Letter To The Editor...
May. 5th, 2006 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarSo I read this story.... http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/85174.asp (no registration to read it)
And I wrote this letter in response. It's a little snarky, but you get the point. I got an email back saying they were going to use it.
I've found John Reynolds's article, "Playground pentagram to go"
to be rather disturbing. It seems that many people are afraid that having a
five-pinted star on their playground is going to draw "evil occultists" to
the spot. I wonder, is Leland Rhodes so worried about having fifty of the
same type of star on the American flag? What about forty-eight of them on
the presidential seal? And the (uh-oh!) thirteen arrows, and thirteen-leaved
olive branch? And let's not forget all of the Masonic symbolism on US
currency. Should we do away with that too? Did you know that some of the
streets in Washington, DC are laid out to form a pentagram? Let's remove the
stars from the flag, and change the seal, let's remove all of the evil
symbolism from our money and rerout the streets of our country's capital!
But did you as know that the pentagram was once used as a Christian symbol
to signify the five wounds of Christ? It is still found adorning many of the
older churches in Europe. It was abandoned when people started assigning
sinister meaning to its inverted form.
A five-pointed star...or any other star for that matter..is nothing more
than a star until someone assigns more meaning to it. As one who practices
one such religion that is often labeled "occultic", I think it's fairly safe
to say that these people who are in such a tizzy over the star care about it
far more than any of the occultists that they are so afraid of.
Besides, everyne knows that occultists practice in secret, hidden lairs,
right?
And I wrote this letter in response. It's a little snarky, but you get the point. I got an email back saying they were going to use it.
I've found John Reynolds's article, "Playground pentagram to go"
to be rather disturbing. It seems that many people are afraid that having a
five-pinted star on their playground is going to draw "evil occultists" to
the spot. I wonder, is Leland Rhodes so worried about having fifty of the
same type of star on the American flag? What about forty-eight of them on
the presidential seal? And the (uh-oh!) thirteen arrows, and thirteen-leaved
olive branch? And let's not forget all of the Masonic symbolism on US
currency. Should we do away with that too? Did you know that some of the
streets in Washington, DC are laid out to form a pentagram? Let's remove the
stars from the flag, and change the seal, let's remove all of the evil
symbolism from our money and rerout the streets of our country's capital!
But did you as know that the pentagram was once used as a Christian symbol
to signify the five wounds of Christ? It is still found adorning many of the
older churches in Europe. It was abandoned when people started assigning
sinister meaning to its inverted form.
A five-pointed star...or any other star for that matter..is nothing more
than a star until someone assigns more meaning to it. As one who practices
one such religion that is often labeled "occultic", I think it's fairly safe
to say that these people who are in such a tizzy over the star care about it
far more than any of the occultists that they are so afraid of.
Besides, everyne knows that occultists practice in secret, hidden lairs,
right?
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Date: 2006-05-05 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-05 08:01 pm (UTC)People are insane! In theatre, there's always a star marking center stage.... What is wrong wit these folks- serioulsy????
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Date: 2006-05-05 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 04:30 am (UTC)