{"id":368,"date":"2005-01-28T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2005-01-28T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:03:00","slug":"368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Banning the Runes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin Runesinger at “Voice of the Valkyrie” worries that the European Union might ban runic symbols<\/a> as symbols of “hate.” I fear that it might well happen. Being nonsensical never stopped a bureaucrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banning the Runes? Robin Runesinger at “Voice of the Valkyrie” worries that the European Union might ban runic symbols as symbols of “hate.” I fear that it might well happen. Being nonsensical never stopped a bureaucrat.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-368","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2948,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2948","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":0},"title":"On the Norwegian ‘Esoterrorist’","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"February 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Valentine's Day card that I bought for M. would be illegal to Saudi Arabia's Wahabi Muslims.It would be an acknowledgment that women are more than a necessary evil, household appliances in veils. Maybe it's an incitement to polytheism too. Who knows?In fact \"red items\" are a problem.So if I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Islam\"","block_context":{"text":"Islam","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=islam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4522,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4522","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":2},"title":"Cultic Objects from the Cult of Fire","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I always chuckle at how when archaeologists cannot immediately ascertain the purpose of an ancient object, they describe it as \"cultic,\" in this case as a phallic symbol. This tendency was parodied in the steampunk-ish graphic novel Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay, who also created City, Cathedral, Ship,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":667,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=667","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":3},"title":"Fight for Wiccan VA tombstone\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Fight for Wiccan VA tombstone continuesThe widow of of Sgt. Patrick Stewart, killed in Afghanistan, is getting some political support in her fight for a military Wiccan tombstone.The Veterans Affairs' National Cemetery Administration allows only approved emblems of religious beliefs on government headstones. Over the years, it has approved more\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10687,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10687","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":4},"title":"Scottish Academic: Runes are Hate Symbols, also Anti-Celtic","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A free download from the journal Temenos: \"Pagans, Nazis, Gaels, and the Algiz Rune: Addressing Questions of Historical Inaccuracy, Cultural Appropriation, and the Arguable Use of Hate Symbols at the Festivals of Edinburgh\u2019s Beltane Fire Society\" The abstract: Although Beltaners \u2013 members of Edinburgh\u2019s Beltane Fire Society (BFS) \u2013 can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Beltane\"","block_context":{"text":"Beltane","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=beltane"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/runes.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4697,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4697","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":5},"title":"D&D in Ptolemaic Egypt","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"What were they doing with 20-sided dice? 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