Wicca. The main stream media scapegoat.

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Reporters love to sensationalize their story these days. After all, it's not news, per se that they're selling, but entertainment. A murder outside of Albuquerque has more audience appeal if they use the words "stabbed with a Wicca dagger" instead of just saying that the victim was stabbed multiple times. They got to keep those ratings up and so what if some little religion gets persecuted because of their reporting, right? Even the media in Canada wants to get in on the 'let's make Wicca look like a bunch of crazies' band-wagon by naming a former mental health patient as a Wiccan simply because he calls himself that. Would this newspaper give the headline 'Christian Back In Court' if the defendant claimed to be a practicing Christian while dressed up as a popular horror show host or Alice Cooper? Hell no! For some reason it's A-Okay for Wiccans to be treated in this manner. It's even become entertainment for Christians to view a realistic re-enactment of the Burning Times, complete with a "specially designed and concocted burning flesh smell", just for Easter! These are scary times we live in and people are looking for scapegoats for their misfortune. There are places in the world that still carry death sentences for fabricated 'evidence' of witchcraft. Unless we are vigilant, the Burning Times, or it's modern equivalent genocide, may be upon us again.