but then people start copying

and then that stuff bleeds into US and therefore world culture through weeaboos in hollywood

and you end up with shows that edgy retarded teenage girls base their made up personal cults on like Supernatural

and then that mixes into popular discourse as "lost knowledge" when really it's been dismissed for over a thousand years as herresy and nonsense

Yeah. The popularity of "witches" and satanism among edgy girls has to be one of the most irritating things on the internet

That's been a thing since the 60s though, when the new age movement legitimized all the late spiritualists of the 50s

the gnostic streak is fairly new, at least removed from early 20th century spiritualism and its impact on stuff like Wicca

the whole wicca and witch thing is depressing to see, my younger sister who was raised as a Catholic has taken a liking to wicca and "practices" it, it upsets me sometimes to see that she rejects the beauty of God's gifts for heresy

It's really just gross to me tbh

like, I deeply appreciate the beauty of nature and all

but it's beautiful like an abstract form of poetry proclaiming the greatness of its Creator

not an object worthy of worship itself

Nature has never done good to man, it is cruel and unforgiving because it is imperfect as this earth

God makes the good in it manifest

when it is explained to me by said sister it just sounds like shamanism with a different name

That's basically what it is. It's an amalgam of random paganisms from around the world, with heavy influences by germanic paganism especially

A lot of emphasis on "energy" in the new age sense, be it "magic" or "positivity" or whatever the preferred buzzword is, along with miraculous acts either fabricated or "that come at a cost" (demonic).

I've yet to meet a witch actually capable, but hell Pharoh's sorcerers performed magic against Moses (weak though it was), I don't put anything past the evil of this world acting outside the light of Christ...

My hope is that one day we're able to bring her back to God but idk if it'll happen cause it's gotten it's claws around her

prayer my dude, and don't ever stop having conversations with her

try to find the holes in it; the devil is a liar, and a good one, but not a perfect one

let her explain why she believes, give her a chance to get to the heart of it, then in love and gentleness bring up the failure it is in Christ. Polemics don't much help the lost, and while some vessels are made for destruction, Christ does not abandon the sheep of his fold.

It just takes a gentle hand to guide them back sometimes

Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote

http://flip.it/Shc5pF

For fuck's sake.

Big hmm

Hang on, hang on.

Is he a comedian turned politician?

Or is this some sort of show they're advertising?

Both

He's a comedian that starred in a show about him becoming the president and now he is running for president for real

Huh.

@Daniil Russian Orthodox in here now have a bishop

His Eminence Archbishop Feofan Kim of Kyzyl and Tuva appointed as Bishop in here

Wonder when he will come here

From archbishop to bishop?

http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/5404972.html

@Daniil I just used Google translator(russian to english)

My Russian level is "beginner" and not fluent, so I still need the aid of translation

Ah, nothing weird then