Here is a link to a talk given in the late 70s by former hereditary witch, John Todd, aka Lance Collins, about five years after he became a Christian, saved out of the occult.
There are, I believe, six of these, about an hour long each. Quite extraordinary, and a fascinating listen.
John Todd Tape 2 - Witchcraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOvLwP26MQA
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Witchcraft is certainly more sensible that atheism (a religion based on a cosmic-level "negative" assumption).
I see an editorial ‘lump them together’.
Three words: godlessness, atheist, witchcraft. An atheist, by current definition, is a skeptic, waiting for demonstrable evidence. Buddhism is godlessness, as is Taoism or Confucianism. Witchcraft is a practice, ergo, ‘craft’. They can still be of any religious group,, to include all Christianity, Judaism, and mohammedanism. I suggest you go back to Gerald Gardner, Marie Laveau, John Dee, or Robert Anton Wilson, or even late author Heinlein, and his idea of The Church of All Worlds.
The U.S. military has included Wicca as part of tthe military chaplain’s manual since 1976, 54 years ago.
Since the inception of the prosperity preaching in the ‘80’s, Christianity has begun to lose it’s once brilliance. Add to that, with modern society hearing preachers telling women to submit to their husbands, and you hear, “Like hell I will!”
So, here comes witchcraft, the empowerment of self-realization, self-discovery and self-determinatiion, a Jeffersonian ideal.
American individualism, though maybe not what was pondered, in action.
Also 1st Amendment covered!
Wiccans: Little girls who still play make-believe.
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