Author: lachele

  • Q: Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine, or Pro-USA? A: Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine, and Pro-USA.

    Please stop the horrors If you identify as a member of one of the Abrahamic religions, thank you for reading.  I got no dogs in this race, but it affects me nonetheless. I expect that many Christians are taught, and possibly believe, that the world-wide dominance of Christianity is due to the loving and peaceful…

  • Eat The Young White Males

    According to the US Border Patrol Criminal Alien Statistics, from 2017 to now-ish (7+ years), slightly more than 200 cases of homicide and/or manslaughter were committed by criminal aliens.  Although the statistics vary somewhat and report differing measurements, one study spanning 2009 to 2020 (11 years) found that 1,363 were fatally shot in mass killings by…

  • Raise Hell, Witches

    Or you will soon find yourselves living in one. Those who know me don’t often hear my political opinions. I’m neither Republican nor Democrat, so pretty much everyone disagrees with me.  This is a non-partisan issue. The things that are happening in the government are almost certainly motivated by Dominionist ideology. Two of the main…

  • The Rapture Can’t Come Soon Enough

    I don’t really want the Christians to go away. I just want to be allowed to live in peace. How does one negotiate a win-win with a bully? This piece reflects the opinion and experience of the author. I do not pretend, or want, to speak on anyone else’s behalf. Some of these opinions are…

  • The Price of Being Strange

    We’re not a normal church.  We’re not a normal non-profit.  We’re not a normal community.  You might be surprised how much harder that makes everything.  We were certainly surprised. This post explores some of the problems we’ve had in trying to be the service-related organization that we want to be. No Building? No Book? No…

  • Whither APPD?

    The first Athens Pagan Pride Day was put on by Christian Avalon with the help of the UGA Pagan Student Association in 2008. They did an excellent job of it. They were unable to continue doing it, so Christian asked AAP if we wanted to take it over. We weren’t sure we had the time…

  • Summoning Technopagans

    Some of you might know that our digital resources are run by us, on our own servers. Our main communications platform, therefore, is not part of someone else’s cloud. It’s part of our own home-crafted cloud. We own and control the data (well… we can’t control what individuals do on their devices, but… mostly this…

  • A New Site

    It’s taken quite a lot of effort, but we now have a shiny new WordPress site! We hope you like it. We’re still filling it in. I suspect we will forever be still filling it in, but that’s how it goes. Please take a look around. Let us know what you think or if you…