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To: discostu
If they want to know why people are leaving Christianity for Wicca instead of claiming Wicca is putting the masses under some evil spell they should look at the face Christianity presents.

Wicca, or Druidism, is a religion which has practised human sacrifice in any society in which it has held power (the last one being Pictish Scotland). The reason people are leaving Christianity for Wicca is the same reason people are leaving Christianity for Scientology. which is generally that, like most people in the elite levels of society, they have no more knowledge of Christianity than you do, which is, as you have demonstrated, precious little.

108 posted on 05/04/2002 10:54:00 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; EternalVigilance
Because of your reluctance to decipher or discuss C.S. Lewis, I didn't bother on the Logical Inversions thread to direct your attention to this that I posted.

Closing lines of Men Without Chests:

However, when I see you taking on some these "schooled" as he warned, I ache for you. I know you predict the end of our culture. You say you must fight the trend, but do you dread it enough? Perhaps much of your gloom stems from your own self-imposed limits? Maybe you haven't confronted these questions? You know the answers to all.

Here and there you have one who seems positively proud to have not been reached, as if having eluded some debilitating disease. And while you offer to them charitable counter-argument, you are lacking Lewis' insights and counsel.

From Lewis' Miracles:

We live in an age where the malignant effectively mislead by appealing to the present generation's unwarranted vanity. "We live at the most informed time to date." But how many are informed broadly themselves. Far too few you can be sure.

I wonder how many of these fools would think they're more brilliant than Isaac Newton, who in half self deprecation, half modesty, but all confidence, explained "If I have perhaps seen further than other men, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." Some in our generation and the next see no need to be modest nor any need for self-skepticism. Sadly, not only ignoramuses are so easily misled.

As always, general, I commend your efforts. I wish I could imbue more useful knowledge at the snap of my figures. Alas, that must be incorporated, thru labor, by the one feeling the need to respond. "...but can't make him drink."

Peace.

Av

117 posted on 05/05/2002 12:49:32 AM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla
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