Frequently Asked
Questions, Anticipated Questions, Hypothetical Questions, Questions No One Has
Asked Yet, Responses To Statements, etc.
Q. I’m a Christian.
If I ever meet someone that is a Wiccan, Satanist, Rosicrucian, or other
type of occultist, how should I treat them?
A. Treat them as
you would anyone else.
Q. There’s a weird
kid at my school that no one likes that’s a Wiccan (or Satanist, etc.). Is it OK
to beat him up? [NOTE: No one's asked this yet]
A. Absolutely not!
The reason young people get into the occult is a craving for power. This person
probably feels lonely and alienated, and has probably had a bad experience with
Christians and/or Christianity. It’s almost certain they have a negative view of
Christians/Christianity at any rate. What you should do is befriend them, find
out if they’re anything you can do for them or help them in some way. They will
probably be suspicious of your motives at first. In time they may gain your
trust. Under no circumstances should you ever instigate violence against someone
solely because they are of another religion or are thought of as
“weird”.
Q. Great website!
How can I help?
A. Thanks! By
making people aware of this website. You can run ads on Google Adsense, or
Stumbleupon.com, or something similar. You can run classified ads in newspapers
and magazines. You can mention it in Yahoo Answers, an online forum of NG. No
spamming though.
Q. Aren’t you afraid
someone’s going to put a curse on you? I can’t help but picture little demons
flying around your head with little pitchforks.
A. Some have told
me they've put curses on me. No one will succeed because I have
Jesus.
Q. What book do
they use in human sacrifice rituals?
A. Since human sacrifices are carried out by psychotics, it could
be any book they choose
Q. "I am outraged
by this website! How dare you slander famous people! How can you tell these
lies? Why, you should...blah, blah, blah, rant, rant, rant, rant, dweeb, dweeb,
dweeb...!"
A. I wouldn't put
anything on this website I thought was wrong, misleading, or a lie. I've done my
research, and if you do some research, you'll see I'm right. Some people have
differnet perspectives than I do. Some can see Aleister Crowley as a demigod, I
see him as a psychotic, drunk, and junkie, who died in a flophouse. If you don't
agree with my opinion, that's unfortunate but I'll get over it. In this
country we have freedom of religion and freedom of speech. If you can't
deal with that, oh well.
Q. There’s a Wiccan
that insists on praying with our Christian prayer group that meets outside the
school each morning. She wants to “pray to the goddess” (or Cernunnos, etc).
What should we do?
A. Explain to her,
very politely, that your prayer group is for members of the Christian faith
only, just as Christians are not allowed to pray to Jesus during a Wiccan
Sabbat. Explain to her Muslims would not allow her to pray to “the goddess”
during one of their prayer times, neither would Jews allow her to pray at a
synagogue, etc. Invite her to church or a revival or refer her to a pastor,
etc., to find out more about your faith. Some occultists enjoy being
confrontational, and their actual goal may be to try to get the school to shut
your prayer circle down. If she still persists, keep declining and ask her to
form her own Wiccan prayer circle.
Q. Hey, I'm the
Wiccan that wants to be in that prayer group! Don't I have a right to freedom of
religion?
A. Of course.
Freedom of religion means that people are free to practice what ever religion
they want and not feel obligated to practice other religions. The Christians in
the prayer group above aren't universalists, therefore they shouldn't have to
feel obligated to let people of other faiths in. You wouldn't want a bunch of
Christians holding a Bible class at one of your sabbats, would you? Didn't think
so. Freedom of religion means being able to exclude others who don't share
similar beliefs. Moral of the story: don't be a pest, no matter what religion
you are.
Q. Isn’t
Wicca
thousands of years old?
A. No, it isn’t. See The Olde Religion
page for details. There simply was
no Wicca before Gerald Gardner created it! Consult Triumph of The Moon
by Professor Ronald Hutton before you email me. Thanks.
Q. But Paganism
came before Christianity, right?
A. Yes, but Neopagan groups do not have a direct connection to the
Pagan religions and cults of the past.
Q. This website
seems slanted against every religion but the Judeo-Christian religion. Can't you
just accept all religions?
