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And how does this dictate or involve policy?
Dwight Stewart wrote: "N2EY" wrote: Perhaps something really bad would have happened, but the spell prevented it. Who can ever say? The specific spell requested could only have resulted in something bad. Who determines what is a "legitimate" religion and what isn't? Who *can* determine such a thing (other than God?) You just love to ask the "who determines" question, don't you? Especially when the answer is bloody obvious - like with most other things, people do. People either decide it's a legitimate religion or not. A small, fringe, group of supposed believers don't make a religion legitimate (Hale-Bop's Heaven's Gate cult, for example), especially when the vast majority believe it's a load of crap (and I do suspect the vast majority don't really believe wiccas can actually cast spells, charms, and so on). Why not? Already answered in the paragraph you quoted (the paragraph taken as a whole, not sliced up into individual sentences). Couldn't the same be said of almost all religions now in existence? Most are based on a book or series of books written hundreds or thousands of years ago. (snip) However, the practices of today's wiccas seem mostly made up from images and stories in FICTIONAL movies, television, and books, not religious material and literature written by those who practice that religion. In other words, since so little is known of the old pagan religions, wiccas simply 'borrowed' things like black robes, symbols, supposed spells, and so on, from relatively modern day fiction. Would you say the same thing about the power of prayer, miracles, transubstantiation, and other central beliefs of modern Christianity? It is one thing to pray for assistance from a God and quite another to actually claim to have personal powers to cast spells, charms, and so on. I would ask for similar proof from anyone, in any religion, who claimed to have such powers (any powers). Fine - but then why discriminate between "legitimate" and "illegitimate" religions? Words alone do not discriminate, Jim. Nobody has been deprived of anything by my words. Dwight Stewart (W5NET) http://www.qsl.net/w5net/ |
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