If you are waiting for an insightful post from me today, I fear your wait continues.\u00a0 This will again be a welcome respite from the otherwise intellectually stimulating things you find in the blogosphere.<\/p>\n
By now, you have likely heard the tale of the “Satanic Cult”\/Democratic operatives in North Carolina.\u00a0 Here’s a tid bit <\/a>for those who have not:<\/p>\n Joseph Scott Craig, 25, and his wife, Joy Johnson, 30, were arrested last month after a man and a woman told authorities they were beaten, shackled to beds, kept in dog cages and starved.<\/p>\n The victims met Johnson and Craig through the Web site for Indigo Dawn Inc., a business that Johnson and Craig operated. The company is a spiritual growth service offering “past-life reconstruction” and “communication with spirit guides,\u201d according to the company’s Web site. The site talks about Johnson’s activism and describes Craig as a reverend and a “devout student of magick.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m inexplicably fascinated with the story, although not to score cheap political points on the Dems, although admittedly that part is fun too.\u00a0 What amazes me is not that these two were doing such things, but that there are people out there so pathetic as to buy into this [IVAW].\u00a0 So, I read everything on this case.\u00a0 And I just found this in the same article as before:<\/p>\n According to the warrant, Johnson and Craig described themselves as teachers of the Order of the Morning Star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0Now, some of you will recall my unfortunately brief cyber-romance with Chrissy my beloved Hippie Girl<\/a>, whose first missive to me was fantabulous:<\/p>\n I am part of a new group. Our mission is to provide love to those who were in war and to those who are going because the more love we provide the less violent they will be while at war. If you are being deployed to war, please let’s talk first. I promise I can be really sweet and understandable….\u00a0\u00a0 We do this by providing love, understanding, and a soft female touch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, this is a movement I could get behind (pun intended).\u00a0 Anyway, I went to see if the Order of the Morning Star was of a similiar bent, because I can be one hell of a spiritual dude when there are young women involved.\u00a0 (Currently I attend the Congregation for the Worship of Skye<\/a>, but don’t tell my wife<\/a>, she thinks I am just volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters.)<\/p>\n The Morning Star Order…<\/a> is the religious order (The Holy Order) of the One Earth Church of Divine Humanity. The purpose of The Holy Order is to provide a structure wherein the teachings and esoteric knowledge of Divine Humanity are discussed and taught as well as a means for spreading the message of Divine Humanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, I gotta tell you, that explains nothing.\u00a0 But please, do go on.<\/p>\n The Order\u2019s Mission is to work for the eradication of fear-based systems that obstruct peace, harmony, partnership and Oneness (unity) on Earth. To accomplish this humanity must be awakened to their divinity. The eradication of fear begins with each individual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n M’kay. Then this, which is the part that has me UTTERLY befuddled.<\/p>\n The Order\u2019s Virtues are emblematic of the Greek Spartan Knights life-giving sacrifice for the \u2018greater good\u2019 at the \u2018Hot Gates\u2019 of Thermopylae in 480 BCE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Greek Spartan Knights”?\u00a0 There was no Greece in 480 BCE, and “Knights”? And how on earth could anyone confuse the Agoge system with “peace, harmony, partnership and Oneness (unity) on Earth”?<\/p>\n Anyway, I’m thinking of starting my own wacko religion. Any help from the readers here would be appreciated. Obviously a lot of obligatory and profligate references to Dionysis<\/a>, Venus Kallipygos <\/a>and Priapus<\/a> are required, but I get lost after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"