A. If you expect me to accept all religions as being true, then
that means you want me to be a universalist. I'm not a universalist (not
anymore!). Everyone believes their religious belief is the most correct
(including universalists!) or else they wouldn't believe that way. Again, it's the freedom of religion/freedom of speech thing. Once
you accept the fact I have rights under the Constitution of the United States of
America...well, you'll probably still want me to go away anyway, but it isn't
going to happen.I should also point out on the Moral Compass page that I point out that
the morals of most occultists are out of step with the world's major
religions.
Q. This website is
biased! You need to give Wiccans (or Satanists, Rosicrucians, etc. ) equal time!
[Yes, people have actually had the gaul to tell me this!]
A. Oh, OK. As soon as every occult website out there gives equal
time to Christians. Once again - -freedom of
religion/freedom of speech.
Q. But don't you
think this website is intolerant and bigoted, you hate filled xtian???
AAARRGHHH!!!!! DIE! DIE!
A. First, wipe the
foam off your mouth, you tolerant intellectual, you! The answer is no. In the
country I live (USA), we have freedom of religion and freedom of speech
guaranteed by the Constitution. We tolerate different ideas (which is why you
find more Wiccans, Satanists, Rosicrucians, and garden variety occultists here
than anywhere else!). If you can't deal with someone having beliefs different
than yours and not being afraid to state them...TOUGH! No one's forcing you to
change your mind...and you won't change my mind, thanks for not emailing me to
try to make me see the "error of my ways". LOL! If what this website says scares
you, make your own occult webpage (gee, there aren't many of those out there.
LOL!).
Q. Why don't you do some more research, then
you'll see you're wrong?
A. All the years I wasted
in the occult WAS my research. And in fact I do still do research on the occult,
I just do it from a different angle now. I don't have to agree with something to
understand it!
Q. Look, magic
isn't about casting spells and making mircales happen. Magick is a
religion.
A. All you've done is change the definition of magic to suit your
aims. Read any book on the occult written before Eliphas Levi, and you'll see
it's about finding buired treasure or curing warts on a cow. It's not a
religion, and never was (until about the 19th century when people started such
nonsensical ideas).
Q. Isn't
masturbation a sin?
A. Some
people think that Genesis 38 prohibits masturbation, but it does not. God's
displeasure with Onan in Genesis 38 is based on Onan's disobedience to the old
law which required him to father a child by his dead brother's wife. It has
nothing to do with masturbation. Emission of semen, however, was unclean under
the law, and a man needed to make an offering for it. (See Leviticus
15.) It was a minor offense, comparable to accidentally soiling your
undergarments. However, the law regarding clean and unclean things was repealed
by God in Peter's vision, as described in Acts 10. So emission of semen became
clean theoretically, just as eating of pork became clean. This idea is confirmed
by Romans 14:14, where Paul says, "I know and am persuaded in the Lord that
nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it is
unclean." Masturbation isn't listed anywhere as an "abomination," or anywhere
among the various lists of prohibited sexual practices. (See Leviticus 18.)
Adultery is prohibited; rape is prohibited; incest is prohibited; homosexual sex
is prohibited; sex with animals is prohibited, (and all these acts are banned in
all the other religions of the world as well). But masturbation is not even
mentioned. Solo masturbation without use of pornography isn't a sin.
Q. I hate this
website! I’m going to curse it and shut it down! Doesn’t that scare
you?
A. Nope. Go for it!
I dare you! WOO HOO!
Q. Didn’t an ancient goddess worshiping matriarchy exist?
A. No. See the Wymyn’s page for details. And no, it didn't exist
"before the patriarchy took over." Read Cynthia Eller's The Myth of
Matriarchal Prehistory.
Q. Doesn’t the word
“witch” really mean “wise one”? Weren’t witches just midwives and
healers?
A. No. It has a nefarious meaning in every language on earth. See
the Meaning page for details.
Q. Is a male Wiccan
a Warlock?
A. Male Wiccans seldom call themselves warlocks. They claim this because
Warlock has a negative meaning (it's a Scottish word meaning "oath breaker" and
'traitor" as well as sorcerer).They usually call themselves witch or wizard.
