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Student fights to wear Wiccan necklace
Associated Press ^
| September 5, 2002
Posted on 09/05/2002 1:11:32 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:11:32 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
What if a swastika is part of someone's religion?
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:14:12 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
To: Dog Gone
Naturally, the display of a Star of David and Crucifix are banned as well. Freedom of religion does not apply to Christians only.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:16:10 PM PDT
by
Hodar
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To: AppyPappy
What if a swastika is part of someone's religion?Then they get to wear it. A Glock 19 is part of my religion but I am considering worshiping a .40 instead. Bigger holes.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:18:29 PM PDT
by
ibbryn
To: Freedom4UsAll
IIRC, the swastika, before being co-opted by the Nazis, was a sacred symbol to both Asian and Native American cultures. Anybody know anything about this? I have seen "Holiday Cards" from the early 20th century that had the Swastika on them. But I know little on the subject.
To: AppyPappy
"What if a swastika is part of someone's religion?"If it rotates the opposite way it's a Christian symbol, a variation of a cross.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:18:48 PM PDT
by
spunkets
To: Dog Gone
There is a difference between a pentacle and a pentagram. In a pentagram (typically associated with devil worship) the fifth point of the star points downward, where the star of a pentacle points up.
To: Freedom4UsAll
The school decides what is disruptive. They can decide a cross is disruptive if they want.
To: AppyPappy
What if a swastika is part of someone's religion? It is part of the Hindu religion.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:21:01 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: shadowman99
But with freedom of religion, it shouldn't matter to anyone. Unless we just want to disregard those parts in the Bill of Rights that aren't conventient
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:21:25 PM PDT
by
Hodar
To: AppyPappy
Warning: Contents contain sarcasm
What if a swastika is part of someone's religion?
Didn't the swastika originate in India?
Also, isn't that symbol on certain Native American petroglyphs.
In this polically correct world, sounds like they have it in for East Indians and American Indians, too.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:21:39 PM PDT
by
NEWwoman
To: AppyPappy
The school decides what is disruptive. They can decide a cross is disruptive if they want. They can't decide away the First Amendment.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:23:32 PM PDT
by
gdani
To: Freedom4UsAll
Didn't mean to ignore you post, but you beat me to it while I was posting (#13). We were thinking alike.
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posted on
09/05/2002 1:23:42 PM PDT
by
NEWwoman
To: NEWwoman
I wonder what they would do if Muslims kids started wearing swastikas to celebrate their beliefs.
To: gdani
Oh yes they can and they do. That's why you can't pray in aloud in school. The school decides what is disruptive.
To: Dog Gone
Once again misinformation and ignorance runs rampant in a bureacracy. The pentacle is ancient, now closely associated with the Wicca belief and has NOTHING to do with Satanism/Devil Worship. Yes, Satanist do wear up, usually upside down, just like they do the cross. (because they are sick, demented little people who cant come up their own beliefs so they pervert others)
Here is a link to a Website that gives a somewhat lengthy explanation of the Pentacle and its symbolism in the Wiccan/Pagan practice.
http://www.witchvox.com/basics/pentacle.html
To: shadowman99
Wrong. A Pentacle is just a five-pointed star. A Pentagram is a five-pointed star inside a circle.
As for inverted versions, with the point facing up, or north... it means an emphasis on the spiritual. Inverted, or facing south, it an emphasis on the physical. The inverted pentagram is used by Satanists to align themselves with secular humanism. Some pagan groups use north/south alignments as a sort of ranking system between innitiate, novice, seeker, and priest.
The original symbol has its roots traced back to the earky days of jewish quabbala (or how ever they are spelling it this week).
As for excising religious symbols from all public life. This is patently ridiculous. First amendment and all that. The argument could be made that a private school can set its dress code to outlaw such things under freedom of association. Public schools would have a much harder case to prove the same point.
The Nazi swastika is a reversed version of the Indian swastika However it can be hard to tell them apart so I would not wear such a symbol to a JDL meeting.
The school is wrong and should allow the medallion. On the other hand, the student is wrong-headed if she believes in such nonsense.
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