Christians Condemn Vodou Magic while Doing Some of Their Own


The world of witches is more varied than most people think. Not all witches are Pagan. Some are Christian and its history is more Christian than Pagan.

Besides Christian witches today, there have been centuries of Christian-based witch magic. After forced Christianity, the black version of witchcraft used sources from the Bible for justification. Moses was a source of witch material. Parting the waters was magic. Witches identifying as Pagan is new, its tradition was Christian.

A current advocate of witchcraft, a man, is admonishing fellow witches to stop self-identifying as exclusively female and Pagan and get back to the basics. The basics are both genders and Christian.

We know the Bible teaches magic is bad, Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, Gensis 22.  A most recent version was banning Harry Potter books because they were thought to cast a spell. Yet the Bible is full of magic. 

The most common reaction of Christian leaders including Christian academics is that any practice of witchcraft or magic is a sign that branch is not "true Christian." Christianity is a self-identified religion and anyone can claim it means whatever they want it to be about. It is said of Haiti, "Haiti is 30% Protestant, 70% Catholic and 100% Vodou." I would assume if you asked a Haitian Christian whose faith includes Vodou if hers/his is the "true faith" the answer would be yes. Further, other views of Christianity would be imposters.   

Early black folk magic was called Hoodoo.  Practitioners "..saw the Bible as a powerful source of spells and charms, and the words of scripture themselves were thought to magically ward off evil when worn as a medallion."  

The popular desire to claim witchcraft as Pagan perhaps is a way the separate a younger generation from the Christianity of their parents. Historically the separation is not there and witchcraft man be more Christian than Pagan. Some current witches are urging others not to refer to it as exclusively Pagan but also Christian.

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