This has to take the cake for bizarre conspiracy theories. Apparently, we witches control the world through the Illuminati. The author is good enough to let the Jews off the hook Oh yeah, we are also apparently using rock 'n roll to brainwash people, and we started Jesus rock. (I think that someone might be not keeping up on their meds.
Here is the opening quote:
"ROTHSCHILDS RULE W/DRUID WITCHES"
SAID DEFECTORBy: Henry Makow
Halloween is an appropriate time to learn that a "Grand Druid Council" of 13 "Witches" control the Illuminati, and meets eight times annually on the "Witches' Sabbaths" (incl. Halloween) when millions of occult practitioners engage in orgies, which for some may involve human sacrifice.
My source is the highest Illuminati defector in history, a Witch High Priest, a member of the Council of Thirteen, and part of the Collins Illuminati bloodline that brought Witchcraft to the US in the 17th Century.
He casts the Illuminati as a vast, highly organized and powerful occult conspiracy that holds mankind in a satanic vice.
The Illuminati are "a thousand conspiracies operating in parallel," he says. For example, the vows and initiation rites of witchcraft closely mirror Freemasonry.
His name is John Todd (also Cristopher Kollyns). In 1972, when Todd was "saved," and exposed the Illuminati, he ruled a 13-state US region consisting of 5000 covens, i.e. totalling 65,000 priests and priestesses. That's just the ministers, not the congregation.
First off, Druids and Witches are both examples of Pagans, but they are NOT the same thing, nor is one a subset of the other. That would be like talking about Baptist Catholics. Baptists and Catholics are separate subsets of Christians. (Do I need to draw a Venn diagram here??)
No, we don't hold orgies for the sabbats (or at all, that I have heard of) and nope, no human sacrifice. If we are lucky, there is a potluck aftera ritual. (Crap! I forgot to send a notice that we were considering doing a snack sort of potluck after the Samhain ritual on Saturday afternoon. Oh well.
Furthermore, Pagans in general give life to the concept of disorganized religion. What I like about my faith tradition is that it is organic and non-dogmatic. If the Abrahamic sorts want heirarchy and big time orthodoxy, more to them. It's just not my bag, and I think the vast majority of my fellow Pagans agree.
And no, Pagans have nothing to do with Satanism, just like Christians don't have anything to do with Shiite Islam, even though both are not Sunni Islam. (A is not B and C is not B, but it does not follow therefore that A and C. Again, do I need a diagram here.)
Oh well, maybe this is some sort of satire. I certainly got a chuckle out of it.
I want to be in the Pentaverate. And I want a scepter and orb.