{"id":1307,"date":"2010-02-08T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2010-02-08T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:07:00","slug":"air-force-academy-turns-back-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Academy "Turns Back Time""},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on January 27th, I mentioned that the US Air Force Academy, located near Colorado Springs, had created a ritual space for followers of Pagan religions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jason Pitzl-Waters has been keeping up on various reactions,<\/a> including some form of magic performed by (presumably) evangelical Christians, who think that putting two large crossed bits of lumber on the circle will somehow negate it. (My first thought: firewood!)<\/p>\n

At least one writer to the Colorado Springs Gazette<\/i> accuses the Air Force of romanticizing druids who performed human sacrifice.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is shocking to contemplate a revival of druidic sacrifice. Can you imagine the Air Force procurement process for victims? Would there be a no-bid process or would there be competitive bidding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back on January 27th, I mentioned that the US Air Force Academy, located near Colorado Springs, had created a ritual space for followers of Pagan religions. Jason Pitzl-Waters has been keeping up on various reactions, including some form of magic performed by (presumably) evangelical Christians, who think that putting two large crossed bits of lumber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,24],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-l5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1295,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1295","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":0},"title":"Nature Religion at the Air Force Academy","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Air Force Academy chapel will add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions during a dedication ceremony scheduled to be held at the circle March 10.Gus diZerega notes it too.Considering some of the previous church-and-state issues at the academy, this is major news.Hmm. I might be able to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1319,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1319","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":1},"title":"Wicca as the (Untrustworthy) Other, Again","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"For environmental news of the West, I have subscribed since the 1980s to High Country News, a biweekly magazine. For the first time since a rancher named Tom Bell started the magazine in Lander, Wyoming in 1970, HCN has jumped on the bandwagon of anti-Wiccan snark. In a blog post\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11135,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11135","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":2},"title":"“Witchy” Cave Is New Obstacle to Mine Expansion","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"When I went to graduate school, I wanted to write a paper on how so many interesting natural sites have \"Devil\" or \"Devil's\" in their name. Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming might be the best-known in the United States.((The federal government has been confused by the possessive apostrophe since\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coloradosun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/IMG_6038.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coloradosun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/IMG_6038.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coloradosun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/IMG_6038.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coloradosun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/IMG_6038.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coloradosun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/IMG_6038.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coloradosun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/IMG_6038.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4551,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4551","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":3},"title":"Stone Circles: Not Just for Neolithic People","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Andy Burnham, who runs the Megalithic Portal Web site and society in Surrey, England, has recorded 253 monolithic circles built in recent decades. And 'there must be many more in private gardens that we don\u2019t know about,' he wrote in an e-mail.\" The New York Times profiles a Vermont man\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Druids\"","block_context":{"text":"Druids","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=druids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":347,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=347","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":4},"title":"Pueblo and Colorado Springs Compare\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Pueblo and Colorado Springs Compare the \"You might be from Pueblo if\" quiz with the Colorado Springs Independent's recent feature, \"You are sooooo Colorado Springs.\" (Link may change.) I always put it this way: if you go to a party in Pueblo, you might be asked, \"Where did you go\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7950,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7950","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":5},"title":"Heathens in the Grange","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Asatru Folk Assembly recently concluded a successful crowdfunding campaign to buy an old Grange hall in the Gold Rush country of California.((Yes, I contributed and got a T-shirt in one my favorite colors. Like Ben Franklin, I give to variety of different groups.)) AFA founder Stephen McNallen chose this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"agriculture\"","block_context":{"text":"agriculture","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=agriculture"},"img":{"alt_text":"newgrange","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/newgrange.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}