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Hypothetical Questions, Questions No One Has Asked Yet, Responses To
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Q. Hey,
this is a Christian website! Why don't you say that up front instead
of trying to trick people?
A. It says it on the
first page, besides,I think it's pretty obvious it's a Christian
website if you read the pages. It never says otherwise, does it? Is
it supposed to have animated pictures of Bibles and quotations of
John 3:16 everywhere? That's not my style. Do I have to come out and
say it? OK then I will once again: It's a Christian website. Done.
Now, all Wiccans need to start telling people that OCRT is run by
Wiccans and atheists and has gotten financial aid from the Church of
Scientology instead of telling people it's a source of "unbiased
information".
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 different 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. How
can I email you?
A. You can't...not
anymore. I got tired of being blasted out of my chair everyday
from all the "open minded" non-Christian people when I went to read
my emails. I'm not here to be an object where bigots can vent their
hatred. Sorry they had to ruin it for everyone. If you need help,
try the "Links and Resources" page on this website, or a local
minister in your area. If you wanted to email me to wish me well,
thanks. Just keep me in your prayers. You can also read books by the
German Theologian Kurt Koch if you need further spirutal help.
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. Print out flyers with this
website address and give them out. Some people print out business
cards with this website's address and give them away. You can run
classified ads in newspapers and magazines. How abut an ad in the
National Enquirer astrology classified section? 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.
Besides, if they actually had the power to curse me with "magic",
they wouldn't cuss me with snotty emails.
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! Lots of people have tried that.
Q. What
do you mean people have tried to put curses on you??? Don't you know
Wiccans don't believe in curses??? Haven't you heard of the Three
Fold Law of Return??? That proves you know nothing!
A. Congratulations on
your election to "Spokesperson For All Wiccans Everywhere"! lol!
Seriously, some Wiccans DO believe in curses and hexes.
Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Huson has a whole chapter
about it. "Curses In Verses" is an entire book about it.
Also, Wiccans aren't the only people who read this website.
People into Santeria, Voodoo, Satanism, etc., also read it and most
certainly believe in curses.
Q. OK,
ok, maybe someone did claim to hex you, but they were
probably just kidding. if you knew anything then you would know
people claim to throw hexes just to scare people.
A. I do know people
claim to throw hexes just to scare people, in fact I did that too
when I was in the LHP. http://usminc.org/cursed.html If they
were trying to scare me it didn't work and only shows how such
people have no powers.
Q. OK,
maybe someone really tried to hex you. If you knew anything then you
would know it was Black Magic.
A. Um, OK, but it
isn't Black Magic supposed to work too???
Q. Do
you actually expect me to believe you were really a
Wiccan?
A. I was a solitary
Wiccan in my teens. When I found out Wicca was fake, I studied and
practiced other forms of the occult, including being a member of the
Temple of Set and AMORC. Statistics show 80% of the people who leave
their childhood faith return to it. If you don't want to believe it,
I'll get over it.
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?
I 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. Oh, and yes, Professor Ronald
Hutton is very qualified to write about Wicca. He's a history
Professor at Bristol who was allowed access to the original
documents of Gerald Gardner.
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. All they're doing is creating a romanticized
version of what they would like Paganism to have been, which isn't
historically accurate.
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. Sorry, you're not the boss of me. 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 Comparative
Morality 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. This websiteis equal time for all the occult websites and
Christian hating websites out there in TV Land.
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, open minded 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" (actually, you can't anymore). LOL! If what this website
says scares you, then make your own occult webpage (gee, there
aren't many of those out there. LOL!).
And despite what one
person claiming to be a sociologist said, this website isn't an
attempt at "brainwashing". If simply reading one website with
an opinion different from yours is enough to "brainwash" you, you
shouldn't read anything...magazines, books, cereal boxes, tubes of
toothpate, etc.
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
stuff like 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.
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. What
book do they use in human sacrifice rituals? (Believe it or not,
I've been asked this quite a few times)
A. Since human
sacrifices are carried out by psychotics, it could be any book they
choose.
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.
Besides, many of the arguments against Satanism on the "Truth About
Satanism" page apply to theistic Satanism as well.
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. 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). Here's an example of one of those types: http://jesus-is-savior.com/ If you read anything on that page, you'll see
everything is a sin, and everyone is going to Hell, (including Jack
Chick of all people even though he thinks exactly like that guy).
The pages are dark and it has scary music. That guy's vision of
Christianity is dark and scary. My vision of Christianity is one
where people can think, and I have a sense of humor about things.
Q.
Isn't masturbation a sin? That's why I could never be a Christian.
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. 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 and many minor
religions as well.
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, right?
A. 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, Unitarians,
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.
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