re: #974 Obdicut

Well, his point is a very valid one: Christianity has taken in a lot of various pagan traditions unto itself. Even the continued belief in actual demonic possession and exorcism is to me, indistinguishable from witchcraft. I know it’s not a major part of Catholic theology, but it is in there.

Furthermore, there are a lot of other more mystical sects that engage in things like laying on of hands, snake-handling, and other things that are more directly obviously ‘witchcrafty’. So the fact that it’s Christianity blended with some other tradition doesn’t make it non-Christian.

Now this is a discussion that’s difficult for me.
The mystical sects you are talking about - many do not recognize my flavor of Christianity (Catholocism) as even being CHRISTIAN. I, of course, return the favor to them.