Janice Crouse, a senior fellow with Concerned Women for America, says it’s disturbing that many young people in evangelical churches are experimenting with the Wiccan religion. Church leaders and Christian parents, she warns, must be ready to counter that growing interest among their youth.
Crouse cites an article in Religion Journal which said youth pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention were worried about large numbers of evangelicals taking part in Wicca, a religion that involves nature worship, stresses moral autonomy, and includes remedies and spells — beliefs that Crouse points out are distinctly different from orthodox Christianity, not to mention incompatible with the Bible.
“… Wiccans believe in moral autonomy — [that] ‘nobody can tell me what to do.’ And I think particularly with young people … that’s a very desirable thing; they don’t want the church telling them that there are boundaries, [that] there are things that they can’t do,” she explains. “Another one is that they don’t believe in having authorities beyond human constructs; that we as individuals have the responsibility to shape our own beliefs and there’s no evil beyond that.”
Crouse, who directs Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, says the interest in Wicca can be traced to recent books featuring witchcraft and similar topics.
“Some people think this goes back to the books that were so popular up until recently, and so many of the games and television programs that feature witchcraft and magic and fairy tales that have a dimension to it that if you just pull out some kind of spell you can make anything happen,” she says. “This has really become quite entrenched in many of the young people’s groups and in evangelicals in particular.”
According to Crouse, “earth worship” — as she describes Wicca — appeals to people who do not want to be bound by any book of authority or have imposed on them any requirements to be “believers.”
Satan uses Hollywood to separate your
children from God and plants the seeds of rebellion in their hearts, replacing
God with possessions and love of nature. Wicca fits right in. It offers a subjective
religious experience that is aided by Hollywood’s and your own invention.
Wicca is the religion of nature worship, of gods and goddesses, of spells and
incantations designed to bring influence upon circumstances and/or people.
Children who are sometimes lost in the transition between childhood
and adulthood, often do not know what direction to go to find truth and
meaning, but this does not stop them from trying. These children will seek
to identify with groups, music, causes, and philosophies.
It helps to give them purpose, meaning, and identity.
In addition Wicca is also a world religion based upon
ancient pagan belief of love of life and nature that allows them
to cater their beliefs and practices to their own desires. How satisfying!
Think about it. There is an attraction to the idea that you can construct a
religious system that suits your preferences and use that system to gain
control and influence. That is why many of the youth of today are joining up
with it. In 1998, the Chicago Tribune reported: “Neo-paganism is the
fastest-growing religion in North America with the Internet being the prime
means of proselytizing.” In 2001, the American Religious Identification
Survey (ARIS), conducted by the Graduate Center of the University of New
York, indicated seventeen-fold growth in the Wiccan community between
1990 and 2001—the highest of any faith group monitored. “This would
indicate a doubling in numbers of adherents about every 2.5 years.” Curott
estimates faster growth, suggesting “a doubling of size every 18 months.” If
either figure is accurate and if this trend continues, “Wicca [could] be the
third largest religious group in the U.S. by about 2012, behind Christianity
and Judaism. Wow talk about missing it! Witchcraft is going to be the third
largest religion in just 4 more years T.v. books and the internet are to blame.
parents need a wakeup call your own flesh and blood the children you love
and want to see in heaven are turning to a pagan worship. Parents eager to
appease children are aiding the spread of this religion by putting T.V. and
computers in children’s rooms and taking kids to movies like the golden compass or Harry potter and then buying the same books so they can
immerse themselves deeper in such fantasies. Many of these parents will
scoff at anyone who will try to tell them that Wicca is going to fill their
children with rebellion through shows such as these.