Oddly enough, Wiccans denounce the term Warlock, but defend the word witch
(unsuccessfully), even though the equivalent to the word "witch" has a negative
meaning in every language on earth. Go figure.
Q. I see many
things I don't agree with. Can I email you and tell you how you're wrong (thus
proving my intellectual superiority, at least in my own mind)?
A. Once again,
while many occultist seem to enjoy this whole "one man upmanship" thing, (just
read any NG about any occult subject if you don't believe me) it's something
most people try to avoid. Sure, but I don't argue with people back and forth
through emails. You'll get one reply, that's it. Insulting emails just get a
"LOL!" as a reply. Cuss words don't shock me. Some of you just need a
hobby.
Q. Don't you know
there's more forms of Satanism than LaVeyian Satanism?
A. Yes, but
in America and most of the Western world, it's the template from which most
forms are drawn. There really wasn't such a thing as "atheistic Satanism" until LaVey came along.
Q. Do Satanists
worship/believe in the Devil.
A. Some do,
although the so-called "atheistic Satanists" would have you think they're the
only Satanists out there. The Zarabandas of Brazil for instance most certainly
believe they worship Satan in the form of Exu', and they view him as being in
opposition to the Christian God.
Q. What about
William Shnoebellen, Mike Warneke, Jesse LaVey, Alberto Rivera, and John
Todd/Lance Collins?
A. They're
all fakes. They're are always people who seek attention and/or money. See the Is
Wicca Satanism? page for more details.
Q. So how are you
any different?
A. Because I'm not
a fake. I don't claim to be part of some multi-generational conspiracy or cult
going back to Nimrod, that has billions of dollars at their disposal. My occult
"career" was quite boring and uneventful. I don't talk about "SRA", or
"Backwards masking" as the fakes do. I'm not doing it for money or attention. In
fact, if you notice my name isn't even mentioned once on the website! Fakes
never want to have anything to do with me, since they know I'm the real thing. I
can always spot them, because they say things like "Once I levitated a car and
accidentally dropped it on someone's head and they died. After that I left Wicca
(or Satanism, Voodoo, etc.)" LOL! Yeah, sure. Or they'll say something like "I
was entering the 9th level of Satanism, when I was told I'd have to renounce
Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I knew then it was wrong". Right. I can also tell
if someone's a fake by the number of "awards" they try to plaster their website
with, showing they crave attention. There's also usually a story about drug
addiction thrown in somewhere too.
Q. You don't seem
any different than a typical fundementalist to me.
A. I guess in that case you're so prejudiced that you lump all
Christians together. This website presents a "thinking person's" Christianity,
not the "turn or burn" scare tactics of fundies (not that I have anything
against fundies).
Q.Is homosexuality
a sin?
A. According to the
Christian religion, yes. The argument ender is Jude 7. It is also a considered a
sin in Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Sihkism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and
Hinduism.
Q. Aren't you just
saying that because you hate gays?
A. No. I don't hate
gays at all. Ask my friend who's gay and he'll tell you. I don't hate people or
think I'm better than someone because they're doing things my religion forbids.
If I simply accepted the parts of my religion that were easy and rejected
the "politically incorrect" ones, then I wouldn't be taking it seriously.
Q. But they're born that way and they can't help
themselves.
My
friend just mentioned was abused as a child, including being molested. In
fact, all of his friends seem to have been abused as children, and I don't think
it's a coincidence. I don't think gays are
born that way, I think they are conditioned into being that way. Here's a quote to back it up:
"Dr. Robert L.
Spitzer was the psychiatrist who led the charge to remove homosexuality as a
disorder from the psychiatric manual in 1973. Spitzer is a self identified
secular humanist atheist Jew who has been consistent in his support of gay
rights. Briefly, Spitzer conducted a study of 200 people who reported that they
had changed from homosexual to heterosexual. Spitzer found that 66% of the men
and 44% of the women who had participated in therapy to change their homosexual
orientation had arrived at what he called 'good heterosexual functioning.'
