Comments on: Forget the Gideon: Inmate Demands Thor’s Hammer and Sword in First Amendment Challenge http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Mon, 28 May 2012 08:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: T.J. Mundy http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-145932 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:28:34 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-145932 We all make mistakes and so I find that if an inmate wishes to practice our faith (Asatru) he should be allowed a Mjolnir pendant, A set of runes, and any Asatru related literature.

]]> By: Brandr Od Ivarson http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-40764 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:12:59 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-40764 The Sagas of Iceland make very clear, and I agree with them, that ‘outlaws’ or criminals stand outside the society of men, and so are banished from the favour and worship of the Gods. Let him sit in his cell and contemplate the ‘Nine Noble Virtues’ that frown on criminal behavior. When he pays his due or ‘wergeld’ to society’ he may then take up worship of the Gods again……

]]> By: PKP http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-6793 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:14:43 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-6793 The same people who would have guessed that christians need churches, no I mean the building kind; the kind of which the cost of would feed, cloth and shelter many of the “lost sheep”; bibles, song books, sunday school books, choir robes, those little tiny glasses for communion, wine for communion, the special round melt in your mouth body of christ bread for communion, priest robes, church buses, a house for the preacher/priest,rosary beads, nun’s robes, a place for the nuns to live….I had best stop here because being a recovering catholic, I could to on and on and on and on about what the christians “require”. This list would have passed our Odinist needs by pages and pages…..

Our faith requires very little, and how sad that those who shout to their heavens “judge lest ye be judged”, are the first one to pass judgement. Why can you not just worship your God and leave us to worship ours. Have we ever attempted to convert the world? No….so why are you so threatened by something that really does not effect you if you would just do your own thing…? Is it really going to hurt you to allow us a small fraction of the incredible amount of “things” you require to worship your God? Odinists in and out of prison are told no by christians all of the time…Why? Because you can.

]]> By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-4983 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:22:28 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/24/forget-the-gideon-inmate-demands-thors-hammer-and-sword-in-first-amendment-challenge/#comment-4983 Who would have guessed such a listing was ever in existence?

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