Posted on 02/24/2020 10:51:48 PM PST by OddLane
Today we focus on the confusing consequences of godlessness. First, we break down atheist Richard Dawkins’ contradictory take on eugenics. Then, we analyze a troubling trend among young women: witchcraft.
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Here is a link to a talk given in the late 70s by former hereditary witch, John Todd, aka Lance Collins, about five years after he became a Christian, saved out of the occult.
There are, I believe, six of these, about an hour long each. Quite extraordinary, and a fascinating listen.
John Todd Tape 2 - Witchcraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOvLwP26MQA
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Witchcraft is certainly more sensible that atheism (a religion based on a cosmic-level "negative" assumption).
I agree; if the constraints of traditional religion don’t interest them, they’ll just make up something else. I see witchcraft as appealing to just a younger version of environmentalists (who grew up with “Twilight” and crap like that); people trying to fabricate meaning in their lives.
I see an editorial ‘lump them together’.
Three words: godlessness, atheist, witchcraft. An atheist, by current definition, is a skeptic, waiting for demonstrable evidence. Buddhism is godlessness, as is Taoism or Confucianism. Witchcraft is a practice, ergo, ‘craft’. They can still be of any religious group,, to include all Christianity, Judaism, and mohammedanism. I suggest you go back to Gerald Gardner, Marie Laveau, John Dee, or Robert Anton Wilson, or even late author Heinlein, and his idea of The Church of All Worlds.
The U.S. military has included Wicca as part of tthe military chaplain’s manual since 1976, 54 years ago.
Since the inception of the prosperity preaching in the ‘80’s, Christianity has begun to lose it’s once brilliance. Add to that, with modern society hearing preachers telling women to submit to their husbands, and you hear, “Like hell I will!”
So, here comes witchcraft, the empowerment of self-realization, self-discovery and self-determinatiion, a Jeffersonian ideal.
American individualism, though maybe not what was pondered, in action.
Also 1st Amendment covered!
Wiccans: Little girls who still play make-believe.
I suggest you go back to Gerald Gardner, Marie Laveau, John Dee, or Robert Anton Wilson, or even late author Heinlein, and his idea of The Church of All Worlds.
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is, of course, fiction. But, RAH did have some connections to that world. He was peripheral to Jack Parsons' circle in LA in the '50s, had L. Ron Hubbard as a house guest for a while in the WWII era. And his second wife (Leslyn) was a witch.
See William H. Patterson's biography of Heinlein.
Robert Anton Wilson is someone I read a lot of when I was younger, but bounce off hard from now. I get the creeps even seeing his stuff for sale.
You would be surprised at the interest and practice of chaos magic.
Were it not for the repeal of The Witchcraft Act in 1951, by the British, I don’t believe it would have taken off as it has
As some old friends of mine who know about this stuff have said, young people who dabble in witchcraft aren't just playing with make-believe, they are playing with a high-voltage power line.
Very dangerous stuff.
Witchcraft isn't just make-believe, it is a gateway to demonic attachment...even a gateway to demonic possession. And though we like to pretend this stuff is just myth and make-believe, it is very real.
You would be surprised at the interest and practice of chaos magic.Were it not for the repeal of The Witchcraft Act in 1951, by the British, I don’t believe it would have taken off as it has
I don't think I'd be surprised at all. It was all over the British upper classes, at least.
C. S. Lewis, in his book about his early "Surprised by Joy" makes mention of an "Anglo American occultic tradition", and remarks that he had (providentially) avoided being the prey of such.
His friend, Charles Williams, was deep in it for a while. One gets the impression reading his novels that some of the dark magicians he wrote of might have had models in real life.
Crowley, of course, would have been active through this period. Dion Fortune.
All sorts of stuff out there.
You are so right.
The enemy will try to make it attractive and to appear harmless, but it never is.
Do you think witchcraft is “make-believe”?
“Do you think witchcraft is “make-believe”?”
You’re gullible if you don’t.
You’re shallow if you do.
Shallow? That’s retarded.
Little girls believe in make-believe witchcraft. Grow up, Sunshine.
Retarded? Only to a shallow, naive person.
The occult is not make-believe to any serious Christian believer.
Demons are absolutely real, and people that delve into this stuff expose themselves to them. They are playing make-believe in their minds, because they find no other meaning in their lives.
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