No Sooner Said than Proven!

Why is an Indiana Judge interfering with a Divorce of two Wiccan Parents, by creating a Decree in the divorce papaers that forbids the parents from exposing their child to Non-Mainstream Religions. Neither parent asked for it adn are in fact, extremely angry about it.

What is his agenda? Why did he do it?

No one at this point is sure, but isn't it interesting.

Check out the threads over at Witchvox.com, and be horrified and not too terribly surprised.
Actual article link: http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=13023

Also the article from yesterday, Christian evangelicals Declare Culture war itself was a bit attacked. It was supposed to run on PRWEB.com, which I paid for it's release. But 'somehow' it glitched and was never put in. It was the second time I had an incident, but they did straighten it out. It only took a day and a half. Was both cases an accident and coincidental? I hope so.

The article will be released to journalists on June 1st, and through google news and maybe Yahoo News. PRWEb.com did correct their mistake and will make good on this.

So we have it...the declared Culture War has begun to take shape. Are you ready?

Christian Evangelics have declared a Culture War! Are You prepared?

Christian Evangelics have declared a Culture War! Are you prepared?

What if you were a Witch and you were told you were not an American because you are not Christian? For some today, this is what is happening as the Christian Right continues it's declared Culture war against the seperation of Church and State. The Witch Wars Defense Manual offers advice on how to stand up to their psychological attacks and to stand up for your rights, no matter what your faith.

While many Americans are becoming worried and fearful of the recent Christian Evangelical Movements actions to consolidate political and judicial authority over the United States, some have more to fear than others. Among the Christian Conservative stated goals is to 'wipe out Paganism in America.' This goal seeks to deny legal and Constitutional recognition of all non-biblical faiths as non-religions and corrupt. This has direct consequences to a growing faith of Wicca, which followers are know as Wiccans and are often use the word Witch to describe themselves. But Wiccans are not being silent and author Ed Hubbard has been speaking out, and has published the book 'Witch Wars Defense Manual.' The book explains the underpinnings to the current Christian march to power, and how bad it is going to get before it is all over.

According to Hubbard, "The Christian Evangelical movement is a very powerful group, who are engaging in a psychological war against the American and Global population, and seek to deny true religious freedom in favor of a community based exclusively on Judeo-Christian values as interpreted by their leaders. If we are to preserve our Freedom of Religion, we must acknowledge the Culture War they have declared and understand their strategies, arguments, and tactics in order to protect ourselves." In his book 'Witch Wars', he reveals ways Pagans fight among themselves, and then explains how Christians attack Pagans and Wiccans. He lays out timelines that show how and where spiritual battles occur and a how the public can anticipate where the next conflict that Christian Evangelics plan in their continued foray in taking back America. This book is not for the timid, it is a manual that deals with religious conflict on a psychic and spiritual level of the subliminal mind. Examples show how religious leaders use psychological warfare to battle for the heart and soul of our United States, and offers hope to preserve the freedoms we all love and cherish. In Witch Wars Defense Manual you are given the tools to stand up and even disarm those who would use religion as a weapon against you.

Ed Hubbard, A Wiccan Priest of the Correllian Nativist Church, has personal experience with the Christian Evangelical movement protesting his beliefs, the most famous of which is bringing the Witch School Campus in Hoopeston, IL in June 2003. The protests created an international news story and has been subject to many articles, interviews, and even into studies of religious conflict resolution. In his continued fight for religious freedom, Ed Hubbard continues to live in Hoopeston, where Christians and Pagans coexist in peace today. You can buy copies of the Witch Wars Defense Manual at WitchWars.com

Theocracy Article at USAFA

Here is a Article which denotes what the Christian evangelicals do when in power. The Article is Fear of a Christian theocracy isn't just liberal hysteria By Jonathan Chait http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/11727303.htm

The article is what can happen, but eventually makes the mistake of saying that the Christian Evangelical movement does not have a lot of influence, and liberals over react, but the intent by Christians becomes obvious.

Coming to Grips with the Culture War!

Over the last year, the conflict has heated up and I truly accept that we are now in the midst of a Culture War. At the core of a Cultural War is the conflict over the central paradigm of thought that controls power. A cultural war calling into question in which decisions on how to control power will be allowed. The agreement by which we will be governed is the very battleground in which we fight a Culutre War.

