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Originally Posted by Medusa99
Are you sure she's not schizophrenic or have a schizoid personality disorder? This sounds a lot like the stuff my brother believed (he was a diagnosed schizophrenic). Schizophrenics often believe the government/police/others are out to get them, and if Wicca is an important part of her life, this perception very well could manifest itself in the religious part of her life.
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Well, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. (I know I worded that wrong...)
A few years ago, when money came to town primarily in the pockets of Catholics, a local church printed up a flyer listing all the 'known' Catholics and the businesses they were involved with in an attempt to get their parish to avoid patronizing those businesses. (I know it sounds like a bad sub-plot to a Castle Rock novel, but it's all too true.)
As far as the Wiccan thing is concerned. I've met both sides of the spectrum. On the one side, a good friend of mine, who I used to work with, didn't tell me for years that he and his family were practicing Wiccans. On the other side, I've met quite a few painfully overt Wiccans (usually teenage girls and angsty young men), who use the religion as an excuse to thumb their nose at the heavily Christian society in the area. I mean, a girl in one of my classes professed both being a Wiccan and irrational disdain for nature, which, if I understand correctly, seems to stand at odds with the religion.