Jennifer's Alternative Religions Blog May 2005 Archive

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Religious Rights, Templar Stone, OTO Lawsuit
The results are in on the religion in prison case before the Supreme Court. The ruling reinforces the rights of prisoners to practice their chosen faith in prisons, no ... Read More

Tuesday May 31, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Bedeviled in New Jersey?
A New Jersey politician is taking issue with (you gessed it) the logo of the State's enourmously popular hockey team, the Jersey Devils. He's introducing a resolution to rename ... Read More

Sunday May 29, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Marie Laveau, Witchcraft Claims behind Searches
Nola.com has a surprisingly positive profile of America's best known magician, Marie Laveau. "Popess of Voodoo," and the thousands of faithful who make pilgrimages to her grave every year. ... Read More

Friday May 27, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Parent's Religion Not Acceptable?
With all the flapping about "activist judges," I sometimes forget there really is such a thing. Take, for example, the Indiana judge who ordered a divorcing couple not to ... Read More

Friday May 27, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Botanica, Hosanna Satanism
The Houston Chronicle has a positive profile of Santeria, describing a day in the life of a Botanica. Articlers like these often attempt to identify these shops as sellers ... Read More

Wednesday May 25, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Church Sex Abuse, Evangelicals, Archons
After years of looking for ritual child abuse in day cares, it looks like the religious right forgot to investigate one area- their own back yard. Eight members of ... Read More

Monday May 23, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Skin Sellers, Pseudo-Gnostic in Trouble again, A Mysterious Disappearance
This is beyond bizarre- two men in Tanzania have been arrested and charged with killing a nine year old boy in order to sell his skin to a local sorceror ... Read More

Wednesday May 18, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Paranormal Investigators, Jain Society, Police Occult Expert Educates
A group of paranormal invetigators offer some alternative notions about possession and excorcism. Detroit's Jain Society marks its thirtieth anniversary. (More on Jainism)The Belleville, New Jersey Police Department ... Read More

Monday May 16, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Freeing the Kabbalah, Wicca in Berlin, Psychic Detective
Most people, when they heart the word "kabbalah," automatically associate it with the trendy Los Angeles Kabbalah Center...and that's not acceptable to tradiotional kabbalists. Rabbi Naftali Citron is on ... Read More

Thursday May 12, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Jesus Christ having trouble getting a driver's license?

Wednesday May 11, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Da Vinci Code Banned, Controversial Animal Sacrifices, Vatican Convictions
The country of Jordan has banned the Da Vinci Code, and confiscated copies of the book. The reason? It "slandered" Christianity.Rituals involving animal sacrifices on the beach are ... Read More

Tuesday May 10, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Images from the Pagan Festival are up. Click the images above to see the Galleries. Check out the Pagan Alliance website for more. (Or, if you like, you ... Read More

Monday May 9, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Child Accused of Witchcraft Tortuired, Damien Echols Speaks Out, White Lotus Day
An eight year old London girl accused of witchcraft was tortured nearly killed- by her own family. Another attack against accused witches was carried out Thursday in Southern ... Read More

Monday May 9, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Pope investigated Templars, Rastafarian loses Locks,
The "Hertford Templar" story just got a little more interesting, with hints that before becoming Pope, Cardinal Raztinger was researching Templar and Illuminati history. The former Cardinal is ... Read More

Friday May 6, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Jesus Ultrasound?
A woman claims her ultrasouns reveals the face of Jesus (a feat considering there weren't any photographers around in the first century). I personally think it looks like Wayne ... Read More

Thursday May 5, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

"Star Wars Surprise"
Today's amusement is a classic: Surprise! Yoda is really...Satan! Bored preacher discovers that if you flip a Mendes pentacle over, it kinda sorta looks like Yoda with a ... Read More

Thursday May 5, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

New Symbols
A decent profile of Wicca. Number one way for Michael Jackson's prosecutors to blow it: hire the babbling psychologist from the McMartin preschool case.

Thursday May 5, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Religious discrimination, The Lower Number of the Beast, 'Gnostic' leader under the Scrutiny, Rosslyn Chapel and the Grail
A muslim believer in Chicago is suing his employer for religious discrimination after being fired. (The EEOC statistics are worth reading and very telling.) Looks like the revision ... Read More

Wednesday May 4, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Delnor Update, Mystery Lights, Da Vinci's Hidden Grail
More on the "Delnor witchcraft" suit. Another guess about the cause of mysterious mountain lights. Did Leonardo Da Vinci hide a Grail reference in the Last Supper? ... Read More

Tuesday May 3, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)

Sikh charged for carrying a Kirpan, Worried about the Religous Right, Beltane Roundup
A Danish Sikh is fighting a weapons charge after he was arrested for carrying his Kirpan at a US embassy in Denmark. Ripudaman Singh is a Khalsa Sikh ... Read More

Monday May 2, 2005 | permalink | comments (0)