I just saw this / it just went off. A basic synopsis is:
The son leaves to join the Air Force and is gone for seven years. While he's gone his mother gets really into Wicca. When he comes home he shocked to to see her in gothic fashions and waring a pentacle. He is now a "devout Christian" and is disturbed by her "picture of the Devil." He is attacked by a spirit and leaves. Later his mother is attacked by "demons" while performing a dedication to Isis. Afterwards the mother abandons Wicca and gets back with her son, who becomes a pastor mistering to those involved in "the occolt."
Did anyone see this, especially Wiccans and witchs? What do you think happened? What is your impression of the choice of putting this one the air as what seems to be pro-Christian / anti-Wicca propaganda -- or just a misled anti-Wicca spin? How much of what happened might have been psychological or spiritual?
2007-10-18 08:11:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think the entire "Hauntings" program is infotainment, and that is is staged. Therefore, I would class this as anti-Wiccan propoganda, deliberately created as such.
It won't make much difference. Those who are called to find us WILL find us, since the desire comes instinctively from deep within -- and that's what counts.
EDITED TO ADD: There are related topics on the Discovery Channel forum (and the name of the program is "A Haunting"):
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4971983318/m/3311954039
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4971983318/m/8111970629#1141970629
EDITED TO ADD 2: If you go to the Internet Movie Database, at
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059513/
you'll find a writeup for this episode -- and yes, the series has actors portraying fictional characters. This makes me really doubt the authenticity of any of it.
2007-10-18 08:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I regularly get attacked by leaves when the wind blows.
It's TV. Only the extremely gullible take the TV seriously, and those aren't the people you want in your life.
Gothic fashions! The least they could do is get a scriptwriter who isn't quite so cheesy and obvious. The groundwork for this sort of show was laid a few years ago with the absurd notion of Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Realising that ghost and UFO sightings could not survive into the digital age, the notion of EVP was introduced to lay the groundwork for the feeble minded to believe that edited sounds and images actually contain supernatural events. They even use mpg artifacts to imply the presence of a ghost! A clever but obvious invention.
Don't sweat it. The people who are glued to their TVs believing this garbage will still be glued to their sets in 10 years believing another set of garbage. They are no threat.
2007-10-18 08:15:01 · answer #2 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why do you assume that it is propoganda at all? Do you find it inconceivable that people convert out of Wicca to Christianity? That someone would at least think they were being attacked by a demon, especially if someone has made suggestions of such a possibility before hand? These thigns do happen. It's entirely possible that this show (which I have no seen) was merely relating the experiences of two people. If this is what the woman believes happened to her, there's no "spin" involved.
2007-10-18 12:08:07 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't personally watch TV. I'll watch a little if I'm really bored and really exhausted all other forms of entertainment, but really television sucks now. Nickelodeon, Disney, and Cartoon Network have all been made horrible and there is really nothing to watch anymore, I can't believe my parents actually PAY for that junk.
2016-05-23 10:40:18 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it me, or has the quality of the programming on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and The Learning Channel taken a huge dive during the past few years?
I don't watch the Learning Channel anymore, and the other two channels not nearly as much as I used to.
2007-10-18 08:25:07 · answer #5 · answered by Darth Cheney 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't watch that kind of crap. Never have & never will. Every religion has its kooks. Wicca is no different. There are a lot of self-proclaimed Wiccans out there that have no clue what being Wiccan means.
2007-10-18 08:16:50 · answer #6 · answered by Keltasia 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is all absurd, including the Discovery Channel. They've shown a marked decline in quality of programming in the last five or so years.
2007-10-18 08:20:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Wow, sounds like it happened just like that. I'll bet none of this was embellished at all. Power to Pagans.
2007-10-18 08:18:09 · answer #8 · answered by Frank B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't hold it against the show, but they do give the soap box to fundie nut cases that think their hauntings are coming from "demons".
2007-10-18 08:31:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like anti wiccan.
2007-10-18 08:15:29 · answer #10 · answered by Maple Sugar 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