Witchcraft is legal and has tax exempt status. Wiccan chaplains are in
the military and despite the so called separation of Church and State,
Wicca is exploiting its public acceptance throughout our educational
system. Children as young as six years old are being read Harry Potter
books aloud by their teaches in classrooms across America while Bible
reading, the teaching of Christianity and the posting of the Ten
Commandments is outlawed. Parents didn’t complain when their tax
dollars were used to bus hundreds of children to Harry Potter matinees
in movie theatres around the nation yet parents protest the Christian
celebration of Christmas and Easter in (government) schools. These
occasions must now be given the pagan names preferred by nature
worshipers – Spring and Winter Holidays .
Halloween, also known as the nature Harvest Festival, is the major New
Year holiday of Witches and Pagans and blatantly permitted as a party
time opportunity (separating its religious roots) in schools
everywhere. Yet, I’m confident school buses could not be used to take
children to Mel Gibson’s Passion of The Christ at the time Christian’s
celebrate their Messiah’s zenith celebration, The Resurrection.
Wicca, encouraged through schools and fanned by the entertainment
industry who are deliberately targeting our children, (see my DVD: Gods
of Entertainment (2)) is the fastest-growing religion in America among
pre-teens and also thrives in higher educational facilities: on college
campuses, classrooms and through campus associations aided by such
Wiccan promoters as Anthony Paige. Paige, a graduate of SUNY Purchase
College started a Wiccan student group on campus and is the successful
author of the bestseller, “Rocking the Goddess: Campus Wicca for the
Student Practitioner”. His publisher’s promotion states the book’s
purpose – “an indispensable guide to an old religion for a new
generation, one that will help you feel the mystery, experience the
magick, and find the witch within (Branwen’s Cauldon).” (3)
Many argue that our children know the difference between the so-called
fantasy of Harry Potter’s world and that of “real” witchcraft but facts
show otherwise. The author of Harry Potter, Joanne “JK” Rowling, openly
admits she gets hundreds of letters from fans asking to attend
Hogwart’s, Harry’s occult boarding school of witchcraft and wizardry.
Those mentioned in my documentary, Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repacked
(www.caryltv.com) admit they want Harry’s power to be able to cast
spells and hexes on their parents, teachers or those they love in order
to manipulate their devotion. When I was at Kings Cross Train Station
in London recently, the stationmaster admitted hundreds come to see the
supposed platform which Harry’s fictional school train leaves from. He
also mentioned several accidents occurred when children, who mimicked
Harry, run through the brick barricade to catch the Hogwart’s Express,
the imaginary train Harry takes to enter his magical dimension.
The Pagan Federation of England affirm they receive thousands of
letters from children after the airing of such TV programs as Buffy the
Vampire Slayer or Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Children ask the location
of local Wicca covens to attend and learn the occult techniques
promoted in Harry’s books and by other young witches in a plethora of
movies and programs that glorify witchcraft and pagan ideology. (See my
VHS Death By Entertainment (4)).
In my documentary, Supernatural Powers: The Battle Between Good and
Evil (www.caryltv.com) I interview those who, as children had been
introduced to the occult by reading “fantasy” literature. Over a short
time they got hooked, addicted and drawn into dangerous spirituality
which changed their disposition and attitudes, making them moody and
depressed. From personal experience they warn against child-friendly
allurements that attract the vulnerable into emotional distress and an
unhealthy interest in the occult. No longer relegated to dark alleys
and seen as fearful occultism, “fantasy” literature openly aim at our
youth. Piggy backing off Harry Potter, glamorously packaged and
enticingly displayed New Age, Pagan and Wiccan books for children cram
the shelves of book stores such as Barnes and Noble, USA’s biggest
chain bookstore.
If, as claimed, reading is the agenda, why not get children to read
literature that promotes healthy social values and belief in
constructive character development, the furtherance of integrity,
truthfulness, honesty and social compassion towards the less
advantaged? Harry’s adventures uphold his lying, cheating, stealing and
rude, rebellious nature as acceptable even by his adult occult
teachers. He not only practices various alchemy magick and spell
casting but is driven to improve them so that he can combat the
powerful darkness his deeds pull him into. He aspires to more
aggressive eastern type meditation, yogic-centering and
deeper-concentration techniques to counter the nightmares, hot-sweats,
violent anger and addictive pains in his stomach, some of the many
symptoms occultists admit they experience as they dabble in the
supernatural world of powers and principalities.
Any serious witch will openly admit to the yearning for power that
benefits for supposed good and healing. Yet they also admit that that
power can be abused according to each practitioner’s skill and desire.
We learn that Harry misuses his power for evil and selfish ambition, a
power which interestingly is linked with the same source as his
nemesis, the Evil Lord Voldemort represented as a serpent. All world
religions, while admitting the power of the serpent, know it to be
fearful, yet Harry is able to talk “serpent” language.
There is no doubt children are being seduced into believing the
dark-arts are “fun”, benign and a positive power for personal
enablement. But responsible parents must be aware that while such
practices may be dismissed as “fantasy” they are not to be relegated to
the flight of the imagination. The supernatural world is a reality and
dabbling with its dark-side is not harmless. Our children are immersed
in its cruelty and depravity in a daily battle vying for their spirits
and they want the power to tackle it.
A chilling aspect of this craving can be read in Misty Bernall’s book
about her murdered daughter Cassie, who through her school-day dabbling
in witchcraft got drawn into satanism, self mutilation and a desire to
kill her parents. Cassie, the 17 year old Columbine High School student
who was ultimately killed, along with 13 other Columbine victims has
her story compassionately described in her mother’s memoirs and through
letters Cassie wrote(5). Much of the ugliness of her spiritual battle -
“dark rhymes and lyrics decorated with lurid images of vampires, drugs,
and mutilated bodies, including grisly drawings…..” and “Cassie reacted
with fits of anger and despair, threats of running away and killing
herself…..” are sentiments strewn throughout the pages of Harry Potter.
Cassie’s story reveals a significant answer for concerned parents and
troubled children trapped by the dangers of today’s growing pagan
movement. Cassie’s mother tells how her daughter found faith in a
powerful God Who set her free from the darkness that held her in a vice
of bondage. In the end, Cassie was martyred for her faith: killed by
two fellow classmates who had stormed the school, guns blazing, with
murder on their minds, warped by their own deprived, satanic
experiences, but hopefully Cassie’s martyrdom is not a waste if
children today can be helped by Cassie’s courageous message.(3)
