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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only wiccan I know got committed to a mental institute and was stripped of her parental rights [/quote]

PP who first mentioned the complicated relationship between mental illness and religion here.

It is also worth pointing out that there is a history, globally, of persecuting folks with non-mainstream religious practices. Sometimes this persecution seems just to most people, in that we as a culture generally frown on actual ritual sacrifice as animal cruelty and don't approve of children (including physically mature teenagers, who are still children in they eye of the Western culture in which most of us live) participating in certain adult types of ritual even within the mainstream. We wish to protect innocents from harmful practices, and when someone's spiritual practice falls outside of what we consider to be safe, sure, kids get taken away. I don't find pagan or Wiccan spiritual practice any more dangerous than any other spiritual practice. Certainly the ways certain religions relate to children are more dangerous, physically and psychologically, than the OP's lighting candles and meditation. There have also been issues in the Pagan community (which is about as specific as "the Black community" or "the gay community") involving sexual relationships with minors (sometimes teenagers who are physically mature but legally under age, sometimes pre-pubescent children. This is hardly a Pagan problem, though. Look at instances of child brides in conservative Islamic faiths.

In any case, your acquaintance may have legitimate issues but there are many documented instances of Pagan parents facing legal issues as a result of their religious practice being deemed by child welfare services to be dangerous to children. [/quote]

PP, you speak a beautiful explanation again. Thank you![/quote]

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