the various forms of neo paganism around today, aren't any better than any monotheistic reliigion, they're just getting trendier, more outrageous with their claims and breeding a world full of charmed girls and boys thinking they can do things, that really...they aren't but being used to manifest energy for entities no one really or truly knows who or what they are...

but i'm sure billy's laughing at those faiths for an entirely different reason, but all religion goes down the same path when it's embraced by masses of people, wiccan "circles" have as much he says, she says popularity contests as any other group of people gathered.

if the occult was what it once was, i probably wouldn't have changed my colors, but i got disgusted by what the neo pagan movements became, long before Gd reached out and snatched me free, they became trendy cliches of coolness, and most of those pushing the ideals, had no clue where it came from...i needed some higher strength in my life to inspire me to clean up my act, that didn't take anything from me.

real or not, Abraham's Gd was the only one that was able to smack me upside the head to realize that i wasn't freed by my choices to do as i will, but only being bound by my flesh to material needs and unhealthy choices.

that's what religion should do, build a person up; not encourage them to embrace their beastial id side of selfish want and ego.