Thursday, July 17, 2008

More Witchcraft 101:



"Witchcraft is ... Catholicism emptied of Christ and stood on its head"




Adapted from this source: Witchcraft 101 by Ms. Michelle Arnold, "This Rock" July/August 2008.

"Witchcraft is an inversion of Catholicism.

"Observers of witchcraft have claimed that it is remarkably similar to Catholicism.

"Catholic journalist and medievalist Sandra Miesel called it Catholicism without Christ ('The Witches Next Door', Crisis, June 2002).

"Writer and editor Charlotte Allen noted that Practicing Wicca is a way to have Christianity without, well, the burdens of Christianity ('The Scholars and the Goddess,' The Atlantic, January 2001).

"But to say that witchcraft has uncanny similarities to Catholicism is to understate the matter.

"Witchcraft is an inversion of Catholicism: Catholicism emptied of Christ and stood on its head.

"This is most readily seen in witchcraft's approach to authority."

Witchcraft's approach to authority ...


"In his book Rome Sweet Home, Scott Hahn compares authority in the Church to a hierarchical pyramid with the pope at the top, with all of the members, including the pope, reaching upward toward God (46 - 47).

"With its antipathy to authority and its reach inward to the self and downward to preternatural spirits, witchcraft could also be illustrated with a triangle -- every adherent poised at the top as his own authority and pointed down in the sort of Lower Command structure envisioned by Lewis's Screwtape."




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