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Technically, witchcarft isn't. It's really more of a practise, and is generally very broad.

Like, making home-made tea falls under witchcraft in a technical sense.

It doesn't really need much of a god in placement, and by deffinition is really immoral. Hence why people go "white" and "black" magic, and the ocasional gray, so to show what they're doing. People just put dieties in their place of who to get energy from like in a spell.

It's a religious practise for some, yes. Maybe even manditory. But a religion in itself is simply laughable from what I see.

At least, that's how I see it.

When exactly does he say it's evil?

I think it's more of an a at the end instead of an e. :B

It's a general problems I think... And not only for the Bush family. Lot of people had always an idea about a subject (whatever it is they don't know what they talking about but they thinks they are so clever to know almost everything).

For the basic people Witchcraft and all spiritual research is devil's worship ! They don't know that it was Church for having more control on human being's in 8th century they took the god pan for being Satan or something and that's pretty much it. Spending bad story about few christian people who doesn't look like everyone else (too much beautiful or to old even to much friends and that's a wizard or a witch)...

So for me, for fighting this nonsense, I enter in pagan association who fight for the pagan and earth right. We made petition (we saved some sacred stones area in French Britain from lobbying and destruction). And we try to teach our myths and beliefs. I think this is the better way for fighting, in a peaceful spirit, stupid people.

P.S. I edit my post : For Irland people did you know that it was some activism for the hill of Tara (lobbying want to built and railway... so here is a link when you will find informations

http://www.tarawatch.org/

Well for what we know, it's a druids place and a real powerful energy point. I don't think english people will appreciate to destroy stonehenge ??? It's the same thing for our menhir. And by the way, the hill of Tara is really important in the Irish history.

There is a petition for brocéliande too, I guess. Homo sapiens sapiens used her for treating his garbage. So what is important, to follow some guy who doesn't care for what we are ? Or to preserve our identity for our future and children future ? If you are against a guy who doesn't respect what you are and what you believe, what is your arms ? This is my arms, trying to teach to others our culture, what is our myths and legends because losing our roots it's denied our identity.

Well, this wasn't really how I meant for this conversation to go, so here's a funny list I found.

You Might be a Redneck Pagan If...

* If any part of your invocation of the South Quarter includes any lines from any song by Lynard Skynard....
* If chewing tobacco is considered a sacred herb.....
* If part of your rite includes throwing shotgun shells on the fire....
* If the bell on your alter was ever worn by an animal in a pasture....
* If the cakes and wine are done with a bowie-knife, a can of Foster's, and a Little Debbie.....
* If they chose their High Priestess at a wet t-shirt contest....
* If when your priestess says "Blessed Be" in circle, you respond with "YEEE-HAW!"...
* If you believe a pentagram is a Western Union message to 5 people....
* If you bought your chalice at the Piggly Wiggly.....
* If you buy your incense and candles at Wal-Mart....
* If you call the God and Goddess by hollerin' "Hey, y'all! Watch me!"....
* If you call the North Quarter, but what you call it is an inner court secret.....
* If you can play the "Burning Times" on the banjo....
* If you carry your ritual sword in your pickup's gun rack.....
* If you found out your familiar is an oppossum -- and still ate it........
* If you have combined Maypole Dancing/ Tractor Pull/ Turkey Shoot for Beltane....
* If you have cast a love spell on livestock....
* If you have ever called the National Enquirer because you raised a potato that resembled the Willendorf Goddess....
* If you've ever cancelled a coven meeting to watch Pay-Per-View wrestling on TV....
* If you've ever written a spell on the back of a Denny's menu.....
* If you have ever refilled your chalice from a keg.....
* If you invoke the spirits so that your beer lasts longer.....
* If you pray nightly to the god of big tires.....
* If you sacrifice BBQ and pork rinds on an alter made of old car hoods....
* If you shoot guns into the air when the priestess says, "the circle is open but never unbroken"...
* If you smoke Salem cigarettes for the historical significance....
* If you think a "family tradition" is a dating club....
* If you think the Wiccan Rede is good for making twig furniture....
* If you worship the gods of cheap beer and Nascar....
* If you've ever done a candle spell for your local high-school football team....
* If you've ever harvested ritual herbs with a weed whacker.....
* If you've ever meditated to "Dueling Banjos".....
* If you've reached the 3rd Degree but not the third grade......
* If your God statue looks a little too much like Elvis Presley.....
* If your Goddess picture says "Miss September" at the bottom......
* If your Wand of Power is a cattle prod.....
* If your altar cloth is a Confederate flag.....
* If your altar cloth is vinyl......
* If your altar cloth says "Holiday Inn" or "Howard Johnson's"....
* If your altar has a spit cup.....
* If your altar pentacle is a photo of John Wayne's star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame".....
* If your annointing oil smells like Old Spice.....
* If your athame is by Bowie.....
* If your broom has 4 wheel drive and SC plates.....
* If your ceremonial chalice says "Budweiser" on it....
* If your ceremonial garb consists of cut-offs and a tube-top.....
* If your circle dance contains the words "dosey-do"......
* If your circle dance is a two-step....
* If your coven chose its High Priest at a belching contest....
* If your coven's secret names for the God and Goddess are "Cooter" and "Sweet Cheeks"....
* If your coven-stead is propped up on cinder blocks.....
* If your craft name starts with "Bubba"......
* If your familiar can point quail....
* If your familiar keeps mice out of the granary.....
* If your favorite Great Rite partner is your first, second, and third cousin....
* If your backyard ritual libation is brewed in an illegal backyard still......
* If your favorite painting of the Goddess does her hair like Rheba McEntire....
* If your maiden sweeps the circle with a weed whacker....
* If your most sacred altar items include a hubcap, a velvet painting, and a half-empty can of chaw.....
* If your outdoor circle has defunct washing machines for quarter altars....
* If your pantheon includes Yukon Jack, Jim Beam and the St. Pauli Girl...
* If your ritual music has ever included Johnny Cash singing "Ring of Fire"....
* If your robes are made out of denim with Harley Davidson patches.....
* Well, you might just be a redneck pagan!!