I come from a Christian background where spiritual warfare is an important, yet widely misunderstood, aspect of religious practice. Within this practice such things as Satanism, witchcraft, discerning of spirits, exorcising of demons are elements of which one need to have knowledge in order to wage spiritual warfare. When I were much younger, still in high school, I used to have a healthy interest in these elements (one of my favorite books were one on how to recognize Satanism by a detective Kobus Jonker) and at times practiced spiritual warfare both on my own and with some friends. In the mean time much of my ideas around the subject changed as I learned and understood more. What I thought of as 'witchcraft' were a very childish view which could basically be summarized in the idea that any supernatural 'power' which did not conform to the conservative Christian idea of or from God and the Holy Spirit; had, by default, have to be evil. I did not, as yet, made compariso...
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