From John C Wright, who knows that you should not suffer a witch to live.
The movement is perfectly content to use Christian notions like compassion for the poor, for example, when it allows the state to overstep its traditional role, and take on the charitable acts which once had been the purview of the Church, and, by making them entitlements rather than charitable, to decrease the charity and goodwill in the world.
The movement is opposed to marriage in its every aspect and dimension, except when it comes to homosexual unions, whereupon the full panoply of Christian rites is demanded, and Christians are the preferred persons to bake the cakes, rent the halls, an take the wedding photos. There is no glee and no glory for the movement to hire Buddhists or Jews to do these things.
The inability of the political Right to halt any of these long, slow, ineluctable attacks should need no further clarification: since the days of David and Goliath we have known it. No one can beat a spiritual enemy with a political weapon. The reach and patience is insufficient. Politicians compromise for the sake of maintaining the worldly order. Prophets do not compromise. Their world is not this world. That is true as well for false prophets as true.
But what religion is it, then?
It is witchcraft. We live in the Kingdom of the Witches.
Since the days of L Frank Baum, portrayals of witches as young, pretty, kindhearted and good have outnumbered any portrayal of witches as diabolical and sterile old crones bent on wickedness. Even now, most people will think of the neopagan, a wise woman, or a female magic-user from a fantasy story when the word witch is said, and not feel the horror and sorrow the word should carry.
But the essential nature of a witch, as she was portrayed in fairy tales (which contain a good deal more sense than newspapers) was of a withered, childless spinster: a woman with nothing to offer the community, but whom age and curiosity had opened the secret properties of plants and stars and other things easily turned to venom.
The witch could not defeat the young and happy, healthy family men and their lovely wives and pink-cheeked children by force of arms. Deceit, muttered spells, and poison brewed in a cauldron were her weapons, and as she flew through the air on her broom, she swept up any trail of clues left behind. And shoved children into her oven to consume them.
I suggest that what we face is a faith that holds forth a modern and materialistic version of all these same ancient and crooked evils. Note their targets and their methods.
As if this ever ended well. From the comments.
Witches… I will use that kind sir.
I have know many liberals. They often tell me they seek to free more from Christ. I tell them that they had better pray to God (not gaia, not odin, nor any man or woman, but God) that I and those like me stay with Christ.
When a society flees reason, and embraces madness, it does not become a idealized world. It becomes a charnal house. It will not be a bunch of women dancing around the maypole in the sunshine of the summer solstices, it would be the Pater Familias (my Latin is horrible, forgive me) exposing his newborn daughter. It would a son of Odin building the Wicker man, or a Druid reading the guts of a sacrifice.
They seek to tear down walls and fences without realizing why their forefathers and mothers BUILT those walls. It wasn’t to keep us constrained, it was to literally keep the Devil out.
I know too much of the old religions. The burden of Christ is easy and light. Compared to the bloody demands of the pagan demons, to whom Agamemnon sacrificed Iphigenia, and the lunatic demands of the narrative, Christ is sanity and reason and truth and beauty.
Do not listen to the wiccan narrative. Choose Christ.