{"id":78,"date":"2003-12-07T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-07T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:04:25","slug":"78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Forbidden"},"content":{"rendered":"

A list of laws against Pagan practice<\/a>, from the late days of the Roman Empire (4th-6th centuries C.E.), compiled by Christopher Ocker <\/a>of San Francisco Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n

Those Christian emperors just swung a big ax. On the other hand, the divine Julian’s ways of dealing with Christians<\/a> were much subtler. After all, why force someone who does not believe in the gods to teach the Iliad<\/em>, which is so painful to their conscience?<\/p>\n

Medicine man granted ‘confession’ right<\/strong><\/p>\n

Courtesy of Belief Net via Gus DiZerega comes this federal judge’s decisionthat a Native medicine man can enjoy the same privilege of keeping secrets that Christian clergy enjoy, when those secrets are given in confidence during sacramental confession or its equivalent. (UPDATE: Link is broken.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A list of laws against Pagan practice, from the late days of the Roman Empire (4th-6th centuries C.E.), compiled by Christopher Ocker of San Francisco Theological Seminary. Those Christian emperors just swung a big ax. On the other hand, the divine Julian’s ways of dealing with Christians were much subtler. After all, why force someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,152],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-tribal-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-78","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13059,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13059","url_meta":{"origin":78,"position":0},"title":"The Passing of Christian R\u00e4tsch, Magical Ethnobotanist","author":"Chas S. 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