Witchcraft and Faith

 
The Bell Witch
This is a well-documented American ghost story about a family in Robertson County, Tennessee who were haunted by an invisible, shapeshifting entity from 1817 to 1821. The Bell Witch was said to be able to speak, affect the environment, and move with superhuman speed. The Bell Witch Cave and the Bell Family Farm are located near Adams, Tennessee, and are considered to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

Now...

do you believe in witches or witchcraft?

Witchcraft is the practice of using magic or supernatural powers to harm others, or to communicate with demons or evil spirits. It can also refer to a religion or tradition that involves these practices.

I find it interesting that witchcraft can be seen as a religion...  because when one thinks of religion one thinks of Christianity or Islam or Buddhism.  And what is interesting about Christianity is that there are six main groups:

The Church of the East
Oriental Orthodoxy   
Eastern Orthodoxy   
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism 
Restoration

But we don't stop there.  

Protestantism is broken down into the following groups

1. Adventism
2. Anabaptism
1. Amish
2. Apostolic
3. Bruderhof
4. Hutterite
5. Mennonite 
6. River Brethren
7. Schwarzenau Brethren
3. Anglicanism
4. Baptists
5. Lutheranism
6. Methodism 
7. Moravianism
8. Quakerism
9. Pentecostalism 
10. Plymouth Brethren
11. Reformed Christianity
1. Continental Reformed 
2. Presbyterian
3. Evangelical Anglican
4. Congregationalist
5. Reformed Baptist 
12. Waldensianism
    

In short there are TWENTY-FOUR (24) different variations of Protestant Christianity.

I was raised a United Methodist which is different from a regular Methodist but not counted in the above list...  and, when I moved from NC to TN, I came into contact with the BAPTISTS and SOUTHERN BAPTISTS (also not in the list above) and their main doctrine is if you are not a Baptist then you are practicing FALSE CHRISTIANITY...

Southern Baptists do not believe in WITCHCRAFT or WITCHES and have ordered their congregations not to watch HARRY POTTER, at least the church I attended did.

HOWEVER...

witchcraft is part of our heritage and was quite a big deal in SALEM.

But my question is this:

HOW OPEN ARE YOUR BELIEFS???