[the_old_crowd] debates about HP and Witchcraft

[Kat Macfarlane]

Witchcraft is perfectly real. It is (at least, mercifully, in this part of the world) an accepted alternate religion, as real (and as ancient or more so) as Judaism or Buddhism. It has nothing to do with Satanism, which is a Christian spin-off. Witches do not worship the devil. They have no concept of a devil. In their experience, there is enough evil in the human heart to explain what goes on in this world (usually in the name of god), without inventing something like Satan. Their credo is, "Harm none." 

Don't get me wrong. I have the greatest admiration and respect for Jeshua ben Joseph and his simple, wise, humane teachings. It's what the patriarchal Christian establishment has used them for that infuriates me.

I am neither a Christian nor a witch. I describe myself as a born-again Pagan; Athene Parthenos is my patron goddess, and she and I are seriously frightened at what we see going on in the world today in the name of religion.

--Gatta

  Sherry now:

  ...they believe they have taught their four children
  that witchcraft is not real,...


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