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Questions, Questions No One Has Asked Yet, Responses To Statements, etc. 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. 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 and send me 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 website is 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. 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". Yeah, 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 [mind you, this is how HE describes himself] '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. Some of the materials on this web site are copyrighted by others, and are made available here for non-profit educational purposes such as teaching, scholarship, and research. 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