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[Please note: I don’t intend this to become a party political discussion] I was wondering what people make of Christine O’ Donnell’s admission that she was into “witchcraft”.
In what context was the comment made? I’m into Witchcraft, too. But I don’t think I have anything in common with her.
OK…after some googling I think she is….uneducated. Witchcraft has nothing to do with satan. Satan is a part of Christian mythology and has no place in Wicca or neo-Paganism. To say that a Wiccan altar is somehow satanic is bigoted.
Oh, and I think she is lying about there being “blood” on the “altar” that she had a picnic on. Wiccan’s do NOT believe in sacrificing animals (if that is where she was going with that).
I’m not into witchcraft, but I also don’t really have anything against it. I am also not sure who Christine O’Donnell is beyond the fact that the news establishment would like to make an entertaining story of her statement. I skimmed past a FaceBook post on it by someone I know. Along the lines of JustMe, I think the religion of Wicca (aka Witchcraft sometimes) is is largely misunderstood due to suppression and propaganda from the Christian establishment over many centuries.
Also, we really are not that far removed from a long history of magical world view thinking. We’re really only maybe 150 years into a newly established material world view, which is only a drop in the bucket of human culture. Up until the late 19th century, even the very well-educated were interested in magic, and saw the world through the lens of the interplay of magical forces (very real to them, as real as electricity or gravity).
Mormonism was born in a still strong culture of magical reality. Indeed some of the most prominent elements of our theology are tied to that era — priesthood power and authority as real (not symbolic), blessings and cursings, physical ordinances being necessary for ones journey, and certainly the whole milieu of the LDS Temple ceremonies speak to strong roots in a magical world view.
If people think that Joseph Smith was “imaginative”, they should look at Gardner and his foundation of Wicca (which has little or nothing to do with genuine paganism and everything to do with twentieth century England… but i digress). No, Wicca is not Satanic, but there certainly are witches around who take the “left hand path”, which is presumably what she means. There are several unconnected forms of Satanism on the go, so I don’t know if she’s referring to one of them. Ironically, in Laveyan Satanism, it’s the Christian idea which is against free will, the opposite of Mormonism…
I find the whole thing amusing, but is it actually something to try and add a little sass to her squeaky clean image?
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