anti-witchcraft

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> 
wrote:

> Of course!  But again, there is a very simplistic interpretation in 
> some popular Christianity:  magic, wizard = witchcraft = bad.  Just 
> try to tell most American fundamentalist Christians that Wicca is 
> about healing, living in harmony with all things,  and praising the 
> spiritual realm, and see how far you get.  Wicca =must= be bad 
> because it gives a positive valuation to the words "magic," 
> "witches," and "witchcraft."  The insistence by Wicca[n]s that they
> share the basic Christian values is too often interpreted as one of 
> the snares of the devil, and the possibility that what they 
> practice [is not] the witchcraft condemned by the Bible is
> dismissed because of the magic ;-) words.

I thought they hated us because <we taunt them about being stupid 
bigots> <no, I didn't say that> 1) very, very few of us have accepted 
Jesus Christ as our personal savior and 2) none of us believe that 
the only way a human can avoid eternal torture in Hell is to accept 
Jesus Christ as personal savior AND the only valid god -- we continue 
to worship many other perfectly real gods (my favorite is Bast), 
3) we pointedly disagree with their anti-sex attitude (cf. previous 
parenthesis).