In fact, so pervasive is this appeal among the youth, that bookstores are now
selling books on witchcraft aimed at the youth. Just to see for myself, I
logged
on to barns and nobles and entered the words teen witch 856 book titles
appeared. I also entered teen Wicca here’s some of what came up.Silver Raven Wolf’s Teen Witch Kit : Everything You Need to Make Magick! by Silver RavenWolf, Natasha Melhuish (Illustrator)
Paperback – Boxed Kit
Average Customer Rating:3 ½ stars
ISBN-13: 9781567185546
Sales Rank: 72459
Pub. Date: August 2000
Here is everything the novice spell-caster needs to practice the Craft of The Wise-and be
a force for good. Step into the sacred space and discover the secrets of one of the …
Solitary Witch : The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation by Silver RavenWolf, Rojas (Editor) , Rebecca Zins (Editor)
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 4 ½ stars
ISBN-13: 9780738703190
Sales Rank: 36471
Pub. Date: February 2003
The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation This book has everything a teen
Witch could want and need between two covers: a magical cookbook, encyclopedia,
dictionary,
Blood Witch (Sweep Series #3) by Cate Tiernan
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 4 ½ stars
ISBN-13: 9780141311111
Sales Rank: 22537
Pub. Date: April 2001
This is the third book in a groundbreaking and suspenseful new series for teens. Sixteen-
year-old Morgan has never heard of Wicca-modern witchcraft-until she meets Cal. Then …
Witch-Hunt : Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson, Stephanie Anderson (Illustrator)
Paperback – Reprint
Average Customer Rating: 4 stars
ISBN-13: 9781416903154
Sales Rank: 27131
Pub. Date: August 2005
An acclaimed young adult historian sifts through the facts, myths, half-truths,
misinterpretations, and theories around the Salem witch trials to present readers with a
vivid, …
Teen Spell Book : Magick for Young Witches by Jamie Wood
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 4 ½ stars
ISBN-13: 9781587611155
Sales Rank: 53660
Pub. Date: September 2001
A volume of spells and Wiccan lore, including such spells as “Contact someone who has
died,” “Getting your crush to fall for you,” and “Make colleges beg for you
Where to Park Your Broomstick : A Teen’s Guide to Witchcraft by Lauren Manoy, Yan Apostolides (Illustrator) , Yan Apostolides (Illustrator)
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 5 stars
ISBN-13: 9780684855004
Sales Rank: 144223
Pub. Date: September 2002
A guide to witchcraft and the working of Magick, explaining how to get in touch with
your own sacredness and create and cast various spells
Elements of Witchcraft : Natural Magick for Teens by Ellen Dugan, Zins (Editor)
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 5 stars
ISBN-13: 9780738703930
Sales Rank: 145127
Pub. Date: May 2003
Study and work with the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water and learn many
different forms of real magick, including crystal, herb, stone, color, and candle magick. …
Teen Witch : Wicca for a New Generation by Silver RavenWolf, Silver RavenWolf
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 4 ½ stars
ISBN-13: 9781567187250
Sales Rank: 229309
Pub. Date: September 1998
Come on, you know you’d look glamorous and powerful in black…that lighting candles
and calling spirits would give you an aura of mystery…that life would be better if only
Spellcraft for Teens : A Magical Guide to Writing and Casting Spells by Gwinevere Rain, Karin Simoneau (Editor)
Paperback
Average Customer Rating: 5 stars
ISBN-13: 9780738702254
Sales Rank: 180806
Pub. Date: September 2002
Wiccan magick for teens written by a real teen witch. Empower, bewitch, and enchant.
Written by a teen witch with her own popular website, SpellCraft for Teens and at the top of the teen witch list was Harry potter, the blood witch
and the golden compass. These books are packaged to appeal to young
children and teens they are packed full of things like bus stop spells,
homework spells, allowance spells and spells to make your child more
popular.
I say it’s time for revival. Turn away from this false God Lev. 19:31, “Do not
turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I
am the Lord your God.” Lev. 19:26, ‘You shall not eat anything with the
blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying My father once said that the end of the world was set in motion when manupset the balance of nature and caused the extinction of the first species. He was saying that every creature has its purpose and that God had a purpose in creating all life like on a assembly line all the stations on the line rely on the different parts to make a complete finished work and if some of the stations stop supplying parts before long your sure to end up with too many of some parts and not enough of others, you can go on like this for a while but sooner or later if someone doesn’t get more parts or replace the missing operator the whole thing stops. In nature a prime example is seen when a species has no natural predator and with out its natural enemy it begins to over produce and out number its own prey and the hunt it till extinction and with out its natural prey will die and like dominos species after species disappear. Wicca has no outspoken enemy in America and its growth has been left unchecked and is being ether purposely, or unwittingly being used in T.V. movies, in books, schools and by politicians and if this problem isn’t addressed the Christian in America will be the next endangered species Wicca is something that parents and leaders need to address today nothing is more important than our children! Thanks” your brother in Christ Perry.