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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Why? While silly, they're completely harmless.
Good grief, this is the 21st Century and we have people who think they can cast spells.
Shaking my head.....
1.5 million? There’s probably more Scientologists.
Their claims notwithstanding, the actual number of Scientologists in the United States is probably somewhere in the ballpark of 50,000.
Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blasphemy, demonic posessions, what more can be said about this new tv show that mainstreams satanism and evil of every persuasion?
>> Besides, there are a lot of military Pagans, both active and former, that fought for your 1st Amendment rights
Okay. How many?
No, not all “cults” are equal.
Recently had a lovely taxi driver tell me about the intelligence that bestowed Islam. In his opinion, Islam was intellectually supreme. I appreciated his conviction, but he was nonetheless on a mission.
Islam is a war plan.
Ok so PEW research has 70% of Americans being Christian, and Wiccans being only part of the 0.3% that dont have a category...
Spot on
Boy, Yahoo has really gone downhill in it’s subject matter!
Jim Jones wore shades to hide his megalomania.
Last report I read, over 50,000.
I forgot to mention that the military chaplains manual contain a whole section for Pagans, and has done so since 2007.
I use this, since it is the most “neutral” source of information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccans_and_Pagans_in_the_United_States_military
Demographic is STILL behind the Church Of Wookie
Since 2007? Wow, that’s a Bush-era malfeasance.
Thanks, Terry.
Did you notice that “shrub” is on record, both video and audio, speaking open disappointment that military members “are of that kind, and should maybe find something else to believe in”?
These were active duty troops that he said this of!!
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