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To: Solon who wrote (23396)	3/24/2012 2:35:59 PM
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"Much of it derives from an anti-intellectualism rooted in biblical nonsense. It is a form of "WISHCRAFT" ! "Americans are suspicious of and resent intellectuals, even while benefiting from their output. This negativity goes back to the Puritans. They had a piety that deemed us all "worthless sinners" and rejected anyone being puffed up with their own merit " Its so true even still today but thats changing rapidly right before our eyes and its no wishcraft . When the struggle for survival is so strong & competition so great on every side between man & man / man & nature combined , there's time only enough for the simplest inherited stories of "invisible forces" . Emellished upon represented first as the forces of nature themselves & the Sun /Moon and powerful animals , later taking on idol status with the semi~human & human impersonations of Egyptian & Greek , these later idolizations distill naturally down to the final "WE were created in God's image " * When Ben Franklyn died who was perhaps as much a single force for winning our revolution (or George Washington would have been fighting with bows & arrows ) it was the French that nationally mourned him universally as a nation & celebrated his life as one of their own greatest heros . American scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, and philosopher plus a healthy interest in the ladies .... were always a combination of qualities that would arouse suspicion from those pious pulpits of the day . So it was the French that gave him the most honor and from peasant to king all held him with highest esteem .

To: Solon who wrote (23396)	3/24/2012 3:00:16 PM
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"Wishcraft" ....America itself had this love affair with popular positive portrayals of witchcraft back in the late 50's & early 1960's with this Frank Sinatra song kind of captures that human wish also popularized in the new powerful medium= TV series of "I Dream of Jeannie or "Bewitched" , just modernized versions of that same ancient strong tendency for all human beings to seek escape from the daily strife & living plight thru employment of sympathetic magic , ritual & invisble powerful forces . ( was also was the rat race mentality , dawning of the age of fast food and modern convenience so the deep mystical aspects of magic ritual become common , harmless snapping of fingers , "presto"...but life still vast competition ) As time goes on and man's power & civilizations grow in stature so does his reach of imagination , what was originally compartmentalized earlier dieties , eventually get transposed , elevated all rolled into ONE supreme version and we we're all created in "His" image . We all know that Yaweh & Allah are male gods but at least there are some theologians that can see beyond that simplemindness that such a being would transcend all forms by very definition of "spirit" residing in all forms . "Witchcraft" ...the mystery of forces "believed" to be greater than ourselves and of course the need for those to "interpret" what is ontopic or not , like pope gregy here ! ;o)