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Pagans proud but not loud - Financial Post

Financial Post: In a quiet grove in a quiet park in the middle of the city earlier this month, about 50 mostly youngish people in various sorts of attire formed a rough circle on the damp grass. The area they created was a frith, a kind of sacred space. Four participants at equidistant points in the circle faced away from the others and held aloft hammers –not the claw kind from Canadian Tire but those heavy T-shaped implements the Norse god Thor would wield. …

(Via Google News)

Why it’s dangerous to be a witch in a recession.

Slate Magazine: “Why did people murder suspected witches in Renaissance Europe? And why do they still do so today in sub-Saharan Africa? As someone whose main source of information about witch trials is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I was fascinated to learn that witch-burning has its own grim economics.

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(Via Slate Magazine.)

The Press Association: Council’s internet filter slammed

The Press Association: Council’s internet filter slammed: “A council has been told that it could face legal action for blocking its workers from looking at atheist websites.
Software used by Birmingham City Council stops employees from accessing sites about atheist beliefs, but sites about conventional religions are readily available.
The National Secular Society said that such filtering was discriminatory and it may take legal action against the council unless it changes its policy.”

(Via UKPress.)