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I don't think of wiccans as practicing a real religion. I think it is nothing more than pop culture. There is no century by century link to these practices. The wiccan “religion” was formed from bits and pieces of a recreated religion that has not been practiced for thousands of years. The wiccan belief is something very recent, not something that is ancient. I can remember when wiccanism came on the scene- that was in the seventies.

In the late sixties there was a media blitz of occult subjects such as astrology, witchcraft, reincarnation etc. Before this time it was not common to see these things. The only thing I remember about witchcraft before this period was in the movie “Bell, Book and Candle” which came out about 1958.

I am 62 years old so I remember things going back to the fifties, sixties and seventies. The decade of the sixties was the decade that saw American culture flip. You really have to be old enough to remember those decades to see how much our culture changed and to see how rapidly it changed and how the media and Hollywood pushed all the aspects of the “youth culture” on America's young people.

The post-sixties world brought us all sorts of cults and unconventional beliefs. Today there are people who even think of themselves as vampires. There are vampire weddings. How nutty is that!

I know that everybody has a right to believe whatever they want, but does that mean that they have to be accommodated in an official way?

[In the late sixties there was a media blitz of occult subjects such as astrology, witchcraft, reincarnation etc]

Same thing happened back in the “roaring” 20’s. The obsession with Egyptian/oriental mysticism is self-evident in the stonework of cemetery crypts and headstones dating from that period.

What we have today is pretty much the same moral climate that existed leading up to 1929.

God is dead, therefore we are as gods and can make up our own rules.