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Originally Posted by Leslie  Evidently I'm not on the same wavelength as all of you and I don't understand why. Keep writing. Maybe I'll learn something. |
I suppose we have to start by defining what we mean by both witchcraft and by "cultural manifestations".
By witchcraft I think that we mean attempts to influence the physical world (or to interelate with a spiritual world) and by culteral manifestations we are seeking to recognise that what the nature in which such witchcraft will be manifested will change over time and culture.
Going back to your opening post I would suggest that some of the issues that you identify are not witchcraft in themselves but perhaps manifestations of an interest in the possibility or history of witchcraft. The fault of such activities are more in the fact that they are not Godly than they are in themselves satanic. The same critisism could be made of classic literature and Sport but it is a quetion of how they are enjoyed, not that they are enjoyed.
What is necessarily evil are mediums, astrology etc where attempts to influence the physical world is implicit in the act and such activites can never be enjoyed in a Godly manner.