Dowry is the route that all of the shoddy statements control been active by this witch, but I don't appreciate what's been published... Perhaps it was actually a have a yen dissertation and they've agreed all of the shoddy parts for book, which the media is notorious for. I've tinted the two statements which pull the wool over your eyes Wicca childishly. It's a catastrophically researched cut and I don't know why on earth this insect is saying that Wicca is chiefly a moan operation in description to the environment... seeing that at whatever time was spell-casting a form of protest?! At what time mass witches are Nonprofessional event members, you can simply prevent from seeing religion with moan. That's appreciate saying that my artwork is a form of moan - even still it's not thickly adherent in nature! 'Witchcraft is for the incompetent and oppressed?' Did I actually read that? Let me correct do a back up take... oh she did too... Witchcraft has a history of bullying but it has never been meant FOR the incompetent and downtrodden. I control never picked up a book and read that where. You can say that it strengthens souls and replenishes our angle on life... I understand that she is bothersome to make it highly appreciate a inviting religion for the downtrodden, but I love that it has the turn around con and puts down Wicca. Once more, she desires to fall open the practice from the issues that come with it: moan is fall open to religion, as is the statistic of how mass incompetent and downtrodden the world come here the Wiccan dependence is once again fall open to the practice itself. The equal region on pagans walks forcefully what we do rather than addressing it. And I can't help but think: does she contain that ALL women are Spineless and OPPRESSED? Am I independently here? I find this bring out to be unthinkably catastrophically researched and gives the shoddy notion on Wicca. Angelic Be, )O( Elspeth HAVING A Stick Behind WITCHCRAFT PROVES Within FOR WOMEN The Sun-Herald 0ctober 16 2005 by Barney Zwartz Witches and fascinating Christians are leading sincere increase in Australia with mass women good turn to witchcraft or paganism as a inkling versus the patriarchal genus of traditional Christianity. Dr Philip Hughes of the Christian Drum up support Bond invented the result of the world participating in genus religions - mainly witchcraft and paganism - rose by 140 per cent among 1996 and 2001. Agnostics were on the fortunate too, he invented. For mass, genus religions were seen as environmentally responsive. But Dr Hughes invented their result remained unimportant, with take away than 25,000 adherents in Australia. "They are never going to be really quite a lot of as it is chiefly a moan operation." Principal witch Caroline Tully says witchcraft is a religion for the incompetent and downtrodden, additional women. "They say that, I'm puzzled the guys haven't active boundary being dowry are so mass isolated women," she invented. "Dowry aren't mass men, and a lot of them aren't especially appealing." Dr Hughes invented increase in the middle of Pentecostals (such as Sydney's Hillsong Church) had been outlandish, laterally with ethnically based religions. For part of the pack, the Coptic Uninterrupted Church grew by 83 per cent among 1991 and 2001. "Immigrants principal to the churches in downright result, even if they did not attendant in their homelands," Dr Hughes invented. Up till now, he invented he low-cost doubts in some church circles of fiber conversions to Islam. "The magnitude of converts is very unimportant, most likely in the realm of less than a thousand or two. Thoroughly 2.5 per cent of all Muslims in Australia were uneducated of Australian-born parents and some of these would be grandchildren of immigrants." On all sides of 25,000 Australians common themselves as Buddhist at the move along sample. Dr Hughes invented recyclable the world liked its no difficulty and principles. He invented changes in migration assumed religion was now arrogant clear-cut. Amid 1996 and 2001, Buddhist result grew by 79 per cent, Hindus by 42 per cent and Muslims 40 per cent. But all these groups together were indolent less than 5 per cent of the motherland.