Pagan band demands "quiet area for fornication"

Ananova ^ | June 20, 2003

[Jimmyclyde]

Pagan band demands 'quiet area for sex'

A pagan rock band is demanding a "quiet area for fornication" during a summer solstice celebration in Birmingham.

The event, billed as a family fun day out, has been condemned by the Church of England, reports the Birmingham Evening Mail.

Headliners Inkubus Sukkubus demanded the "fornicatorium" at the event, which is being held to mark the longest day of the year.

Managers at the Custard Factory venue confirmed a quiet area would be provided for the group, fronted by female vocalist Candia.

A spokesman said: "They said they needed a quiet fornicatorium. They say it is a fertility rite. The singer goes into a trance-like state. We don't quite know what will happen once the frenzied activity begins."

Druids from across the country will descend on the Custard Factory for the celebration, which is billed as a perfect day out for the whole family, on Saturday.

Rhiannon Biddulph, of the UK Pagan Association, said: "There are certain festivals were we celebrate the creation of life where you have to have sex. Most pagans have a fairly relaxed attitude to sex."

But a spokesman for the Church of England in Birmingham said: "It seems the Druids have overdosed on the magic mushrooms when arranging this event. It beggars belief that this kind of tackiness and tawdriness is being promoted as a cultural family event."

Story filed: 11:27 Friday 20th June 2003

[wimpycat]

When my cat died recently, we considered giving him a Viking funeral...little tiny boat set aflame in the Neuse River, with his cans of tuna and his bearskin rug.

An Egyptian style funeral would have been more appropo, but the Viking had a little more pizzazz.

[youngjim]

Which brings me back to my original point--you are wound too tight. Fornicators are sinners. You're a sinner. Sin is not the problem, lack of forgiveness is the problem. Sin, as the poor, will always be with us, that these people want a place to have sex is only a problem for the puritans/pharisees who are more concerned with people's souls after they're dead. This pietous claptrap will save no one from eternal damnation and your 'sincere' ministrations aside, I find your attitude insulting.

Prosetylizers like yourself hand the left a club to beat righties with all the time. Next time you feel the urge to sniff about the sin of fornicators keep it to yourself

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

6 ¶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7)

[RightOnline]

"There are several instances in the Bible where God commands the "ripping up" of pregnant women who God took a disliking to."

Show me.

[Dead Corpse]

Building a pyramid for your cat would have reuiqred some slaves and a building permit. Both are hard to get these days.

Condolences on your cat. My in-laws lost one while we were up there over Father's day. Sheba was only 4 years old. Sad...

[Chances Are]

Managers at the Custard Factory venue confirmed a quiet area would be provided for the group, fronted by female vocalist Candia.

This is incredibly ambiguous and bad writing. Is Candia fronting for the managers at the Custard Factory? Is she fronting for the quiet area? Is she fronting for the band?

All kinds of possibilities, huh?

CA....

[Dead Corpse]

Why? Lose you Bible?

2 Kings 15:16
Menahem sat on the throne and did these things with God's blessing unto the Fourth generation.

In Hosea 13:16, God gives them Ephraim, regrets it, then advocates destroying the Samarians because they got upset with him over the whole Ephraim thing.

A "just" God? A "loving" God? Yeah right...

[wimpycat]

I wasn't worried about the pyramid, it was the embalming fees that would have kicked our butt.

But seriously, we ended up having him cremated...so it was a "modified Viking".

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Great minds think alike..

Indeed. (Or is that 'warped minds'?)

[twigs]

Yes, I am concerned about sin, but it's ok because Jesus took care of it for me. My dearly departed Anglo-Saxon ancestors aren't in Valhalla. If I read the wills many of them have left throughout the centuries, then it will be my pleasure to greet them in heaven when I get there.

[twigs]

I left you a reply to us your personal email.

[Dead Corpse]

All the more Mead and roast pig for the rest of us...
Although you may want to make your peace with Frey and Odin just to cover your bets... Hel is no place for a warrior to spend enternity.

[RussianConservative]

Orthodox Christian world view not see original sin as condemnation. It caused the fallen world but none of us bare his sin. Each of us free will and born pure, we answer for our actions. It is Catholic/Protestant world view of original sin you use.

[RussianConservative]

Eye, with souls of slain enemies as slaves.

[twigs]

I did not realize that the Orthodox and Catholic churches had such essential differences.

[Dead Corpse]

Eye, with souls of slain enemies as slaves.

Someone needs to clean up after a hard eons worth of feasting. The Valkyries sure as heck ain't gonna do it.

[RussianConservative]

That come from dictatorial rule of 1 Overlord of Church, vs councils of Church fathers.

[RussianConservative]

Them??? Hehhehehe, the original faminazies?

[msdrby]

ROTFL!!

[Dead Corpse]

They ain't so different from regular women once you get past the armor and the purple eyes. I like tall wenches with a bit of muscle. It'd be almost worth getting knicked by a spear or two.

[RussianConservative]

Yeah, but big sword, big ego and big penis envy...can be big to much.