[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")

[Snuffington]

Don't blame anything but our Godless culture for an uptick in paganisim.

I believe G. K. Chesterton said something along the lines of: "Once men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing. They believe in anything."

[johnb838]

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.

I remember that book! What the heck was it?

The bible says to practice no witchcraft. It doesn't say don't read fantasies about it. This stuff is Anglo-Saxon mythology and I don't think there's anything wrong with it except that Anglo-Saxons are not allowed to have a racial heritage in this PC world. More power to Jo Rowling. I've become a Harry Potter fan.

[DannyTN]

I agree with you. We did have Bewitched, I dream of Jeannie, vanpire movies and various stories and movies with witches and evil. We didn't go running off after paganism.

The difference is that we knew enough about God and scripture to know that certain things were wrong. It might be fun to imagine magical powers, but they didn't exist. Any magical powers that did exist, were either from evil spirits or they were answers to prayer from God. One was clearly wrong, the other clearly right.