Here is an op-ed by Michelle Goldberg from The New York Times:
On a Wednesday evening last week, I sat in on a class called “Witchcraft 101: Curses, Hexes and Jinxes,” at Catland, a fashionable occult boutique in Bushwick, Brooklyn. More than a dozen people, most of them young women, sat in folding chairs in the store’s black-walled event space. The instructor was one of Catland’s co-owners, Dakota Bracciale, a charismatic, foul-mouthed 28-year-old former M.A.C. makeup artist dressed in flowing black, with a beard and long, lavender nails.
“If you’re not ready to admit that the universe is chaos, I’m not sure how far you’re going to go,” Bracciale said to the class, describing witchcraft as a way to exercise power in a world without transcendent moral rules, a supernatural technology for taking care of yourself when no one else will. Witchcraft, Bracciale said, lets you be the “arbiter of your own justice.”
You can read the rest @
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/opinion/witches-occult-comeback.html
Some used to argue the USA was a Judeo-Christian nation. The evidence for that claim is rapidly vanishing.
Does witchcraft lead to "justice"? I doubt it does; but it definitely helps a person fit into the fantasy mindset which is taking over our culture.
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