The Culture War has been coined and declared first by the Evangelical Right, and now more mainstream sources including Businessweek. So I accept that this is the term for the high level supersymbolic third wave conflict of the new emerging civilization. We are at war inside our culture, our way of living, of believing, of earning wealth, of sharing resources, even the goals of what we want. We are being asked by the Evangelic Christian Movement to put god and Jesus back as the central paradigm, and make sure that all our beliefs agree on this. They beleive that enough followers can control the democracy and the longer they can hold it, the moer they move the country towards their goals. Chrisitan leadership has declared the Culture War is fully engaged, and we are to be some of it's tragic victims.

So it's funny for me, because I don't believe in being in a victim, I am working towards developing a strategy that makes sure Wicca is legally protected, and allow our numbers to grow. In exchange, they cry from the Pagan community is that we are commercializing Wicca. They want to be victims, underdogs, and demand their rights.
What they can't seem to understand is that they really don't have rights, rights are earned by using them, fighting for them and then protecting them.

The Evangelic Movement is the FASTEST GROWING RELIGION IN THE USA, not Wicca. Islam is outstripping Wicca as well, and secular numbers have increased faster than Wiccans. Imigration grows Hnduism, Buddism as well. Only the Catholics and Protestant Mainline traditions are losing numbers. Wicca growth is fairly modest....after all do we have 1800 Covens or groups forming this year. Nah..but we are seeing that many Evangelical Churches forming, several hundred new Mosque groupings, even Bahai and Hindu's are talking new centers. Wicca is not even close to any of that.

So I am grips with the fact a Culture War is open, the offensive has begun, and I don't know how we are going to survive it as a community. I can only hope.

New Understandings!

Over the weekend, I came in direct contact with the Evangelical movement in a way I never thought possible. The Witch Wars Defense manual awakened a lot of feelings within me, a sort of cleansing clearing of old thoughts and making way for new realities. Then I got to see a draft copy of the Devil Came to Hoopeston, and while it is not distributable (I have nothing to do with it at all, it's a doctoral students project), was very important. I saw myself reflected within it as Ed the Pagan. I saw why I was seen as such a threat to the community of Hoopeston. It was an awakening of a level of understanding.

The same day I received a copy of Business Week, and it's cover story is Evangelical America, Big Business. Explosive Politics. It discusses amazing megachurches and planting 1800 new churches in the next year. Those megachurches and small planted churches, are being tailored closer and closer to a marketing ideal. Mass-customization of the Central Christian Message. Blam....I get hit again. Another understanding another lesson.

The Christians are vying to make their religion equal being an American. If you are not Christian you can't be a real American. The Evangelical movement is taking the whole concept of America Democracy and claiming it as their very own system. It is their spiritual separation system, based on religion instead of sex, color, and sexual persuasion. They believe they can defend this and make this restored to the central community. Not only do they think they can, the have the plans and structures to do so. Can any of us talk about planting 1800 covens or circles or study groups? Can any of us talk even about 100? I think we will add another 20 ourselves, that's it.

Restoration of Evangelical America, where politics and faith are not separate, but strangely in tune, because everyone else is as Christian as you are. They are fighting to become the central influence in society and that means they need to fight as hard as they can for at least one more generation. Another twelve years, and I think they can have us all. I think they re buying key influencer systems that will feed this material to an ever increasing number of Evangelical Christians.

People are making claims that I am commercializing Wicca, spreading it too far, and making it too public. Okay, so would you want to be a Pagan in any of the new 1800 church planting zones with no support. I am doing my best, and I am barely reaching any of our people really. I feel like I have barely touched the ability and depth of our community.

But a Culture War and possibly deeper has begun, and we are targets regardless of how we feel. Look to our Constitution for the primary answer....it's our only choice.

The Hammer

People ask me about my personal inner experiences with the Divine. At a young age I was trained to be in love with Christ and Christ's true family, and I felt it all. I know what it is to be part of a thriving and growing congregation.

What does it mean when you really need it?

My Family Life was coming apart at 13. I was in High School, and my little cell of domestic torture and tranquility, was at least stable. By the time I was 14, my life would be plunged literally into hell. It was a breath taking experience, and it was Pastor Bakke that pushed me in.

I graduated Eighth Grade, and heading to High School. My summer expanded with summer camp and working in evangelical camp in Rockford with Brian Bakke and his Cousin. Then a fire at my house, then an appendectomy. High School came and I entered Catholic High School.

