America was Founded on Pagan Ideals

Right-wingers claim that our nation was established in 1776 upon Christian ideals. They're wrong. Democracy and republicanism are historically Pagan ideals, directly opposed to churchly authoritarianism.

Most of America's traditional patriotic symbols are deeply Pagan ­ deliberately chosen by the Founders to show that the roots of the Revolutionary values of equality, cooperation, and liberty lay, not in Jerusalem, but in pre-Christian Athens and Rome. Follow the links below, and you'll learn why America's proudest symbols are temples, pentagrams, and goddesses, and how you can use them in spellcraft. Then, read an explanation and two published commentaries on how we, as American Pagans, strive to live by and act upon those symbols and ideals -- rather than hypocritically idolize them in words while contradicting them in deeds, as too many self-proclaimed "patriots" do.

Does this look like a church to you?

Do these look like crosses?

Does she look like Jesus?

From Patriotism to Matriotism: Why Pagans are Politically Active

Why I Refuse to Recite the Pledge, by *Diuvei

A Day of Infamy, by Lady Passion & *Diuvei

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