Attention all Druids! There will be a bingo game after the Wednesday night Oak Worship Service.
The Religion Page of the Huffington Post should relocated to the Entertainment Page or, more accurately, the Comedy Page. Their bizzaro efforts to frequently use religion in all its forms to promote a plethora of leftwing agendas often yields highly comedic results. Remember Green Jesus? And now their Associate Religion Editor, Antonia Blumberg, has employed fictional liberal paganism to promote a leftwing fantasy world.
This time we are presented with the improbably named Starhawk which immediately conjures up the name "Moonbat." She is the author of "City of Refuge" about liberal pagan San Francisco of the year 2048 following a war with the unenlightened yahoos of the "totalitarian" South. And now a safe space to allow Ms Blumberg to make her liberal pagan pitch in what passes for religion at the Huffington Post:
The average writing day for pagan author Starhawk seems apt for someone whose spirituality is embedded in the magical qualities of nature. The 64-year-old wakes up in her northern California home and goes outside to sit and meditate. When she's ready, she settles down to write at a spot out in the woods, listening to the sounds of nature as she lets the words flow freely onto the page.
Are you sure copious quantities of "medicinal" marijuana don't play a part in this writing process?
Starhawk, who cofounded the Reclaiming tradition of modern paganism in 1980, has been writing for the pagan community since she published her first book, The Spiral Dance, in 1979. The modern pagan community is comprised of people who identify as witches, pagans, neopagans and more. With The Spiral Dance, Starhawk became a leading voice in the neopagan movement, which is marked by the burgeoning of earth-based, goddess spirituality in the 20th century.
So what happened to the Goat Dance? No pagan ceremony is complete without it.
The writer now has a new book, a follow up to her 1994 epic The Fifth Sacred Thing, coming out March 1.
Twenty-two years in the making! Do tell us all about it.
The book, City of Refuge, is set in a utopian and pagan-influenced San Francisco in the year 2048 just after a devastating war with the totalitarian South. As the city struggles to regain stability, it quickly becomes apparent that its troubles are far from over.
GASP! You mean there are still evil Republicans left?
It took nearly twenty years for Starhawk to revisit the story of The Fifth Sacred Thing, though she's written many pagan-themed nonfiction books in the interim. She started writing City of Refuge in early 2012, inspired in part by her involvement with Occupy Oakland.
Yeah, Occupy Oakland which was so chock full of Moonbattery that the violence perpetrated by the demonstrators was even noted by Mother Jones.
To her, a novel begins with a question, she told The Huffington Post. The question she had at the time, given the context of the Occupy movement, was, "How do we create a new world when people are so deeply damaged by the old?"
Bolshevism is the obvious answer but to appeal to today's infantile left, you have to deliver it with a strong dose of pagan fantasy.
The novel is full of themes influenced by Starhawk's earth-based spirituality that begin to explore what that "new world" might look like -- from the city's marked reverence for nature to the characters' ability to gather information from crystals much like people today wield their smartphones.
A "new world" which sounds exactly like a leftwing fantasy safe space to keep out reality.
What the utopian North has that the South lacks in the novel are things that might seem simple at first glance: gardens that grow real food, effective natural healing techniques, and respect for the earth that translates into respect for every other person and living thing. These elements make the North and its inhabitants resilient and equipped to envision a healthy future for the generations to come.
And there we have the theme. The Bernie Socialist North versus the Evil Conservative South. Yawn! How original...NOT!
Okay, in order to counter the boring utterly predictable leftwing fantasies of Starhawk/Moonbat, I now present the fun paganism of P.A.G.A.N..
