Is your child being lured into witchcraft?

Well, Wicca was invented by Gardner, stealing a lot from Crowley in the late 40's and 50's. Other variations tend to just be elements of "paganism" along with new age ideas lashed together in rather a pic 'n' mix fashion. Teenage programmes and films have certainly had a large element in the expansion and inclusion of feminist views into the patchwork quilt.
    Even in serious Occultism though the pic 'n' mix aspect has been adopted in ideas such as the 80's invention of Chaos Magic. Orders such as the OTO or the AA tend to be on the outside looking in these days. I am delighted when I see serious sigil work being included by anyone though. Austin Osman Spare was a giant too often overlooked.

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Rather than command us to put witches to death (just like any other death penalty in the Pentateuch) the bible here instructs others (perhaps the courts) to not let any witches live, which seems to be a simple translation of this verse from Hebrew to english.

Rashbam notes that this must be a specific instruction given to others to "hunt them down", because witches tended to practice witchcraft in hiding. Shadal follows this understanding as well.

(Various other Jewish commentaries suggest that this language is used to teach us that the commandment is to kill witches immediately however possible, as opposed to waiting for judgment.)

Mecklenburg suggests that this wording is used as a parallel to Deuteronomy 20:16, which refers to the killing of all of the Canaanite Nations, and tells us that we should not have mercy, even on women. This applies here as well, where the verse is discussing witchcraft, which was generally performed by women.

Yeah, I guess he would be considered a low life for stealing another man's wife. Perhaps people should have been wary of such a man, before joining any "new religion" started by someone like that.

No, the ancient Greeks weren't the only ones that feared witches. Other cultures did too.

Witchcraft

Both Our Lady & St. Joseph Belong to God.

LOL.

Have you forgotten about that tricky little thing called free will and you asserting that god would NEVER interfere with free will?

How do you know that?

It seems like the usual emotional blackmail employed by the Christain (especially Catholic) church in action.

Christians commonly refer to her as the Virgin Mary, in accordance with the belief that the Holy Spirit impregnated her, thereby conceiving her first-born Jesus miraculously, without sexual relations with her betrothed/husband, "until her son [Jesus] was born", but naturally without any record of a medical examination confirming matters. (Mt 1:25) But the fact remains that while she was busy with the Almighty she was already betrothed or married to Joseph.

Even more mind boggling is the perpetual virginity of Mary, the doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ. ... Mary's pre-birth virginity (unless one wishes to revive the "young woman controversy) is supposedly attested in the New Testament, but there is no biblical basis for her perpetual virginity. Some in the early church believed this, but I am not sure if it is still common. An important historical document which supports the teaching of Mary’s perpetual virginity is the Protoevangelium of James, which was written probably less than sixty years after the conclusion of Mary’s earthly life (around A.D. 120), when memories of her life were still vivid in the minds of many. This belief conveniently ignores the Gospel of Mark (6:3) and the Gospel of Matthew (13:55-56) which mention James, Joseph/Joses, Judas/Jude and Simon as brothers of Jesus, the son of Mary. The same verses also mention unnamed sisters of Jesus. Mark (3:31-32) tells about Jesus' mother and brothers looking for Jesus. As one might expect the special pleading and qualification around these passages interpret 'sister' and 'brother' not in the most commonly understood way.

Joseph was Mary’s beard. I think the gospel writers understood there was a problem with an unmarried girl showing up in the marketplace with a baby bump. The “an angel appeared in the middle of the night and knocked me up” would not work on a lot people. Especially since a favorite village pastime was stoning loose women to death.