My entire understanding of Christ exploded, and I could not understand how different Christianity could be and is. My Grandparents were proud of me.....Then Grandpa died, and mom and dad broke up. Mom moved in with a Lesbian, and I was eventually moved to a new house and a new school.

I asked Pastor Bakke to help, and in the end he did something incredible. He said I should find a church in my new neighborhood and that he couldn't help me anymore. My best friend Brian said he was busy and that he didn't have time for the Rock Club and that it was time to close it down. So it was then that cold afternoon on sunday that they dropped me off, hammering my emotions, literally exiled from all I ever knew, with years of rock samples and my bible.

So here I was on the brink of living hell, and my pastor pushed me in. My whole life for the church, for him, all to be cast aside because my mom moved in with a Lesbian and my pastor could not handle it. The man who would eventually save whole cities in Christ's name cast me out of his sight. And I did nothing wrong.

So now I was rejected by the Baptists, and the Catholics too, and my parents broken, granpa dead and grandma dieing. The hammer struck, and the world shattered.

Next: Enter Stage Left: Satan

Can eBay Help Build a Pagan College?

Can eBay Help Build a Pagan College?

Wiccans of the Correllian Nativist Church are forming a Theological College to open this fall. In order to help raise funds they are turning to eBay as their place to sell their ideas, in electronic form.

(PRWEB) May 19, 2005 -- Wicca and Paganism is growing so quickly in the United States that a demand for trained teachers is rising exponentially. Yes, in America, there is a growing new career by becoming a Witch. While apprenticing is still the primary way of training a young Witch, some 21st century Wiccans are updating with creating Correllian College, with it's major campus in Albany, New York.

But what does that do with eBay?
"eBay is the perfect place to reach millions of people" says Witch School Director Ed Hubbard, "and this is where everybody eventually looks for information as well as products. By using eBay to help us raise funds, we have the larger benefit of providing public information inherent in selling on eBay. Simply put we can reach more people who share our interest faster than ever before. Our listings allow us to really be part of the world economy". Witch School sells books and even a unique .pdf to college supporters through it's online eBay store.

Why a Pagan College?
"The need is acute, we need trained educators and clergy, now more than ever before." Davron Michaels, Director of the Correllian College Project, points out. "We have a growing number of people who are looking for answers, and their education is leaving them unable to cope with the world they feel should be living in. We have a highly educated membership and we are focusing on the fact most traditional education systems are becoming increasingly hostile to Pagan ideals. So the need is apparent and the demand is now, we need to have a place where we will be able to learn and build knowledge. We need our own college. We need it right now. Tommorow will definitely be to late."

So there you have it, Wicca, America's fastest growing religion is turning to the eBay, the world's fastest growing marketplace, to help build a Pagan College.

Ebay Auction Listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6532227117

Contact for Correllian College:

Davron Michaels
Correllian.org
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Ph: 518-459-7845
Address: 219 N. Whitehall Rd,
Albany New York 12209

Contact for Witch School:
Ed Hubbard
witchschool.com
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Ph: 217-283-4360
Address: 112 W. Main Street
Hoopeston, Il 60942

Why Pastor Bakke Gave me a Blue Print

In my life as a young Christian, I spent many a day in Church doing something. Pastor Bakke kept us busy, and we were a young congregation and it was fun. We were also very serious evangelists for Christ. We spent a lot of time talking to people outside our church.

Ray Bakke, when I was 8 years old, talked about the Evil of Ouija Board, and How witches were going to take over the United States. A bit fantastic but lurid details about the nature of witches, who were making news a little.

Then when I was 13 he laid out a day, right before I was baptized, how witches were moving into society, and how they were going to infiltrate society. From Kits like the Ouija board, to shows on Television that popularized it, to the idea that they would form communities in rural areas. His warnings were pure gold, a society laid out to venerate the world and it's base physical nature. These people he warned claimed to be nature worshippers but were Satanists all the same.

Yep you caught that...small w for witches, big S for Satanism. But that is how Pastor Bakke taught. But the story he laid out was beautiful and for me it echoed in my heart. Pastor Bakke looked Straight at me, it was like he was telling my future. It was like telling me that I was a Witch in disguise. That I was in fact a Witch, and yet it was such a powerful feeling that my life twisted out of control within a year. My faith was finally settled, God wanted me to be a Witch Missionary. So with Jesus in my heart, I was going to be a Missionary to Witches. So I set out to learn Witchcraft.

