Posted on 03/14/2017 1:10:20 PM PDT by VaeVictis
MANY YOUNG ADULTS ARE TURNING TO WITCHCRAFT AS A WAY TO REBEL AGAINST THEIR CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN UPBRINGINGS
Young adults in America are far less likely to identify themselves as “Christians” than previous generations of Americans, but that does not mean that they have given up on searching for spiritual meaning in their lives. According to Wikipedia, one very popular form of witchcraft known as Wicca has been growing at a rate of more than 100 percent annually in recent years, and this has been happening at a time when Christianity has been in decline in the United States. Of course other pagan and occult groups have been exploding in popularity as well, and as you will see below, one of the primary reasons for this is because many young adults are seeking ways to rebel against their conservative Christian upbringings.
I have written much about how young adults in this country are far more politically liberal than their parents and grandparents, and this enormous cultural shift in values has a spiritual dimension to it as well.
A recent Barna Group study found that only 4 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 have a Biblical worldview.
Only 4 percent.
The shocking truth is that the values of most Millennials much more easily fit into pagan spirituality than they do into most evangelical Christian churches.
If you want to sleep around with as many people as possible, that is okay in witchcraft. If you want to take drugs and get high every day, that is okay in witchcraft. If you want to be a radical pro-abortion feminist, that is okay in witchcraft. If you want to be a gay transsexual exhibitionist, that is okay in witchcraft.
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True, same as I. In the end, they both worship the same god though.
Satan can take on the form of an Angel of Light: For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. 1 Corinthians 11:13-15
“They are in for finding out Romans 1 the hard way.”
Yup ! Romans 1 explains it all. Refuse to acknowledge who is the Creator, and demon worship, perversion and self-destruction follows.
Always has, always will.
Lol! I’d not seen that one, but fitting with all those dark masses carried out against him a few weeks ago.
It’s all America’s fault. How many impressionable children believed it when told, “You can do magic. You can have anything that you desire. Magic! And, you know, you’re the one who can put out the fire.”
Hmm? Yes like this story from the end of February.
Witches Unite to Cast ‘Binding Spell’ on Trump and Followers
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/24/witches-unite-cast-binding-spell-trump-followers/
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The Coven Queen was almost elected President.
Although witches are certainly an offense to God.
True that.
I always bring up the fact that “precious liberal europe” burned witches by the literal thousands and less than a dozen were killed in the colonies...
It really pisses them off to debunk their whole “witch persecution complex narrative”
What a tragedy......
Plus nonsense like *Christian yoga*.
You can’t separate the spiritual from the yoga.
The different positions are prayer positions to the different deities indicating to the demonic that you are open to their work in your life.
There is simply NO messing around with ANY of the occult in any way. Not yoga, not marital arts, not the horoscope, not reading books like Harry Potter, not any of that stuff.
Luke 18:8
And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
It is not only a matter of taking God out of schools but also a matter of college graduates who have been without work for years, whose lives went up in smoke, and who were taught and believed that they were looked after by a caring and providential God.
If Trump could really bring back the jobs he promised, you will see the blooming of religious fervor in this country as you have never seen before. Those that have never been unemployed do not understand how many desperate people live in this country — to them, the unemployed are mere statistics. In this entire nation, jobs are still more important than Rinocare, taxes, etc(although they are interrelated) It is easy to talk and preach about God’s goodness but many of the unemployed scoff at the good news. To many unemployed, jobs are more precious than life itself. They would gladly give up their life if they could purchase a job with it for themselves or for a loved one. It is not that people stopped believing in the existence of God, but that they start questioning His relevance in this life.
Harry Potter and Bruce Lee? lmao... wait, you’re serious?
because many young adults are seeking ways to rebel against their conservative Christian upbringings.
I can't help seeing Wicca, and other attempts to resurrect various paganisms, as just that -- a deliberate rebellion against Christianity. Wicca's history is shallow, and known.
Exodus 22:18
“You shall not suffer a witch to live.”
Revelation 2:20-23
“Nevertheless, I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and it will repay each of you according to your deeds.”
This woman’s teaching was the deep things of Satan (2:24).
Point is: these “witches” are without excuse. In Romans 1:18-32 we see what happens to those who will not retain knowledge of God, having been exposed to the truth.
Christ may be willing to give time to repent. But people who harden their hearts to that point may find he has hardened it for them.
Martial arts are connected to Eastern religions and Harry Potter is all about witchcraft and makes no secret about it.
The supernatural is NOT harmless. It is real and it is very dangerous to mess around with.
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