Local Wiccan uninvited to give city council invocation due to ‘community fears’ (poll) | WHNT.com

Not my God, once again:

Local Wiccan uninvited to give city council invocation due to ‘community fears’ (poll) | WHNT.com: “I gave the invocation earlier this year, at the time they did not ask me what my faith affiliation was, but when they did this time and I told them ‘Wiccan,’ I was told I was no longer invited to give it,” Blake told WHNT News 19 from his home Thursday night.

Another "If it ain't Christian, it ain't right" from the South, this time Alabama. No matter Mr. Blake had led meetings before with invocations, no matter the constitution, no matter hypocrisy and irony, Mr. Blake has been uninvited due to "community concerns." ACLU, are you going to take this on? They so far have been unresponsive to the case in Bebee, Arkansas of a Pagan whose permits were abruptly yanked when the city found out his store and church were not Christian, but Pagan.

Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts | The Times of Israel

Religious fanatics destroy what they fear:

Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts | The Times of Israel: In an act of cultural genocide strikingly similar to the Taliban’s demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001, the ISIL fighters appear –in pictures recently uploaded by a group working to protect Syria’s rich historical heritage — to smash a 3,000-year-old Neo-Assyrian statue illegally removed from a nearby archaeological site. Another image shows a man placing his foot — an act of disrespect in Arab culture — on the face of the Assyrian statue before its destruction.

Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts | The Times of Israel

Religious fanatics destroy what they fear:

Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts | The Times of Israel: In an act of cultural genocide strikingly similar to the Taliban’s demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001, the ISIL fighters appear –in pictures recently uploaded by a group working to protect Syria’s rich historical heritage — to smash a 3,000-year-old Neo-Assyrian statue illegally removed from a nearby archaeological site. Another image shows a man placing his foot — an act of disrespect in Arab culture — on the face of the Assyrian statue before its destruction.

Update on Beebe: “That man’s God is not my God.” | The Wild Hunt

From the excellent blog The Wild Hunt, this update on Bertram Dahl's situation in Beebe. Dahl is a high priest in his pagan church and applied for zoning permits to have a church and store on his property. As the article points out, surrounding properties have churches. Thing is, they're all Christian churches. Soon as the mayor and local bureaucrats realized Dahl is a pagan, they are willfully breaking laws in their attempts to stop Dahl from opening his church and his store. Furthermore, he is being harassed by one of the churches across the street from him. I'm surprised the ACLU hasn't supported Dahl on this yet.

Update on Beebe: “That man’s God is not my God.” | The Wild Hunt: More details emerge in the conflict between Mayor Mike Robertson of Beebe, Arkansas and a Pagan church. High Priest Bertram Dahl said the city of Beebe welcomed him, his church, and store to relocate to the town with open arms – until they found out the church wasn’t a Christian church. Now the mayor claims Dahl’s Seekers Temple and metaphysical store cannot open due to zoning issues. In our interview with the Dahls they say it has nothing to do with zoning and everything to do with religious discrimination.

Church Cross Latest Attempt at Stealth Cellphone Towers - DailyFinance

Be careful what you're praying there to kiddo:

Church Cross Latest Attempt at Stealth Cellphone Towers - DailyFinance: By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ

DES MOINES, Iowa -- One might be hidden in a cross on a church lawn. Others are disguised as a cactus in the desert, a silo in farm country or a palm tree reaching into a sunny sky.

Whatever the deception, the goal is the same: concealing the tall, slender cellphone towers that most Americans need but few want to see erected in their neighborhoods.