Terrence Fugate wrote:

>  From Junkyard Planet:
>  "There was an angry outcry. Nobody actually shouted "To the stake
> with the blasphemer!" but
>  that was the general idea. Judge Ledue was rapping loudly for order."

Not really consistent with a rationalist atheist culture.

>  As to "As an atheist fertility rite with Aleister Crowley
> underpinnings."
>  Hunh? I've studied Mr. Crowly and I'm really lost with the idea
> anything in any of HBPs works are remotely related to anything Mr.
> Crowly espoused.

Sort of joking on my part about how a holdover religious rite could take
on new trappings.

>  In another group we could have hundreds of threads on the remnants of
> pagan [Latin for peasant]/heathen beliefs that are 'buried' under
> Jewish/Christian/Islamic belief systems....

Let's not. Even the disputes on Lidless Eye don't go there.