Reply #1: Good article!

[PurpleChez]

My wife - and, through her, many of our friends - are involved in the academic study of religion, and I've picked up enough from them to know that you're on the mark. I also appreciated your brief discussion of Wicca. I'll admit to a prejudice of my own - I have often joked that most Wiccans (especially here in a college town) adopted their religion primarily to piss off their parents. And when I myself was in school I grew tired of people telling me in one breath that religion (by which they meant mainstream Christianity) was silly and superstitious, and in the next insisting that I just HAD to let them read my tarot cards sometime. Thanks for a reminder that Wicca counts many sincere practitioners among its ranks.