Bible, The Pastor, and Occult Studies became the anvil of my life.

Next up the Hammer.

Kansas seeks to redefine science, remember the goal

On Wren Nest, the Story Kansas seeks to redefine Science
http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=12950

I left the following comment:

This is the test ground of changing language. We control the words and the definitions, you control the central paradigm. This is a Meta-conflict seeking to validate religion in the eyes of science. Silly or not, it is incrementally possible for them to win this battle.

What does a Pagan Education look like. We a College forming right now in Albany for this fall, and homeschoolers everywhere, the question is not what they want us taught, but what do we want to teach ourselves.

Let's start answering that question. What do we feel needs to be taught, and begin a educational counter-offensive.

It's war people and we better realize that.

Blessings
Ed
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Let me point out that the goal. The goal of most of the movement os to bring the World Church bring the Whole Gospel to the Whole World. They lament that they do not reach the other two thirds of the people. So changing education is the primary incremental metachange you create. Look at the timing and weakening allegedly of the American Education....see where complaints are.

My thought of the day.

Blessings
Ed

What the Hell Do I know about the Christian Movement

People ask me all the time how I 'allegedly' know the Christian Movement. I grew up in it, in fact a prize pupil, and a I was the youngest member ever of Fairfield Baptist Church. I was a member of the Church until the betrayal. (That's a another story). Fairfield Baptist at the time also had a great phenomena going on. Ray Bakke first Church in Chicago was there. He would become instrumental in the Lausanne covenant.

But as he learned and created a global plan to evangelize Cities, I was his apprentice. Ray Bakke may know more about urban ministry than any other evangelical.He taught me everything I know, and even gave me the first hints of my Wiccan Future. Unwittingly, he helped form me into the man I am today. He was like my second father. He was and is simply brillant.

Today Bakke, 58, has served as senior associate for large cities with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; helped found the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE), which trains urban pastors; launched the Seminario Biblico Hispano of Chicago; and helped found Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding (EMEU).

http://cityvoices.gospelcom.net/pages/raybakke/ray_apstle.html

So when people ask me how I know about Global Evangelism, I apprenticed for my entire youth and half my teen years, with the Man who leads a global campaign that is leading the effort that will make America a Theocracy. I was his son Brian's best Sunday Friend. I learned, I memorized, and to this day it is why I know how to build the World's largest Wiccan Church, I also know why I am.

It's about Freedom. Real Freedom. It's about truth.

It's all about In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.

But that is where I trained. Check it out. Feel free to ask.

Strange world.

But here is the Lausanne Covenant. It's dramatic.

http://www.lausanne.org/Brix?pageID=12891

Blessings
Ed

Today's Thoughts

It's saturday night, and I am alone in the Witch School Hoopeston Headquarters. It's interesting as we think about the future. We are beginning the final phase to developing the Pagan College. It is a big jump and one that I am anxious to make.

In my heart, I remember what Guy Kawasaki said: 'You can be rich, you can be powerful, and you can be famous, but you won't amount to much of anything until you change the world.'

I definitely want to change the world. I want to see a Wicca emerge into the ideals of the public and influence government and society with our best wishes and thoughts. It is important, as we have a philosphy which preserves and does not destroy others.

The idea of a Pagan College is worth fighting for.

Blessings,
Ed

Wiccan Defense Manual Outlines Christian Campaign to Eliminate

Wiccan Defense Manual Outlines Christian Campaign to Eliminate
Minority Religions



Who would have believed that American Christians at the beginning of
the 21st Century would be claiming to be relentlessly persecuted and
insisting the only remedy is to dismantle the separation of Church and
State? After being voted into office by a majority of Americans,
Christian Conservatives are acting as if they have a mandate to
nominate and confirm that the judiciary of the United States should
draw its members only from self-proclaimed People of Faith, who
reassert Christ as the true Lord of America.


One voice in stark contrast to this mandate is that of the Rev Ed
Hubbard. He points out in the book 'Witch Wars Defense Manual,' that
"when Christians allow men of pure faith to become judges of state
law, and believe themselves to be enforcing God's Law, people are
tortured, maimed, imprisoned, enslaved and killed as Witches, Pagans
and Heathens. It is a sobering thought to remember." As a Wiccan
Priest and a Practicing Witch, he feels that he has to protect the
freedom he has had, as well as that of his community, as Christian
Conservatives attempt to roll back progress made by minority
religions.


