"Many Young Adults Are Turning To Witchcraft As A Way To Rebel"

[miknik5]

Skyclad.



Why not post the study showing the efficacy of spells and change that?

Not interested

 

[Desk trauma]

Not interested

Why wouldn't you be interested is substantiating your position?

Why would you be interested in ungodly things?

That's a somewhat odd question to pose to an atheist.

You seem very concerned about witchcraft and its effects, why not detail that or do we need to treat it like Voldemort?

 

[TerranceL]

You already do....it's called public schooling.

Are you sure that "education is a counter to religion" is really the message you wanna run with?

 

[redleghunter]

Are you sure that "education is a counter to religion" is really the message you wanna run with?

The smiley face not showing?

 

[LutheranGuy123]

Not interested

Just to clarify something, do you know what efficacy means? He's saying that witchcraft does not actually work, not that people don't believe it. And if you ARE suggesting that people can have magic powers or supernatural abilities (outside of Godly miracles), then you are blaspheming.

 

[MrSpikey]

I'm asking you to provide evidence, such as a scientific study, showing that it's not just LARPing. Do you have any such evidence?

I believe there was a study a few years ago that concluded that witches weigh the same as ducks, and are therefore made out of wood.

If that doesn't settle the matter, then nothing will.

 

[redleghunter]

I believe there was a study a few years ago that concluded that witches weigh the same as ducks, and are therefore made out of wood.

If that doesn't settle the matter, then nothing will.

Hmm.

 

[LutheranGuy123]

Hmm.

I mean it's a fair cop.

 

[miknik5]

Just to clarify something, do you know what efficacy means? He's saying that witchcraft does not actually work, not that people don't believe it. And if you ARE suggesting that people can have magic powers or supernatural abilities (outside of Godly miracles), then you are blaspheming.

And you sir can wait then for these "efficacious signs " from another christ" who will do all these "wonderful" things

And I will tell you that anyone who flocks to that one will be marked

But it won't be for life

I'm not interested in signs
Though a wicked generation looks for one

 

[miknik5]

I want to be clear. We're not allowed to physically harm anyone but there are people who do delve into black magic regardless of what sex they are or what name they have called themselves

 

[ViaCrucis]

Perspective:

"During the Early Middle Ages, the Christian Churches did not conduct witch trials.[4] The Germanic Council of Paderborn in 785 explicitly outlawed the very belief in witches, and the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne later confirmed the law. Among Orthodox Eastern Christians concentrated in the Byzantine Empire, belief in witchcraft was widely regarded as deisidaimonia—superstition—and by the 9th and 10th centuries in the Latin Christian West, belief in witchcraft had begun to be seen as heresy." - Christian views on magic - Wikipedia

The modern "Christian" fear of witches and witchcraft is a product of the modern age, not a relic of antiquity and the middle ages as is popularly imagined. Belief in (and fear of) witches was, primarily, a vestige from a pre-Christian history and the Church regarded it to be a superstition that was to be rejected.

This only really began to change with the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, which in part was a treatise intended to convince the Church in Western Europe that witchcraft was real, belief in witches was not heretical, etc. This is also why witch trials and witch hunts only really start to become a thing in the early modern period, the Salem Witch Trials weren't some weird vestige of the medieval past, but are an example of the views which had come to be more accepted only within a couple hundred years prior.

The modern "Christian" fear of witches and witchcraft is a modern innovation rooted in the pre-Christian Pagan superstitions of Northern Europe. The witches and the witchcraft which exists as some sort of bogeyman hiding in the shadows has always been a fiction which never existed except in the imagination of superstitious and paranoid people. The witch who flies on broom sticks and invites children into her gingerbread house doesn't exist and has never existed; and modern Christian people being terrified of imaginary bogeymen doesn't help anyone, it just makes Christians and Christianity look immensely foolish and lends itself to an irrational fear of people of other religious practices, and such irrational fear hinders the Christian's calling to serve and love their neighbor as Christ has commanded.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Armoured]

I mean it's a fair cop.

Only if you weigh the same as a duck

 

[Desk trauma]

If all religions other than Christianity, the right flavor too, leave one damned why be more concerned with the neo-pagans?

 

[ViaCrucis]

If all religions other than Christianity, the right flavor too, leave one damned why be more concerned with the neo-pagans?

The thing about irrational fear is that it's irrational.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[bhsmte]

I want to be clear. We're not allowed to physically harm anyone but there are people who do delve into black magic regardless of what sex they are or what name they have called themselves

Does black magic work, in your opinion?

 

[miknik5]

The thing about irrational fear is that it's irrational.

-CryptoLutheran

What does _______to do with CHRIST?
Nothing

If you see your "brother/sister" sin do you tell them their sin

Yet as it is written they will not repent of their black magic

 

[miknik5]

Two kingdoms are being built up
And two feasts are being prepared

 

[TLK Valentine]

Two kingdoms are being built up
And two feasts are being prepared

One regular, one gluten-free?

 

[bhsmte]

Two kingdoms are being built up
And two feasts are being prepared

A bit vague, can you elaborate?

Also, do you believe black magic works?

 

[miknik5]

One regular, one gluten-free?

What do you prefer?