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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

More Bad Religious Reporting

Tuesday February 28, 2006

Did you know that followers of Asatru are violent racists who believe in the use of terrorism to promote the "white race?" Well, neither did I. Of course, most Asatru are unaware of this "fact" causally repeated in A small New York paper. (It's not true.) They really can't take all the blame, however, given this appalling bit of untruth appears word for word from a New York Times article. While we're inventing facts about religions: all Lutherans are green.

The grandson of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie will be speaking in Florida on his family ties. Selassie is viewed as the Messiah by members of the Rasta faith, and it is believed by many that he and his progeny are descended from the biblical Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Terrible: a 110 year old African woman suspected of being a witch is beaten into a coma. Her horrible offense? Simply looking like a witch. (whatever that looks like.)

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