Terrifying: American Witchcraft Rises as Christianity Declines
By Daily Wire. . .According to The Telegraph, the number of Americans who identify as witches now outpace the total number of Presbyterians – 1.5 million.
“As Christianity declines across the country, paganism has swung to the mainstream, with witchcraft paraphernalia for sale on every high street and practices normalized across popular culture,” reports the outlet.
Witchcraft has become especially popular during the Trump administration. Following the president’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, witches gathered to cast a collective binding spell against him. They repeated this following the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
According to Vox, “many quasi-religious rituals” were making the rounds in the halls of social media to “help self-identified witches process trauma, anger, and grief” in the wake of Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. One popular spell is the “Gratitude Spell,” authored by Instagram user @celestightfor the pagan political organization WitchTheVote that focuses on feminist causes.
“In this open-ended spell, participants might choose to make a sigil — a sacred sign — on the paper, or vary their tribute to Ford in accordance with their own personal experiences and history,” reports Vox. “They might, if they so choose, send their note to Ford directly.” (Read more from “Terrifying: American Witchcraft Rises as Christianity Declines” HERE)
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Why Millennials Are Ditching Religion for Witchcraft and Astrology
By Market Watch. When Coco Layne, a Brooklyn-based producer, meets someone new these days, the first question that comes up in conversation isn’t “Where do you live?” or “What do you do?” but “What’s your sign?”
“So many millennials read their horoscopes every day and believe them,” Layne, who is involved in a number of nonreligious spiritual practices, said. “It is a good reference point to identify and place people in the world.”
Interest in spirituality has been booming in recent years while interest in religion plummets, especially among millennials. The majority of Americans now believe it is not necessary to believe in God to have good morals, a study from Pew Research Center found. The percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 29 who “never doubt existence of God” fell from 81% in 2007 to 67% in 2012.
Meanwhile, more than half of young adults in the U.S. believe astrology is a science. compared to less than 8% of the Chinese public. The psychic services industry — which includes astrology, aura reading, mediumship, tarot-card reading and palmistry, among other metaphysical services — grew 2% between 2011 and 2016. It is now worth $2 billion annually, according to industry analysis firm IBIS World. (Read more from “Why Millennials Are Ditching Religion for Witchcraft and Astrology” HERE)
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