Posted on 12/21/2018 6:26:50 PM PST by marshmallow
Witchcraft is thriving in the US, with an estimated 1.5 million Americans now identifying as witches - more than the total number of Presbyterians. As Christianity declines across the country, paganism has swung to the mainstream, with witchcraft paraphernalia for sale on every high street and practises normalised across popular culture. In the past two years, it has also become darkly politicised.
Dakota Bracciale, a 29-year-old transgender/queer witch and co-owner of Catland Books and witch shop in Brooklyn, is pleased with the outcome of the ritual hex placed on US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October. The curse, carried out from Catland Books, was well attended by witches, atheists and humanists - and was followed around the country on social media.
Millennials, says Bracciale, are looking for spiritualism outside traditional religion. “The hex centres on the notion that we live in a universe of chaos, entropy, destruction, death, decay with a final ending of oblivion - scientists are telling us. So the witch does everything for themselves - there is no other help in this universe of decay and chaos. If you don’t get in the driver’s seat things will just get worse,” the witch said.
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Im guessing the witches all vote Democrat, just a guess
Satanism, Stalinism & mental illness go hand and hand.
Count on Yahoo to promulgate its never ending secular, humanistic crap, that is all they know.
Actually thats not true
We are becoming a nation with a large percentage of freaks, many of whom want us dead. This isn’t going to end well.
Old Dakota.....
“Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who is the fairest one of all?””
“Sure as hell isn’t you Dakota.
You got a face that looks like someone drew eyes on a baboon’s behind.”
Never thought I'd read that sentence.
The 50-IQ apes in the propaganda press write this stupid story every year. It’s fake, it’s false and nobody believes it except the idiots at the NYT.
The Nazi-commie progressives are outnumbered 10 to 1. And they can’t fight for squat.
Don’t believe me? Go to any leftist weenie bar and try to pick a fight. You will be disappointed.
We need to bring back burning at the stake for witches.
Another way to put that is "0.43% of Americans identify as witches."
Quite the intimidation factor there.
re: “We need to bring back burning at the stake for witches.”
Y’ALL CAN’T!! IT IS A FIRST AMENDMENT THING, REMEMBER?!?!?
Besides, there are a lot of military Pagans, both active and former, that fought for your 1st Amendment rights, so let THEM have THEIRS!!
Thomas Jefferson wrote that a man’s standing with his god, was not a choice to be made by you or me, but by him, alone, as he sees fit, without a question from anyone else.
Hillary would look totally natural on a broom
Witchcraft is about as attracting as islam.
::We are becoming a nation with a large percentage of freaks....::
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I don’t believe that; I think that “they” want us to believe that.
Good line I am going to use
Satanism is a ideology of hate. Hate is the addictive component of Satanism. It is just as addictive as any narcotic. Those who follow Satanism do not follow it because of the ideology. They follow it because it satisfies their addiction.
this freakin nonsense about ‘Christianity declining’ is a secular myth that is being repeated in hopes that the majority of people will believe it at some point-
“Professors from Baylor University’s Institute for Religion Studies in Waco, Texas, participated in a panel discussion at the National Press Club focusing on the “secularization myth,” where they lambasted the media’s spin on various surveys which has led many to believe that irreligion is on the rise in the United States.”
“Meanwhile, a widespread decline in churchgoing and religious affiliation had contributed to a growing anxiety among conservative believers.” Statements like this are uttered with such confidence and frequency that most Americans accept them as uncontested truisms. This one emerged just this month in an exceedingly silly article in The Atlantic on Vice President Mike Pence.
Religious faith in America is going the way of the Yellow Pages and travel maps, we keep hearing. It’s just a matter of time until Christianity’s total and happy extinction, chortle our cultural elites. Is this true? Is churchgoing and religious adherence really in “widespread decline” so much so that conservative believers should suffer “growing anxiety”?
Two words: Absolutely not.
New research published late last year by scholars at Harvard University and Indiana University Bloomington is just the latest to reveal the myth. This research questioned the “secularization thesis,” which holds that the United States is following most advanced industrial nations in the death of their once vibrant faith culture. Churches becoming mere landmarks, dance halls, boutique hotels, museums, and all that.
Not only did their examination find no support for this secularization in terms of actual practice and belief, the researchers proclaim that religion continues to enjoy “persistent and exceptional intensity” in America. These researchers hold our nation “remains an exceptional outlier and potential counter example to the secularization thesis.”
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