Posted on 09/07/2009 9:37:37 PM PDT by Steelfish
Kooky, Sexy, Cool – The Rise Of The New Witches
[Pics in URL]
Forget Kabbalah – paganism is the hot new religion, and thousands of young British women are embracing it
By Eimear O'Hagan, 06/09/2009
Witches, covens, dancing around bonfires by the light of the moon and making offerings to goddesses - all the stuff of folklore and fairy tale, right? Wrong.
Welcome to the world of paganism. Walk into any high-street bookshop and, alongside the usual chick-lit best-sellers, there's another set of books flying off the shelves, all about how to find your inner witch. Yes, really.
Hot on the heels of best-selling vampire saga Twilight and new US drama Eastwick, it seems all things weird are wonderful.
Pagan culture has arrived in the 21st century - and young women are behind its growing popularity. Intrigued by its mystery and underlying sexuality, 20-somethings are converting in their droves, making paganism the UK's fastest growing religion.
According to the Office of National Statistics, there were 31,000 pagans living in the UK in 2001. Just eight years later, the Pagan Federation estimates there are now around 360,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsoftheworld.co.uk ...
from the country which birth wicca via a retired british civl servant who needed to con some women in order to obtain sexual favors.
Hurumphh.
I clicked on this thread hoping for a bunch of hot goth chicks.
The pics are in the URL- at least three of ‘em
Islam is not paganism.
Islam is not witchcraft.
Might want to read up before you commit further slander.
And as soon as someone in the real world gets a Harry Potter spell to work, I’m gonna be right there hollering as loud as you are.
Which is to say, I won’t be hollering.
Oh MAN! Not all that dancing nekkid again! I thought we wrung that out and hung it up to dry in the last one. I’m not participating. Don’t talk to me AFPhys! I mean it! Seriesly.
You seem to be missing the point in the last couple posts. Ah well, that’s the danger of saying anything at all: being misunderstood.
Shesh! You got me to read that whole silly thing lookin’ all over for things about the nekkid women dancin’... close to nothin there. You rascal!
All I have to say about stories like that one is:
“The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.”
-——from the 1937 study of G.K.Chesterton by Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet.
Do they wear sexy schoolgirl skirts like the witches in The Craft?
(All the other pics are kinda boring...)
You can’t fool me. I know you’re on Slings’s ping list too. I didn’t drag you in here. You can’t blame me. I’m innocent, and I’m not encouraging you at all. Really. ;-)
The reference to nekkid women dancing is in Slings’s ping post; “skyclad” is nekkid. AND there are pictures of the witches at the link in the article.
I agree. Chesterton was right.
Made you look. :-P
yea, you woould think so.(sarc)
Yeah, but I don't think you want to disturb her while she's pagan-ing or whatever.
She looks pretty serious!
yea i agree , lol..... :-)
The professor is grossly conflating "attending church" with practicing Christianity.
Far too many "Christians" also confuse attending church with being a Christian.
Unfortunately for the pew potatoes, there are another 167 hours in the week, that don't come in the hour between Sunday brunch and the Sunday afternoon game that they are dozing through a sermon.
Michelle Pfieffer can enchant me any time she wants.
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