Post by JP Van Gordon van42hotmai on Dec 24, 2004 8:52:33 GMT -5
As much as I agree with some people concerning the issue with the changing of the official L.A. County Seal, I think many of these commentators are missing what I see as a bigger issue.
As a non-orthodox Pagan, I see the elimination of the Goddess Pomona as a sign of an even more insidious pogrom aimed at destroying what is left of the non-Christian symbology of our country and the world at large.
In the official description of the seal, she is defined as: "The Goddess Pomona – the goddess of gardens and fruit trees – is holding in her arms a sheaf of grain, an orange, a lemon, an avocado and a few grapes to represent Los Angeles County’s agriculture."
On a recent program by the renown Huell Howser, a visit to the City of Pomona revealed a statue and shrine to the Goddess erected in that city's Town Hall Museum.
Even in that limited exposure I could see that there was a considerable history and legend surrounding that unheralded figure.
As much as I occasionally applaud the ACLU and their representatives, in their zeal they sometimes miss the mark.
In the issue regarding the cross, for example, the official description says, "The cross represents the influence of the church and the missions of California."
The Missions of California, and particularly the Old Missions in the County area are a reminder of the founders of the State.
To rewrite that history in a sad revisionistic attempt to "correct" our symbology is a slap in the face to the founders of our City, our County and our State... indeed, even to the country as a whole. Father Junipero Serra is turning over in his grave!
In their Orwellian furor Ms. Allred and other Jews and Christians associated with the ACLU are siding with the great revisionist himself, Adolf Hitler.
They should be ashamed of themselves!
In a slightly older fiasco, the new revisionists decided that having a copy of the Ten Commandments in a public law office was "out of favor" with "political correctness."
Did somebody bother to point out that those same Commandments along with the Code of Hammurabi, the regulations governing the Ancient Greek and Roman Senates, the rules of convention of the Iriquois Nation, the Code of Kosher, the Tabula Smeragdina of the Ancients and many other classic and important writ are the foundations of our present system of law?
Instead of a corrupt policy of "exclusion" they should have seen the occasion as an opportunity to "include!"
It takes no great leap of mental ability to see that a small mini-museum could have included all the salient symbols of the foundations of our present legal system.
In a like manner, our City, County, State and Federal symbology could easily "include" the most important progenitors of its past history rather than trying to destroy them!
As a Pagan I feel that I can safely speak for other Pagans when I say that we bear no ill will toward those who have for many millenia attempted to destroy us and our history.
We feel that the Sons of Abraham - Moslems, Jews and Christians - are like as to errant children who have not matured enough to see where their misguided paths are taking them.
The numerous wars, disease and destructive acts that they are prone to are all part of an on-going growing phase that will someday work itself out.
We do NOT proselytize. From time to time, as the need arises, we try to offer guidance... It is not always accepted in good faith.
So, in closing, I ask this question of the followers of Jehovah, Jeheshua and Jehad... What's next? Are you going to decide that the symbol of Minerva as depicted on our State seal in the guise of "Eureka" is not "correct" and erade it in the name of political correctness (new revisionism)?
Is the Pagan Goddess standing in for Lady Liberty in our Nation's port city of New York suddenly "not right?"
Are we going to see soldiers standing around applauding when they tear it down?
When the politically, financially and ecumenically motivated administration of this country "decides" that Baghdad, one of the world's oldest and most beautiful still-populated cities is "politically incorrect," and attempts to bomb it "back to the stone age," it's time to stop... and think about what we are doing!
J.P.V.G.
As a non-orthodox Pagan, I see the elimination of the Goddess Pomona as a sign of an even more insidious pogrom aimed at destroying what is left of the non-Christian symbology of our country and the world at large.
In the official description of the seal, she is defined as: "The Goddess Pomona – the goddess of gardens and fruit trees – is holding in her arms a sheaf of grain, an orange, a lemon, an avocado and a few grapes to represent Los Angeles County’s agriculture."
On a recent program by the renown Huell Howser, a visit to the City of Pomona revealed a statue and shrine to the Goddess erected in that city's Town Hall Museum.
Even in that limited exposure I could see that there was a considerable history and legend surrounding that unheralded figure.
As much as I occasionally applaud the ACLU and their representatives, in their zeal they sometimes miss the mark.
In the issue regarding the cross, for example, the official description says, "The cross represents the influence of the church and the missions of California."
The Missions of California, and particularly the Old Missions in the County area are a reminder of the founders of the State.
To rewrite that history in a sad revisionistic attempt to "correct" our symbology is a slap in the face to the founders of our City, our County and our State... indeed, even to the country as a whole. Father Junipero Serra is turning over in his grave!
In their Orwellian furor Ms. Allred and other Jews and Christians associated with the ACLU are siding with the great revisionist himself, Adolf Hitler.
They should be ashamed of themselves!
In a slightly older fiasco, the new revisionists decided that having a copy of the Ten Commandments in a public law office was "out of favor" with "political correctness."
Did somebody bother to point out that those same Commandments along with the Code of Hammurabi, the regulations governing the Ancient Greek and Roman Senates, the rules of convention of the Iriquois Nation, the Code of Kosher, the Tabula Smeragdina of the Ancients and many other classic and important writ are the foundations of our present system of law?
Instead of a corrupt policy of "exclusion" they should have seen the occasion as an opportunity to "include!"
It takes no great leap of mental ability to see that a small mini-museum could have included all the salient symbols of the foundations of our present legal system.
In a like manner, our City, County, State and Federal symbology could easily "include" the most important progenitors of its past history rather than trying to destroy them!
As a Pagan I feel that I can safely speak for other Pagans when I say that we bear no ill will toward those who have for many millenia attempted to destroy us and our history.
We feel that the Sons of Abraham - Moslems, Jews and Christians - are like as to errant children who have not matured enough to see where their misguided paths are taking them.
The numerous wars, disease and destructive acts that they are prone to are all part of an on-going growing phase that will someday work itself out.
We do NOT proselytize. From time to time, as the need arises, we try to offer guidance... It is not always accepted in good faith.
So, in closing, I ask this question of the followers of Jehovah, Jeheshua and Jehad... What's next? Are you going to decide that the symbol of Minerva as depicted on our State seal in the guise of "Eureka" is not "correct" and erade it in the name of political correctness (new revisionism)?
Is the Pagan Goddess standing in for Lady Liberty in our Nation's port city of New York suddenly "not right?"
Are we going to see soldiers standing around applauding when they tear it down?
When the politically, financially and ecumenically motivated administration of this country "decides" that Baghdad, one of the world's oldest and most beautiful still-populated cities is "politically incorrect," and attempts to bomb it "back to the stone age," it's time to stop... and think about what we are doing!
J.P.V.G.