#patheos

"If we look at the years between (say) the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, then overwhelming majority of professional, scholarly, or other expert authorities dealing with child sexual abuse did not regard it as a grave or pressing issue. Accordingly, the issue attracted little attention in terms of publications, whether scholarly or popular. The scarcity of expert or professional literature itself conveyed a message about the proper degree of concern about issues of sexual abuse, molestation, and pedophilia. Surely – one might have thought – if nobody was writing about a topic, it could not really be that serious or threatening? No book specifically on pedophilia was available in English before 1964, and even then, the material it offered was extremely slim. Not until 1977 was there an academic journal specifically devoted to issues of child abuse and child protection, namely Child Abuse and Neglect."

Beckett does it again. Short, sweet, and damn if it doesn’t capture Lokean philosophy in one fell swoop. A great read, especially during these Times. 

Mat Auryn has written an extensive list of all the many epithets of Hekate. I printed it out for my book of shadows and in my case, it is eight pages long.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adamantinemuse/2020/08/hekate-pop-culture-liminal-fantasies-or-modern-temples/

Mary is sometimes referred to as “Theotokos” – the “mother of God.” I submit that Mary is also “Punkotokos” – mother of all rebels with a cause."

Like, everyone and their mother wants to give their own Hot Take on things, and that’s the Internet, I get it, but I don’t exactly see why these things apparently require a Catholic lens for your Hot Takes.