I wonder what level his character in WoW is.

Yeah, He comes off that way just a bit. In all fairness though, I read the part of the 'article' they allowed you to see for free and it is meaningless tripe. For the love of [diety of choice], adding Harry Potter to your list of researched topics about "witchcraft" is about like using Godzilla movies to make a scientific argument about dinosaurs.

Warlock? So he breaks promises?

He probably went with destruction and not the demonology tree.

Golden_Eternity: Warlock? So he breaks promises?

This.

Weaver95: He probably went with destruction and not the demonology tree.

Aff is the only way to go.

Subby fails ... warlocks are not wiccan.
No wiccan would use the term warlock except in a joke or an insult.

Besides, everyone knows Gnomes make better warlocks than Humans.

Golden_Eternity: Warlock? So he breaks promises?

Thread over. Winner above.

Nogrhi: Yeah, He comes off that way just a bit. In all fairness though, I read the part of the 'article' they allowed you to see for free and it is meaningless tripe. For the love of [diety of choice], adding Harry Potter to your list of researched topics about "witchcraft" is about like using Godzilla movies to make a scientific argument about dinosaurs.

This is World Net Daily - the same folks who wrote hard hitting articles about Soy turning out kids gay.

Satanism is a "rebellion" against Christian belief structures, whatever denomination one should wish to choose. Wicca, on the other hand, is no such "rebellion."

For a Wiccan, he doesn't seem to know many Wiccans.

He cast his DoT's on the World Net Daily editorial staff.

Facetious_Speciest: For a Wiccan, he doesn't seem to know many Wiccans.

There are rebellious wiccans??

Hello, my name is:
Asshat, D.Thaum.

FTFA: "Witchcraft, sorcery, magic and idol worship have been around since the earliest days of man," said WND Editor Joseph Farah. "They do, indeed, pre-date Christianity as we know it today - just as their practitioners like to point out with pride. But they do not pre-date the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - the one who created the universe."

Kinda goes without saying there, Joe. Unless these practices originated in a parallel universe that God totally copied when he made this one.

He's the one on the far right.

Uzzah: Unless these practices originated in a parallel universe that God totally copied when he made this one.

Don't see why He wouldn't have invented copy & paste before starting on multiple universes. I mean, if MS can do it, so can God, right?

casts seventh level hex of vex

for some reason that made me think of



You remind me of the baby
What baby? the baby with the power
What power? power of voodoo
Who do? you do
Do what? remind me of the baby

Uzzah: Kinda goes without saying there, Joe. Unless these practices originated in a parallel universe that God totally copied when he made this one.

Why doesn't WND explain why they predate any record of Sky Ghost and also how they came from Adam and Eve and 'forgot' about Gawd?

But they do not pre-date the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - the one who created the universe.

Um...actually, most of them probably do. The god of Abraham used to be a minor deity in the Semitic pantheon, and certainly no one believed he created the entire earth until his cult gained power amongst the Jews and proclaimed him the only god worth worshipping. It's all PR from there.

Facetious_Speciest: Satanism is a "rebellion" against Christian belief structures, whatever denomination one should wish to choose. Wicca, on the other hand, is no such "rebellion."

For a Wiccan, he doesn't seem to know many Wiccans.

For a Wiccan, he doesn't seem to know many Satanists either. It has almost nothing to do with Christin belief. It's pretty much just a bunch of fancy ways of saying "do whatever the hell you want" with a bunch of bullshiat "spells" sprinkled on that have about as much of an effect as prayer.

When the day's news is about "witches," many Americans reflexively conjure up images of ugly, wicked hags from stories like "Snow White" and "The Wizard of Oz" - or more recently, the smiling "good witches" of Harry Potter books and films. But none of these fictional fantasies has anything to do with the real thing.



Disapproves of your shenanigans. What, Harry Potter started the whole "good witch" thing?

Wiccans (or at least most Pagans, since few "witches" are genuine Gardnerian Wiccans) believe in an anthropomorphized nature goddess figure and the incorporation of European pagan gods and demigods into religious rituals.

Christians believe that God sent himself to earth to die for humanity so he could forgive them, and that bread and wine must be consumed as (metaphor/literal) his body and blood to respect that sacrifice. Those who don't are condemned to eternal torture due to the sins committed by the first two human beings six hundred years ago.

...I'm sorry, which group's supposed to be crazy?

All I could think of when reading his letter was Dr. Morpheus from "Venture Bros." What a pompous ass.

/Wiccan

Uzzah: FTFA: "Witchcraft, sorcery, magic and idol worship have been around since the earliest days of man," said WND Editor Joseph Farah. "They do, indeed, pre-date Christianity as we know it today - just as their practitioners like to point out with pride. But they do not pre-date the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - the one who created the universe."

Kinda goes without saying there, Joe. Unless these practices originated in a parallel universe that God totally copied when he made this one.



Nope, the Godess came first.

Bloody William

Very nicely done.

Max Edison: All I could think of when reading his letter was Dr. Morpheus from "Venture Bros." What a pompous ass.