Additionally, 89% of the men and 95% of the women reported that they were
bothered slightly or not at all, by unwanted homosexual feelings. In Spitzer's
own words: "Like most psychiatrists I thought that homosexual behavior could be
resisted, but sexual orientation could not be changed. I now believe that's
untrue-some people can and do change.' Spitzer concluded that the changes
occurred not just in behavior but in core features of sexual
orientation."Robert L. Spitzer, "Prominent
Psychiatrist Announces New Study Results-Some Gays Can Change (Encino,
California: National Association For Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, May
9, 2001); Robert L. Spitzer, "Can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual
orientation? 200 Participants reporting a change from homosexual to heterosexual
orientation," Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (2003), 403-417.
Q. Is interracial
marriage a sin?
A. No, in fact the
Bible permits it. Moses married an Ethiopian (Numbers 12:1). Some interpret this
to mean he married a Saudi Arabian or Lybian, but the word "Ethiopian" was used
in ancient times to denote anyone who had dark skin, not just people from
Ethiopia. An Arabian or Lybian wouldn't have been any darker than an Israelite,
and there would have been no call for people to make fun of her dark skin, as
was the case with Moses' wife. God punished the people who made fun of Moses and
his dark skinned wife, and this shows God approves of interracial marriage. The
verses in the Bible instructing Israelites not to marry foreigners are about not
polluting Judaism with idol worship. They don't have anything to do with race.
Q. I think my house
is haunted, for real. What should I do?
A. First, you
eliminate the natural explanations. Is anyone in the house on drugs? Seriously,
are they? I've known quite a few pot smokers who had a "ghost" in their house.
Stop taking drugs, and the ghosts will go away. Does the ghost only seem
to bother certain people? A child who wants attetion? An elderly person in the
first stages of alzheimers? Is there a source of running water nearby? A noisy
aquarium pump turned out to be the "ghost" in one house I know
of. If the occurences can't be eliminated by natural explanations, then
you should call in a minister to bless the house. DO NOT call anyone with an
occult or New Age background, because it won't do any good, and will probably
make your situation much worse. Coventer's Prison in England had a problem with
visitors being attacked by unseen forces in the late 1990's. They called in a
spiritualist "minister" (i.e., a medium) to exorcise the place. The medium
pronounced the place cleared, but of course it didn't work. He died a few days
later, and the occurences were worse than ever. They finally closed the site to
visitors, because of the unexplained marks and cuts visitors kept getting! I
also know of someone who thought they had ghosts in their home and called in
some Wiccans to do a "cleansing ritual". The situation only got worse.
Don't get occultists involved. No Wiccans, Voodooists, Santerios, Canduras,
"white witches", ceremonial magicians, Rosicrucians, Theosophists, Cabalists,
spiritualists, psychics, "spiritual advisors", or anything like that. These
people think they know a lot, they'll act like they do, but they don't (I'm not
being mean, I'm being honest).
Get a Christian minister from a Bible believing church (no Mormons, JW's
Unity, or other cults). Chances are there is one close by. If they don't want to
handle it for some reason, call someone else. Get out a phone book if you have
to. It won't be hard to find someone who can help
you.
BEFORE EMAILING HERE ARE SOME OTHER THINGS TO NOTE:
I don't need
emails that try to tell me what Wicca is "really" about, or what your particular
brand of Wicca teaches. I was a soliatry Wiccan (my own particular brand).
Trying to tell me about Wicca as though I've never heard of it is basically
talking down to me. I already know what it is, thanks for being rude. I also
what Satanism is, Thelma, the Golden Dawn, and all the rest.
You're also not
going to change my mind with emails telling me I'm wrong and all religions are
true, or whatever. Save yourself an email since it's a waste of time, mine and
yours (especially mine).
You're also wasting
my time with emails saying things like "Little Johhny Smith wasn't a Satanic
killer. He just happened to stumble across a dead body and accidentally got his
DNA on it, and the cops found a bunch of occult books and a skull at his house.
Since he had a few run ins with the law in the past, they railroaded him".
I get quite a few letters and emails like this from time to time about
people listed on the crime page (possibly from the convicts themselves!).
Yes, yes, everyone in prison is innocent, just ask a prisoner. Got it. Save your
time sending me an email about it. If the case gets overturned, email me and I
will mention it.
