{"id":694,"date":"2006-07-27T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2006-07-27T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T21:50:00","slug":"more-on-the-asatru-prison-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"More on the \u00c0satr\u00f9 prison story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macha NightMare, one of the people interviewed about the Asatru-related prison stabbing and subsequent scheduled execution in Virginia, <a href=\"http:\/\/besom.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/pagans-in-prisons-and-press.html\">gives her own perspective<\/a>. There is more to the full story than what went out on the Associated Press feed.<\/p>\n<p>Other bloggers have already commented: Dave Haxton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haxton.org\/weblog\/Asatru\/whereDoIStartOnThis.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haxton.org\/weblog\/Asatru\/heathensInPrison.html\">here<\/a>, and Jason Pitzl-Waters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhunt.org\/2006\/07\/prisons-and-pagans.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick McCollum&#8217;s comments were cut from some versions of the story, I think:<\/p>\n<p><em>But McCollum, the religious adviser for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said only around 4 percent or 5 percent of Asatruars are white supremacists. And only a small portion of the religion&#8217;s followers emphasize its warrior aspect, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They follow the golden rule&#8211;treat your neighbor with respect, to respect your elders, to respect your community, that all people have value,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They have a very high moral standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Isn&#8217;t &#8220;Asatruars&#8221; a double plural?)<\/p>\n<p>As for the Southern Poverty Law Center, also quoted in one version, they might have done some good for the civil rights movement thirty or more years ago, but now I think that they are just fear-mongering to keep the donations rolling in so that they all have jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Asatru\" rel=\"tag\">Asatru<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/paganism\" rel=\"tag\">Paganism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macha NightMare, one of the people interviewed about the Asatru-related prison stabbing and subsequent scheduled execution in Virginia, gives her own perspective. There is more to the full story than what went out on the Associated Press feed. Other bloggers have already commented: Dave Haxton here and here, and Jason Pitzl-Waters here. Patrick McCollum&#8217;s comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-bc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1037,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1037","url_meta":{"origin":694,"position":0},"title":"Denver Post Discovers Local Pagans","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Denver's Pagan community is featured in The Denver Post According to chatter on the local listservs, the \"leaving a bottle of whiskey\" bit was the reporter's misunderstanding.Not surprisingly, Colorado's hard-working Wiccan chaplains were completely ignored in this Post article, which seems to suggest that only the Middle Eastern Monotheisms\u2122 can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1362,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1362","url_meta":{"origin":694,"position":1},"title":"Gods of the Blood","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"How to meet the Asatruar at an academic gathering--walk around carrying a copy of Mattias Gardell's Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Gardell, a Swedish historian of religion, also wrote an earlier book on the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), In the Name of Elijah Muhammed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10259,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10259","url_meta":{"origin":694,"position":2},"title":"Paganism(s) Grow in Costa Rica","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Carrying on Ronald Hutton's observation from some years back that Wicca (whatever exactly Wicca is) has become a world religion, here is an article on Costa Rican Wiccans, Druids, Asatruar, and other Pagans. So they are are \"world religions\" now. 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