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When a teenager in Austin calls upon Hecate, she is doing more than affirming her identity or tapping into her inner peace or communing with nature. She is calling on a demon. If one believes that demons are real, one must assume the demon hears her call. It might well be the case, however, that a being like Hecate would very much prefer her young acolyte to think in purely postmodern, naturalist, self-affirming terms, and practice witchcraft while leaving intact a fundamentally materialist and rationalist worldview. C. S. Lewis predicted and described this phenomena precisely in his 1942 epistolatory novel, The Screwtape Letters,
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John Daniel Davidson (Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come)