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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Pentagrams
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.012754.24448@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec20.034109.12591@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:27:54 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- porta@wam.umd.edu (David Delaney Palmer) writes:
- : In article <71824@cup.portal.com> Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva) writes:
- : >I only have one question for those moralists (especially from 'earth-based'
- : >religions) who preach that the 'point-down' or 'inverted' pentagram
- : >(heptagram, nonagram, or even trigram!) is somehow indicative of 'evil'
- : >or 'malevolence':
- : >
- : >
- : >Toward what, precisely, is the point directed?
- : >
- : >
- : >Figure it out, kiddies.
- :
- : I think you need to figure it son! There is no such thing as
- : a hell or a devil in earth based, Goddess based religions. The next
- : time you post know what the hell you are talking about.
-
- Have you heard of Hades? How much do you know about Greek, and other,
- ancient mythologies? How many of the wiccan, much less pagan, sect have
- you experienced?
-
- Do you believe that all the goddess based religions are based on all
- lightness and goodness and froth? It is true that the "devil" is a
- Judeo-Christian invention. So what? Many other religions have daemons
- or evil spirits or evil deities.
-
- I suggest you do a little more research before you spout off at the mouth
- again. I submit that Thyagi probably knows far more about the various
- religions than you do.
-
- Bill
-