[Zavien Doombringer]

He pointed to the ancient Pagan motto: "An (if) it harm none, do what you will".

Interesting to note, these very words are in the Satanic bible, "do as thou wilt"

[TalBlack]

Don't blame anything but our Godless culture for an uptick in paganisim. When I was a kid, back in 1967, there was a book wherein two boys find a scroll that calls back the pirate Blackbeard from the dead. It was my favorite book, but there was no chance I would take any of its black arts seriously because I was steeped, both by the culture (even then dying)and my Catholic religion in a God who would be angry. Nature hates a vacuum ; no God and SOMETHING must take His place. I would have thought Harry Potter was the absolute last word in entertainment back then. I also would have thought "Sabrina" was a BABE. Heck I was madly in love with Elizabeth Montgomery at the time! ("Bewitched")

[MI]

"Fresh back from a trip to Scotland to lift an old hex from the Loch Ness Monster, he warned teenagers against joining witch covens too young.

"There are some bloody weird people out there," he said."

No kidding!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Paganism and the ancient art of witchcraft are on the rise, experts say, as the summer's most celebrated Pagan festival approaches.

Personally, I attribute this to sales of Hillary's book.

[joesnuffy]

It twas no accident that the latest Potter
was released on a witches holliday

[dighton]

[dogbyte12]

Harry Potter and Sabrina... I saw them burning a puppy on top of a pentagram... and sob, sob... they conjured up a demon of lucifer. It was blue, with red flames, and it had horns on it's head. It was terrible.

[RonF]

"The Evangelical Alliance calls on government and TV regulatory bodies to monitor programmes which promote or glamorise Pagan issues," he told Reuters.

Not being familiar with British regulatory agencies, what business would it be of such agencies if British television promote or glamorize Pagan issues?

[Grut]

Think of Wicca as co-ed Masons; group membership and a little ceremony without a lot of substance. It's harmless enough that worrying about it is like worrying about spinach abuse.

[Snowy]

Note: Harry Potter celebrates Christmas.

[Xenalyte]

People who are so intellectually bereft as to adopt a "belief system" allegedly found in the Harry Potter books would be believing something else stupid absent the books. Let's not dogpile on Ms. Rowling.

[FairWitness]

Soaring Pagan numbers have churches worrying and calling for stricter controls on cult TV programmes and films that celebrate sorcery like "Harry Potter", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch".

Do what you will to Harry Potter and Sabrina, but hands off of Buffy!

[RJCogburn]

churches worrying and calling for stricter controls on cult TV programmes and films that celebrate sorcery like "Harry Potter", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch".

If 'the churches' have to worry about such lightweight stuff, then the churches' message is pretty weak to begin with.

[Servant of the Nine]

Why would this happen today?
Why didn't "I dream of Jeanie" make us all pagans in the 50s?

Maybe because the mainline churches have made fools of themselves and the fundies are undignified.

So9

[truenospinzone]

Anything that makes teenage girls feel powerful is bound to go down well.

Well, isn't that an unfortunate choice of words...

[HamiltonJay]

hahhahahahah Sorry, but blaming a TV show and a children's fairy tale for a rise in paganism? hahahahahaha

Its the UK for crying out loud, hardly known in the modern age for its large overwhelming ties to religion in its public life.

[Corin Stormhands]

For your reading enjoyment.

[Pure Country]

"The Evangelical Alliance calls on government and TV regulatory bodies to monitor programmes which promote or glamorise Pagan issues," he told Reuters.

But..this can't be right. Dobson said that the books were okay.

[Liberal Classic]

The evil legacy of Glenda the so-called Good witch of the North lives on!

[Porterville]

Thinning out the herd.