A Soldier's Freedom Of Religion

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been denying surviving family members the right to have a Wiccan pentacle, and possibly other religious symbols, placed on the grave markers of deceased soldiers who were their husbands or wives, sons or daughters.

This has been causing quite an uproar, to say the least, because the soldiers died serving their country. Yet their country, where freedom of religion is one of its basic rights, is denying a deceased soldier's right of religious freedom when the VA denies Wiccan and other religious symbols on his or her military marker. I believe this is due, in part, to well-meaning people who simply do not understand that the Wiccan pentagram is not a symbol of the devil. Instead, it is well known, to anyone who has a computer, that the Wiccan symbol, a five-pointed star in a circle, represents the integration of the body and spirit, and the spiritual mastery of the four elements. This is not satanic worship. The pentagram has a history predating Christianity. Full Story

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