[Didymus Much]

Re: Should Christians do Witch Hunting during Walpurgisnacht?

Update: I'm going to the woods in order to preach to the witches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, hope that nothing goes wrong tonight.

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this:





And a couple of shot glasses.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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And a couple of shot glasses.

I was thinking a spray pump and a box of matches.

[Dennis Lukes]

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And a couple of shot glasses.

I was thinking a spray pump and a box of matches.

You're both close. What he needs is a pump-action shotgun.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Should Christians do Witch Hunting during Walpurgisnacht?

I found a solution to the constant rise of witchcraft [on] the night that comes before the Worker's Day in May

If you're referring to Mayday, you've picked one of the worst fusion dates on the calendar: communism and witchcraft. I'm not saying that witches are communists, generally they're not, and communists—although working for devils whether they know it or not—are not generally witches. You really ought to consider how the Germanic tribes learned about Jesus in the first place. Catholicism did not exist as a Christian heresy until the bishop of Rome decided he was better than everyone else, which means better than other bishops since as a caste they already think they're better than people like me as can be gleaned from the way they behave.

In order for an adjective like "catholic" to be applied to a noun, the adjective already needs to exist. In this case it signified breadth of scope, something varied having been glommed into something homogenous. What were those varieties? One way to approach the question is to look at the paraphernalia, some of which is ancient enough to be identified as predating Christianity. Whatever it's called now, previously it was called something else. A statue purporting to be Mary exemplifies this quite well. God has a rhetorical question on exactly that subject:

Jeremiah 7:11, 18 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD . . . The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Queen of Heaven is a title given to "Mary" and one with strong provenance – but nothing to do with Jesus. It's one of the things merged into a new catholic whole. Now unless you think Christianity is itself that process, blending elements from multiple pagan temples and coming up with a new name over a few centuries for some reason, clearly the Queen of Heaven nonsense is just that. Nonsense. And no Jesus would ever endorse such traditions. If worship, veneration, adoration or whatever you call it is part of what you call "Christianity" in this case, the belief system you've cooked up has no validity, other than provoking God to anger. Is this the message you want to deliver to your witches during Walpurgisnacht?

[Romeo Rovagnati]

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I'm still alive. I've escaped the woods before the witches attempted to invite me to an orgy.

I will come with better equipment the next time.

[Dennis Lukes]

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I'm still alive. I've escaped the woods before the witches attempted to invite me to an orgy.

I will come with better equipment the next time.

They weren't going to hurt you, they recognized you as a fellow servant of Satan and invited you to commune with them in darkness.

[Roland]

Re: Should Christians do Witch Hunting during Walpurgisnacht?

I'm still alive. I've escaped the woods before the witches attempted to invite me to an orgy.

I think you will be allowed a sweet little lie here. I do want to know about your Romeo and Juliets escapades over there in the woods. Sounds like an exiting story.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Are you saying he invited himself?

[handmaiden]

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I'm still alive. I've escaped the woods before the witches attempted to invite me to an orgy.

I will come with better equipment the next time.

Pray tell, just which sort of "equipment"--improved or otherwise--is required for an orgy?

[MitzaLizalor]

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Walpurgisnacht sounds like communist halloween so probably a bat costume or other large bird?

[Romeo Rovagnati]

It's never too late to stop witchcraft during the Workers' Day. But i suggest this year a non-violent way: prayer-

[Johny Joe Hold]

It's never too late to stop witchcraft during the Workers' Day. But i suggest this year a non-violent way: prayer-

If we want to get rid of witches, why not have them get chummy with priests? Like have them be altar witches instead of altar boys. They will run.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Workers' Day.

Huh? I thought the idea was to not have "workers" at all but to replace them with machines. Vatican residents after all don't work, simply extorting the faithful to finance an imported servant caste. It doesn't really matter how food (for instance) is produced: by hoe & scythe or autonomous tractor. An old steam powered tractor could replace twenty workers. Modern machinery does the work of hundreds in an afternoon – but they both require drivers. Now that they're redundant and your food can be delivered by drones, why would you want workers guzzling resources?

Last week I was talking with someone who said you'd never get robots because they lacked a critical feature. She didn't say what that feature was but it doesn't matter: any feature you desired could be added to the "Mk II Vatican Robot" and she said they're getting very realistic. Now clearly I'm not suggesting robot cardinals; any such machine would close the joint down immediately, releasing a volcano of resources (presumably to make more robots) but mechanical Swiss guards would be a goer.

Where do they reside, btw?

But mechanical witches would fall in the same category as cardinals. From your perspective they lack certain critical features essential to their performance. Have you ever met a witch?

I Samuel 28:8, 11 Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee . . . Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.

[Madame Frottage]

Re: Should Christians do Witch Hunting during Walpurgisnacht?

Walpurgisnacht sounds like communist halloween so probably a bat costume or other large bird?

Or how about dressing as Joseph Stalin cosplaying as Dr. Frank-N-Furter?

[MitzaLizalor]

I thought the chicken costume was quite imaginative but Stalin was not imaginative at all. Engels maybe had some idea what he was talking about – he did live in the real world, after all. Walpurgisnacht, currently being celebrated, clearly derives from heresies such as "relics" (I just looked that up) and the idea that deceased persons can somehow be made "saints," necessitating that previously they were not.

Psalm 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud in their beds.

Clearly the real are joyful right now, singing aloud in bed. They didn't die and wait several centuries for a sorcerer to mumble gibberish in order to be saints. Nobody dying not already a saint gets to become one later, life on earth being expressly for that purpose.

Sorcerers, witches, soothsayers, warlocks, crystal gurus, wizards and the like DO need to be addressed. These are easy enough to identify simply by reading God's definitions. Assigning them to serve as idolatrous assistants to others of their ilk may or may not work – it's not for me to say. As a "thought experiment" however, what do you think would happen if a priest went to assist in a crystal energy workshop?

I don't know who Doctor Furter is.