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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Wyldeland theory of magic (& witchcraft)
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 11:05:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 11:05:54 1986
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Keywords: animist magic
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In article <142@zen.BERKELEY.EDU>, iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson) writes:
> 	Well, maybe that is so direct as to make anyone answering yes seem
> a fool.  Perhaps I should rephrase.  Should such a person exist that claims
> to be a witch, or practise black magic, or worship Satan - would you think
> that such a person was crazy, bad, or downright evil?

Well, the poster you are responding to said that he had become an animist -
although I don't quite see the point, animism as a religon is a far cry
from Satanism.  If somebody calls themself a witch, that's fine with me,
but if they say they worship Satan, which is quite a different thing, I
start to worry...  Not that they're going to put a hex on me, but that
such a person would have to be pretty unstable to begin with... Assuming
of course that he or she means the standard Christian Satan, not Pan whom
Satan is derived from...

	Wayne