Fear Mongering

I am a member of a few online Pagan communities, I am not technically a Pagan myself, but these communities are a good source of information on subjects which I like to research. I usually do not get involved in the forums, I simply read, take note, and move on. But, recently I came across a discussion posted by a young Wiccan, who was a little distraught, if not confused by something he was handed one day by a witnessing Christian. Eventually he just laughed it off, but as I read this pamphlet, I became more and more appalled at the tactics these so called "righteous" people are resorting to. Not only was I disgusted, memories dredged up of my days living on the "bible belt" came swarming into my mind, and those of the pamphlets that forever floated around me, trying to bite my very soul, taint me with its lies and fear inducing tactics.

The pamphlet begins with this :
There is a renewed interest in witchcraft, demonism, fortune telling, astrology and every form of occultism. Sad to say, many people do not know what the Bible teaches on this important subject. Through this brief tract, we purpose to inform people of the great danger of this occult, in the light of God's Word.
God commanded Israel to put to death all those who practiced sorcery or witchcraft.
"Thou shall not suffer a witch to live." Exodus 22:18
These people, are handing out pamphlets that condone murder of those that do not believe as they do. Its a threat to the very existence of a free thinking individual.

The Bible teaches that those who seek to communicate with spirits or with the dead, become defiled and are unfit to appear before God to worship Him. "Regard not them that have familiar spirits (mediums), neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:31.
I would assume that it also pertains to watching a psychic on t.v., that which defiles the human soul, which wasn't good enough to begin with and must repent with every waking movement that the flesh happens to make.. including thoughts, apparently. And on top of that, not worthy to worship, so you are unfit for slavery.

God cuts off from among His people all who turn to mediums for help. "And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards, to go to whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people." Leviticus 20:6.
According to this, a grieving mother who goes to a medium for some form of closure, is a whore(which that term doesn't even apply) who will been shunned by the community of these "righteous" people, because she wants to know that her child has moved on to a better place. God forbid.

Death by stoning was God's sentence on any man or woman who called up spirits. "A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:27
According to this, they have a right to clobber me to death with huge fucking rocks because I can "see" things that they cannot. I do not even need to add anything else...

Witchcraft, fortunetelling, crystal reading, necromancy, an palmistry are related to spiritism and are strongly condemned by God. "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee . . . For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners, but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do." Deuteromony 18:10-12, 14.
It makes me think of when God throws Adam and Eve out of Eden due to the fact that they eat the fruit, and become more like God(s). This is, as always, one of the fear tactics they use. God does not want you to be able to see these things for yourself, you should always seek his help and never be the leading light in your own life. It is, by far, one of the worst ways to keep sheep in line, by telling them that they will die a horrible death by stoning and then burn for eternity in hell for thinking for themselves, or seeking out the help of another individual. God should be number one in your life, above you, above your children and above anyone else that you come across in your life. It sounds like this God character, has some serious insecurities. Samuel's most effective way of impressing upon King Saul the enormity of his sin of disobedience was by likening it to witchcraft. "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft . . ." I Samuel 15:23.
Meaning you should be killed for thinking your own thoughts..
It is an insult to God to consult mediums when you can inquire of Him. "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this work, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:19, 20. Again, if a medium, who should be burned at the stake, tells you something that disagrees with the word, they are evil and are tainting you with their rebellious thinking.

I am utterly ashamed of these people. This very "self righteous" thinking, plagues the foundations of today's society, forcing us to believe that we are unclean and should be punished for not falling in line with what many believe to be the only way to live and think. It urks me to the core that I am judged by these pricks for thinking "unclean thoughts", I am a human being.. I am not a slave to anyone else's point of view.
To think, slavery is frowned upon, but somehow, these religious pamphlets are allowed to obtain rules and regulations for your every thought and breath, that condones murder of an individual who's morals don't fit with theirs... you have to believe that you are not good enough to run your own life, that you have to serve a master who is much wiser and better than you, if that is not slavery, then what is?