Hi Tom.
I understand where the believe comes from, but having been at least bought
up a christian with a very different mentality it has just plane never made
sense to me on a religious or personal level. I will admit the first time i
met a practicing pagan (actually secretary of the British Wicken
association), who freely and openly talked about spells i was a little
disquieted, but when she explained that in pagan belief a "spell" is simply
a practical or symbolic method of praying it made a lot more sense, indeed
according to her a spell could be as simple as pouring your troubles into a
cup of water and pouring them out on the ground.
Again though her beliefs I don't particularly see as having anything to do
with harry potter, D&D or anything else anymore than I see the clerric's god
enspired spells in D&D having any baring on real religious practices at all,
the two things are just in entirely separate compartments mentally which is
why I find the idea of people who confuse the two utterly strange.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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