Witchcraft: A Neopagan Religion

Witchcraft, a neopagan religion that is in many ways derived from pre-Christian and other prehistoric religions, has gained popularity in recent years. Since ancient times, people have believed that witches hold the power to influence the body, mind, and one’s possessions. Many of these witches have been accused of being malicious. The witches supposedly used their power to cause disease, make animals sick, and even cause people to have bad luck or suddenly die. As with any potential major threat to society, many people took action. A large outbreak of hysteria followed by mass execution took place in Europe and America as early as the fourteen-hundreds, and continued up until the late seventeen-hundreds. Some of the most popular witch trials

The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2014, shows that there are a growing number of religiously unaffiliated people in the United States. Over seventy percent of people who identified as being religiously affiliated agreed that “many religions can lead to eternal life”. Michael Lindsay, the assistant director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University said, “It’s not that American’s don’t believe in anything. It’s that we believe in everything. We aren’t religious purists or dogmatists.” Over the hundreds of years since the United States has been founded, people have been immigrating to the United States. When people immigrated, they brought their religion with them. As more people came to the United States, the number of people affiliated with minority religions grew and people gradually became more tolerant. The culture in America today is simply not the same as it was in Puritan New England hundreds of years

It was written by James Madison as a response to calls for greater protection for individuals. Madison was greatly influenced by the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The Bill of Rights functions as a limitation on the amount of power that the government has in regulating certain civil liberties. In 1789, the House approved seventeen amendments, the Senate approved 12, and ten of those twelve were quickly ratified by the states. The Bill of Rights protects many rights, such as the right to a well regulated militia, to keep and bear arms, and the right to a speedy and fair trial. The second amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This amendment gave people the freedom to practice whatever religion they wish, including