Posted on 08/14/2023 10:40:40 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Netty has been practising magic for 16 years. She cast a spell to get her current job in banking. She credits other spells with securing subsequent salary raises. She once used a spell to make her boss like her more. Another bagged her the love of her life, seven years ago. She still has the honey jar she used for it – into which she put herbs, a petition and a Corona bottle cap he’d discarded. (She assures me he knows about it.) Raised a Catholic, Netty has not completely reneged on the faith, nor does she see any conflict in casting spells and praying to saints. You might call her a Christian witch. You might be surprised to know there are thousands of them.
Organised religion is in decline. In Western countries, growing numbers are turning their backs on the Church. Thousands of churches shutter each year, faced with dwindling congregations and funds. The 2021 census on religion in England and Wales alarmed many: for the first time since its advent in 1801, less than half the population described themselves as Christian, down from 72 per cent two decades ago. Those ticking “no religion”, the second-most common response, soared to 37.2 per cent. The UK is now, statistically speaking, one of the least religious countries in the world.
Across the Atlantic, the story is similar. In 2020 less than half of Americans belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, the first time congregants slid below the majority in Gallup’s eight-decade study. The holy current in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe is flowing in the same direction.
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You're free to do that.
Nevertheless, I wrote what I wrote, I do not need your "correction", and Yes, you should train your children to be Christians. If you don't, you're violating the "Great Commission" in its most basic form.
I completely disagree with you and consider YOUR position to be unbiblical.
One does not become a Christian without knowing what "Christian" is.
Your position is both unbiblical and absurd.
churches have become big business
I'm not talking about "churches", whatever you may mean by that.
I'm talking about PARENTS.
Yes… free will… that is the fly in the ointment.
They create their oersonal Golden Calf.
Yes. These charlatans have led many astray… seeking the riches of this world while shunning salvation in the next.
Personal
It was the help of a couple Former X Masons who assisted the one to understand Masons hold and the other the loss of what was most precious to him.
——>You cannot profess a true belief in G-d AND practice witchcraft.
Does the same apply to knowingly breaking the 7th-day-Sabbath, or any commandment?
Amen to that!
I work in an academic library. Anything witches or devil worship is usually checked out and never returned or out right stolen. We have a limited and dwindling collection and now that I am the director when this subject matter is stolen or not returned I am not replacing it. If they are that desperate for the knowledge of evil the internet is full of it and most for free.
God Bless you for doing this!
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