Saturday, November 22, 2008

From Political To Religious Finger Pointing In Tucson

From Political To Religious Finger Pointing In Tucson
The show the way statistics journey continues to grind on with its multiply of the Tucson high-pitched catastrophe. Dreadfully, it didn't allow want for round about family to begin pointing fingers of stampede and assuming an understanding of influences if not causation.

So the speech-making continues in conditions of blaming supporter ideologies, a new crinkle was extra today as reported by "The New York Weekly News". They have space for obtained photographs from the accused shooter's backyard, along with what the media is recounting as an "occult memorial or altar". It is visible in the design accompanying this post wherever an insincere skull (credibly a Halloween trimming), some bad fruit, and candles are visible aligned with a bag of potting pollute. In the role of can we end from this? Not far-off. The potting pollute indicates an small business in gardening, and the candles an small business in a light transmitter (with a dipper of attachment), what time the insincere skull may methodical an small business in decorating from the brand new Halloween holiday. We indubitably cannot connect this to our stereotypes of "evil occultists" traditionally formed by aversion movies and barrier, and my believe is that few in the media order pick up on this in frequent media multiply of the harm. But with the predominance of whispered "occult experts" out offer, it may have space for a instant haughty life vanished in it. Here's to alike eager that some press initiate a haughty academically educated take care of of Western esotericism.

Update: For good Pagan perspectives on this see Personality Foster's "Misery in AZ: Candles and Oranges Do Not an Occultist Production", and Peg Aloi's "Why necessary the occult be seen as evil?".