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[Grakelin]

There are very few people who associate Wicca with Witchcraft who are not either wiccans themselves or intentionally making the connection to be annoying.

This statement doesn't even make sense.

I can't even begin.

[G-Flex]

I think he's saying that people don't correlate the concepts unless they're either Wiccans reappropriating the term "witchcraft", or people who call them "witches" in a derogatory manner.

[Max White]

MSN has an article about how Americans believe in silly things, and lists 'witches' as a silly thing to believe in. I'm sure my Wiccan neighbors appreciate being considered fictional constructs of superstition. I wonder if druids are also fictional constructs, because I'm sure my college roommate would love to hear that.

Also hard science degrees and nature worship seem like an odd combination. I should have asked him about that.

Maybe the auther of this article is refering to witches as described by the church in the dark ages?

[G-Flex]

That was my interpretation. You know, the kind from that one Jack Chick tract about Dungeons & Dragons.

[Grakelin]

This thread reminds me of the fact that I know who Willfor is in real life.

[ETV]

Wiccans, Druids and other newage religeons do seem quite silly to me actualy. All the more if they have a degree in science, as that would mean they have a lot of contradictionary convictions.

I think a Wiccan scientist is quite appropriate.

Take a light bulb back to the days electricity wasn't known of, and demonstrate it, the only thing people could describe it as would be magic and impossible.

The same would apply to some obscure space age technology being presented before we had developed it; that's magic!

[Dwarf]

Well, the problem I have with Wiccans is that they're some kind of batshit hippy new-age perversion of actual pagan beliefs, but that's just me.

[Nikov]

MSN has an article about how Americans believe in silly things, and lists 'witches' as a silly thing to believe in. I'm sure my Wiccan neighbors appreciate being considered fictional constructs of superstition. I wonder if druids are also fictional constructs, because I'm sure my college roommate would love to hear that.

Also hard science degrees and nature worship seem like an odd combination. I should have asked him about that.

Maybe the auther of this article is refering to witches as described by the church in the dark ages?

That would make the article the epitome of obsolensence. In any case, this suggestion that the respondees to the poll were superstitious rednecks believing in old hags and cauldrons instead of people, say, who's heard of Wicca from their old hippie friend in the 60's... well it is interesting to say the least, but entirely conjecture.

[DJ]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if a significant percentage of rednecks believed in old hags with cauldrons.

[Nikov]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if a significant percentage of Bosnians beleived in stereotypes.

Touche. And now for a disarming smiley face. 

[DJ]

Don't be so intolerant, my belief in stereotypes has more grounding in reality than Young Earth Creationism or whatever it is that you Americans believe in.

[Jackrabbit]

You're right Nikov, your jokes do attract angry reactions more than most, even when they're obvious. It's starting to get strange.

Of course, DJ could be joking too but if he is he's being subtler about it. If he is, then I knew that, I was just joking!

[Aqizzar]

That would make the article the epitome of obsolensence. In any case, this suggestion that the respondees to the poll were superstitious rednecks believing in old hags and cauldrons instead of people, say, who's heard of Wicca from their old hippie friend in the 60's... well it is interesting to say the least, but entirely conjecture.

It can't be that hard to believe.  Speaking as someone who knew (I can't bring myself to say "hung out with") a couple of the stereotypical black-notebook Hot Topic "Wiccans" in high school, and saw how people reacted to them; very few people have ever heard of actual Wiccans, and even fewer know what it means or that there even is a distinction to honest modern druids.  I know that could be hard to grasp by somebody married to one, but it really is a bizarre and foreign anomaly to most people; a weird cult thing abnormal people get into to make themselves feel superior, like Scientology or Kabbalah but for outcast teenagers.  This has nothing to do with actual Wiccans, it's what most of the very few people who've heard the term more than once remember.

As for the study about people believing witches are real, a significant portion of Americans think honest to God, tangible angels walk amongst us.  Who knows what the witch people actually think they're referring to.  I've met more than a couple people who swear haunted house attractions at theme parks are the Devil's work, because glorifying the damned attracts evil.

[DJ]

Of course, DJ could be joking too but if he is he's being subtler about it. If he is, then I knew that, I was just joking!

I just proclaimed that stereotyping is my religion, do I seriously need sarcasm tags with that?

[Jackrabbit]

Of course, DJ could be joking too but if he is he's being subtler about it. If he is, then I knew that, I was just joking!

I just proclaimed that stereotyping is my religion, do I seriously need sarcasm tags with that?

Oh, I thought you just believed most stereotypes were accurate. Or something. The point stands even without you actually being annoyed, it's just a non-sequiter now, so that's all right.

That would make the article the epitome of obsolensence. In any case, this suggestion that the respondees to the poll were superstitious rednecks believing in old hags and cauldrons instead of people, say, who's heard of Wicca from their old hippie friend in the 60's... well it is interesting to say the least, but entirely conjecture.

It can't be that hard to believe.  Speaking as someone who knew (I can't bring myself to say "hung out with") a couple of the stereotypical black-notebook Hot Topic "Wiccans" in high school, and saw how people reacted to them; very few people have ever heard of actual Wiccans, and even fewer know what it means or that there even is a distinction to honest modern druids.  I know that could be hard to grasp by somebody married to one, but it really is a bizarre and foreign anomaly to most people; a weird cult thing abnormal people get into to make themselves feel superior, like Scientology or Kabbalah but for outcast teenagers.  This has nothing to do with actual Wiccans, it's what most of the very few people who've heard the term more than once remember.

As for the study about people believing witches are real, a significant portion of Americans think honest to God, tangible angels walk amongst us.  Who knows what the witch people actually think they're referring to.  I've met more than a couple people who swear haunted house attractions at theme parks are the Devil's work, because glorifying the damned attracts evil.

Well, I hear witches feature prominently in American politics.