As Christian leaders are moving to control more and more of our
everyday life, a religious movement known as Wicca is growing at a
phenomenal rate. Wiccans are also known as Witches and are
practitioners of a natural faith that includes Witchcraft. By some
accounts Wiccans may represent 500,000 to 600,000 Americans and more
are joining daily. The difficulty for Wiccans is that Christian
ministers insist that Wiccans, members of a legally recognized
religion, would be denied all public access. They are insisting that
Wicca be eliminated and even criminalized. With such harsh attitudes
the whole concept of freedom of religion is being questioned and
tested to see if truth will hold up as our founding fathers intended.
The threat to our core freedoms is now. We must understand that the
Christian Conservatives have a very different point of view, a belief
in God and Christ, and the belief that they were appointed to Serve
God and America. You need only look at recent headlines to see this is
becoming increasingly true.


This point is illustrated by the recent speech by California Supreme
Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown as reported in the Stamford
Advocate, where she insisted that people of faith were embroiled in a
"war" against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from
its religious roots. In her speech, she said, "There seems to have
been no time since the Civil War that this country was so bitterly
divided. It's not a shooting war, but it is a war; Brown is also a
Federal Appellate Court Judge Nominee.



Another purveyor of faith is Matthew Staver, a religious-right lawyer
who recently argued a church-state case in front of the Supreme Court,
who stated that his main purpose is to remove all separation of church
and argues, "The term `separation of church and state' is an easy
hook. People hear it, they think of the First Amendment. It's like the
line `Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,' and you think of
Muhammad Ali. But there's no separation phrase in the First Amendment
... Interpreting it that way is laughable." When you combine Brown and
Staver's attitudes toward interpreting law and religion, disaster
results.


One such disaster could be similar to the one the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals created by basically confirming that you can discriminate
against minority religions. They did this by reversing the lower court
decision, offering that discrimination in the selection of people to
deliver prayers at government meetings is permissible.The case in
question is over Chesterfield County, which has a policy that allows
its religious community to sign up for a list of those who can be
asked to deliver opening prayers at board of supervisors meetings, and
that only religious leaders who practice within the Judeo-Christian
tradition are allowed to pray. The policy thus permits Christians,
Jews and Muslims to offer the invocations - but excludes those from
other religions. It was already used to exclude the Wiccan Cynthia
Simpson from offering such prayer, which led to this lawsuit. If the
policy is left in place, it would exclude Wiccans, Hindus, Buddhists,
Native Americans and a number of other religious groups from being
able to participate. If the Supreme Court eventually hears the case
and reaffirms the Fourth Circuit's decision, then this means other
governmental bodies could create similar policies nationwide. Minority
religions have something to fear from the current political
environment, Wiccans more than most. Wiccans worry to what degree will
Christians go to suppress the Wiccan Faith which, at its core,
believes in our Founding Fathers vision and their work represented in
the Constitution. The Christian Conservative movement has no plan or
place for any faith other than their own. Just ask them.


In the "Witch Wars Defense Manual," Hubbard lays out the ideas,
tactics, and weapons of Religious Psychological Warfare in
understandable language. Subjects range from Wiccan Infighting to How
and Why Christians Suppress Minority Faiths, especially Wicca, and
describes in detail the Jesus Taboo that is gripping this country.
Furthermore,  the Defense Manual lays out the Christian Agenda through
the year 2012, and the dark future it portends for the world. It is
today's most provocative book and one of tomorrow's biggest
controversies.


Witch Wars Defense Manual By Ed Hubbard is on Sale at

www.WitchSchool.com/supplies/witchwars.asp



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Contact Information for Rev. Ed Hubbard:

CEO Witch School

First Director of Correllian Nativist Church, Inc.

112 W. Main Street, Hoopeston, IL 60942

Phone: 217-283-4360

First Post.....Witch Wars

Hi Everyone,

This is the first post of Witch Wars, the Blog site of Ed the Pagan and others who are working towards keeping Pagans free and able to compete in the psychological conflicts that fill our life.
Especially dealing with Witch wars and Christian attacks of the Pagan community.

Began on Friday the 13th, of course, while we face a time of unlimited opportunity and deep fights. Let us face them together.

Blessings
Ed