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Is anybody else troubled by how many young people are captivated by 
witchcraft these days? : Catholicism
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What bothers me about it is that it's religious cosplay with none of the substance.
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One of the top comments.
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Where does he say this is proof of God?
Did you read the comment?
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His existence is implied with this type of argument or "observation." That's all I'm getting at, sweaty.
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I don't think it's that shallow an observation to recognize that man's search for meaning and ritual are hardwired into us.
Regardless the reason I shared it in this chain was the part about dunking on 
witches 
for mimicking "true" religious habits but inversing it to be a vain form of masturbation.
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It's faulty reasoning because it's so arbitrary.
Like all religions.
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I think it's awful from even my athiestic view because witchcraft is so thought stopping. Empty rituals and self-congratulation fail to yield any secular equivalents to the meaningful aspects of religion.
I think ethics without religion can be pretty straightforward, but the faithful have a point when religion gets replaced with something ethically empty -- devoid of obligation to call back to the comment you quoted.
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People tend to treat the prayers and ritual of religious life as mundane and don't emphasise it. My grandfather told me that the Eucharist was a literal divine sublimation into something utterly beyond us. He was a smart dude but he grew up rural and kept that mentality with him.
"Yeah I'm literally invoking angels and divine spirits to watch over you. Be grateful and say a prayer for me too yeah
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!chuds
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I will say a prayer for your grandfather, for you, and for the rest of your family, as well.
May God bless and watch over you all.
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I love when my mom does this for me
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Yes, unlike wiccans who are doing make pretend, our man in the special robe is LITERALLY invoking a supernatural spirit to come inhabit this cracker for us to eat. We are not alike.
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I mean that it's not treated as sexy and cool so midwits disregard it as its something they view as boring since they grew up with it.
It's about your rhetoric and charisma.
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Yea I 100% agree with this guy, it's just a LARP to fill the need for genuine spiritual or social interaction and basically find a group to fit in. Highly doubt many people who practice modern witchcraft genuinely believe in any mysticism or esotericism associated with their practices. Not that it matters, none of it is real anyways.
The real problem is that this new iteration of witchcraft along with like 90% of modern social movements is just a way to justify doing whatever you want all the time
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i actually thought this too until my reversion, and when i went to confession the priest explicitly told me not to think like this, as there is actually a chance that someone doing tarot/tiktok witch stuff is either
1. communing with genuine demons
2. actually demonic and leading you astray
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lol
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You can disagree that the substance is correct, but it's Redditor edgelord BS to claim it's absent. !catholics
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But I'm not religious or a witch?
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