel i do. Wonder if I had "Satan" in my blog title, if they would have banned me?

There is a guy next to me booking tickets for a play, on his blackberry and he is reading aloud his credit card number lol if only i was a fast typer, I would be booking tickets to Bali lol

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The Sikh girl

I think it's disgraceful that Sarika Singh won her court case against her school, for excluding her for wearing her religious bracelet. The school had a policy that no jewelry other than a watch and stud earrings should be worn on school premises. She knew this when she started at the school. She should have went and studied else where. She has made herself stand put from the crowd which is normally not a bad thing but in this case, it will cause her much grief. She has shown that she is not prepared to integrate into secular society, people get nervous and suspicious of people who deliberately segregate themselves. Look at the Jews as an example, much anti-semitism was cause by their instance of separatism from non Jews. So what is so special about this bracelet then?

The bangle is used to represent infinity therefore God, many Sikhs say that when it (The bangle) hits against something, they are reminded of God's existence and of his love. The bangle forms part of "The 5 K's" that are worn by Sikhs that follow the khalsa brand of Sikhism. The 5 k's are

1. Kesh (uncut hair)
2. Kangha ( comb)
3. Kirpan (Sword)
4. Kachh (Cotton breeches)
5. Kara (Bangle)

Interestingly the "Kara" was not one of the K's until the 17th century.

This isn't an anti-Sikhism post, on the contrary I really like Sikhism. I just feel that now the world is becoming more and more integrated religiously we need to have places where religion is not an issue and schools ( apart from R.E lessons) should be that place. Rules should apply to everyone. Or the rules should be changed.

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Cosmic ordering

Recently I bought a book all about Cosmic ordering. It was the book that gave Noel Edmonds the chance to re-start his career . It is actully a very good read and it's a short book which is always good. Basiclly it teaches that you can have anything you want as long as you ask the cosmos for it. For example before you go out to the supermarket, you could aks the cosmos to let you get a
parking space when you get there. Aparently it (Cosmic ordering) works better with happy people, as the univesre likes happy people. I haven't tried it yet but I will soon. I might even post the results here.

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