/Wiccan

Dude, why are you hating on Dr. O? He's freaking awesome.

And I think he's more of a Satanist. I mean... his master is the devil (voiced by the always freaking awesome H. Jon Benjamin, who was also the devil in Lucy the Daughter of the Devil and Coach McGuirk).

Regardless, sometimes I simply like talking like him. Which usually means SHOUTING THE SECOND HALF OF MY SENTENCES DRAMATICALLY!

LOL.

He IS awesome, as satire.

This writer doesn't understand that he's made himself into a cartoon.

Bloody William: Regardless, sometimes I simply like talking like him. Which usually means SHOUTING THE SECOND HALF OF MY SENTENCES DRAMATICALLY!

Are you one of those people who says "LOL" in real life situations, too?

Shaggy_C: Bloody William: Regardless, sometimes I simply like talking like him. Which usually means SHOUTING THE SECOND HALF OF MY SENTENCES DRAMATICALLY!

Are you one of those people who says "LOL" in real life situations, too?

Um, no. I'm a craven geek, not a ridiculous twat.

Nerf warlocks. Probably SL/SL anyway, noob build of choice.

I wonder if the writer of this is that creepy guy I always see hanging around the sword place at the Renaissance festival every time

Shaggy_C: He's the one on the far right.

Dude, if Astaroth was angry with me, I'd apologize and hope he didn't impregnate my wife, rip out the fetus, and feed it to me.

/"Don't scream, worms!"
//However, Cervantes FTW!

Waste of a nice high level spell that. The "Glance of Disdain" or the "Guffaw of Derision" would have worked just as well unless Wingnut Daily has somehow managed to obtain the fabled "Cloak of Credibilty"

/ Puts on Cloak and Boots of Elvenkind and sneaks back to the '80s

Nogrhi: Yeah, He comes off that way just a bit. In all fairness though, I read the part of the 'article' they allowed you to see for free and it is meaningless tripe. For the love of [diety of choice], adding Harry Potter to your list of researched topics about "witchcraft" is about like using Godzilla movies to make a scientific argument about dinosaurs.

Well, to be fair, Harry Potter is at least as faithful to the mythological source material as Wiccanism.

Witchcraft is even more fictional than most religious stuff-- it's pure delusion instead of delusion mixed with allegory and low-level perception regarding how the world works. And Wiccanism (as opposed to traditional witchcraft nonsense) was founded by people who purposefully selected the title 'witch' at its founding in the 1950s in order to attempt a claim that they had been persecuted at some point. While this is purely personal opinion on my part, I think that a persecution complex that pathological is something of a hit to credibility.

What I'm saying here is that if using Harry Potter to describe witchcraft is using Godzilla to argue dinosaurs, then using Wiccanism to describe witchcraft is like arguing dinosaurs using an 1850s compliation of the tales of brother rabbit.

//Not sure why that set me off. Oh, well, I regret nothing.

I cast Magic Missile at the Darkness!

Also, most of the "witchcraft" coming out of europe stemmed from distorted tales of the Kabbalists' practices and Jewish mysticism in general. So not only does that make the "they did not exist before the god of Abraham" argument kind of silly, it also gives us history-reading folks another reason to poke fun at the Wiccans, who for some reason seem to think it refers to the myths of the northern european pagans.

Bloody William Quote 2008-01-04 01:33:14 PM
Wiccans (or at least most Pagans, since few "witches" are genuine Gardnerian Wiccans) believe in an anthropomorphized nature goddess figure and the incorporation of European pagan gods and demigods into religious rituals.

Christians believe that God sent himself to earth to die for humanity so he could forgive them, and that bread and wine must be consumed as (metaphor/literal) his body and blood to respect that sacrifice. Those who don't are condemned to eternal torture due to the sins committed by the first two human beings six hundred years ago.

...I'm sorry, which group's supposed to be crazy?

C'mon, the guy is an ILLUMINATUS of ISIS and Osiris, an ADEPT of Khufu, a HIGH GUARDIAN of ANUBIS, a 10=1 Arch Mage Ipsissimus and an Initiate of A.M.O.S.K.. Can warlock be that unimaginable?

Nightmaretony: Bloody William Quote 2008-01-04 01:33:14 PM
Wiccans (or at least most Pagans, since few "witches" are genuine Gardnerian Wiccans) believe in an anthropomorphized nature goddess figure and the incorporation of European pagan gods and demigods into religious rituals.

Christians believe that God sent himself to earth to die for humanity so he could forgive them, and that bread and wine must be consumed as (metaphor/literal) his body and blood to respect that sacrifice. Those who don't are condemned to eternal torture due to the sins committed by the first two human beings six hundred years ago.

...I'm sorry, which group's supposed to be crazy?

... I think that guy played at my Bar Mitzvah.

World Net Daily full of fail? Imp-possible.

/I'm so sorry
//No I'm not
///DNRTFA

Approves.

smeegle: Nope, the Godess came first.

See, this disproves your religion. I mean, when has the women ever come first?