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Witchcraft moves to the mainstream in America as Christianity declines [tr]
UK Telegraph ^ | December 21, 2018 | Rachel Ray

Posted on 12/21/2018 6:29:13 AM PST by C19fan

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Aren’t they spelling “witch” wrong?


21 posted on 12/21/2018 7:10:18 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: BradtotheBone

People imho are not falling away from Christianity, they are leaving corrupt and degenerate churches polluted by deviants and perverts who only want parishioners money. People are migrating to new churches where messages of hope and healing are available.


22 posted on 12/21/2018 7:11:42 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: C19fan

The article is wishful triumphalism, but shows that “progress” really means re-popularizing all the old vices, from sodomy to astrology. “Progressives” want to bring back the immorality of the pre-Christian world, only this time with high-tech.


23 posted on 12/21/2018 7:17:39 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: C19fan
Witchcraft (and Satanism) in the world, you think?

Boise priest who lived in ‘world of Satanism and pornography’ sentenced to 25 years in prison

24 posted on 12/21/2018 7:20:39 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: fwdude

I have a co-worker who is like a little sister to me and a decade ago when her marriage was crumbling, she was separated and in the process of a divorce an old boy from high school out of the blue connected with her on facebook.

He was in the military and was into witchcraft. She told me she went out with him once and he told her some of the craziest things about her that he couldn’t have known from facebook and she hadn’t communicated with him in decades. He was angry, said she was his and wanted her to have no male friends in her life.

She sought my advice and I told her you are a Christian you need to tread carefully here with this guy, you know he is into something dangerous as he has told you he was into some dark stuff etc... Lets just say strange things started happening to her, I even had an event happen and this weirdo told her of things happening and things he was “doing” to her and her friends, which he couldn’t have known about.

She listened to me and didn’t let it go very far and told him which enraged him. She told him I belong to Christ I cannot go into the darkness, that she cared for him as a friend and would pray for him. He was not happy but vanished as quickly as he had appeared in her life.

Within a year or two she met a guy at church, they fell madly in love and have been happily married since. She dodged a bullet with wicca man. These people are playing with powers they don’t understand and are in great danger.


25 posted on 12/21/2018 7:37:17 AM PST by sarge83
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26 posted on 12/21/2018 7:40:45 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: sarge83

Oh, I have no doubts of the reality of the supernatural spiritual world. There is power there. I even think many of the leftist activist we see snarling in “protests” are animated by demons. I cannot account for their deranged, otherworldly expressions and utterances any other way.


27 posted on 12/21/2018 7:43:10 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: C19fan

The ugly warthogs need something to keep them busy. Lacking the mental facilities of normal people, they have turned to a medieval superstition.


28 posted on 12/21/2018 7:50:21 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: C19fan

In the 1920s, the second Ku Klux Klan bragged that it had a membership of 1 million. What they didn’t say was that they had a huge turnover rate, with people joining one week and quitting the next, after finding out what the KKK was about.

Think of this when you think of witchcraft, and how the most common characteristics of witches are low self esteem and borderline mental illness.

“Dakota Bracciale, a 29-year-old transgender/queer witch and co-owner of Catland Books and witch shop in Brooklyn...”

Yeah, not what I would call a pillar of stability. But with a lot in common with other garden variety witches.


29 posted on 12/21/2018 8:18:05 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("There is no 'try' only sasuga!")
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To: Perseverando

Does he at least get to keep his Ouija board and porno in prison? Some liberal lawyer will say that’s cruel and unusual punishment to separate him from practicing his “religion”.


30 posted on 12/21/2018 8:37:03 AM PST by BipolarBob (Have a McClane Christmas : "Now I have a machine gun HO-HO - HO".)
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To: C19fan

Is Hitlery or Moochelle heading up the Witchcraft group?


31 posted on 12/21/2018 8:59:03 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: C19fan

satan’s workers the Children of Pan. Their ravings mean nothing but remind us that satan will never stop so we must never stop running to the light.

Merry Christmas to all.


32 posted on 12/21/2018 9:03:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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To: sarge83

That’s an interesting story. I had a childhood friend reach out to me this summer. We were both raised Christian but in the last few years he became “enlightened”, left Christianity, and is now an atheist/yoga practitioner and is training to become a “spiritual healer” through hallucinogenic drugs.

Over the course of a month we had several phone conversations as well as a couple of dinners together where we discussed my Christianity and his atheism. When it became apparent to him that he could not persuade me to leave Christ, I have not heard from him again. Unfortunately, I know he has done the same thing with a couple of our peers and they, being weak, have fallen away from Christ.

The thing I always find ironic about those who oppose religion is that they still end up in groups formed around some other philosophy or ideology. They reject the One True God and replace Him with another god, whether it be atheism, working out, yoga, veganism, etc..

As far as witches go, Portland Oregon is a hotbed for the witch movement. The universal vein I have seen streaking through all the witches I’ve met is self-loathing/severe depression—often times induced by heavy drinking, drug use, and promiscuity. Like many liberals, they are not happy people and want others to be as miserable as they are.


33 posted on 12/21/2018 9:51:18 AM PST by Dexter Morgan ("MSNBC News? Appalling. Appalling and amateurish. So both at the same time; it's a bad combination.")
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To: C19fan

This is all
Just wacknut women
Who cares ?
Christ rules.


34 posted on 12/21/2018 10:16:26 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: C19fan

A repeat of a post I made back in October on this same subject.

One thing to know and understand here, there are, to my knowledge, few if any requirements or strictures leveled upon those who want to ‘practice’ paganism. From what I understand, it is mostly ‘do your own thing’ and if there is a morality to it, it appears to be a generic ‘do no harm to others’.

Even the most dim Christian knows that there are expectation involved in the Christian Belief. There is a strong morality embodied in faithful practice, there is a strong encouragement to be charitable in both actions and finances. There is a certainty that there will be a judgement upon your actions in the after-life. [For my Jewish Brethren, I believe that they follow most of the same morality. As for their ends, GOD decides that, it is above my pay-grade (grin)!]

To believe in Christ, Crucified and Resurrected and that GOD sent him to Earth for that purpose, is to force yourself into believing that which is beyond proof. Paganism is easy and as such it does little that is not already innate within the person. Christianity has the historically proven ability to redirect the most lost soul.

This is my FAITH and BELIEF, I can choose no other!


35 posted on 12/21/2018 10:24:24 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: C19fan

We can thank the Harry Potter series for this.


36 posted on 12/21/2018 10:34:49 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . ")
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To: C19fan

They even had a 2nd place presidential candidate in 2016.


37 posted on 12/21/2018 2:37:13 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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