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Spouting Thomas's avatar

>I find it interesting that it is disproportionately women raised Catholic who are interested in this kind of thing.

Seeing as how this is a story from the UK, I'm wondering if there's something specific to Roman Catholicism here, or if the real story is that witchcraft appeals more to apostates than the never-religious, and Roman Catholicism is supplying apostates while the CoE is not because England's post-Protestant population barely grew up with religion in the first place.

One of my recurring observations is that established Protestant churches are the most degenerate form of church polity. My current thesis is that Protestantism requires a spirit of Semper Reformanda in order to function, and Semper Reformanda can't operate in the context of an established church. RCC and EO rely on inertia rather than Semper Reformanda to refrain from declining into total degeneracy, so they outperformed Protestantism in post-WW2 Europe. See, for example, the Netherlands becoming in practice more Catholic than Protestant in the late 20th.

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Re: Disability

I think you will find this in any field where there are generous benefits. Think public sector fields and a few private sector fields too. The saying of if you give an inch, they take a mile applies here.

I’ve encountered employees that had to use FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) for various purposes such as child birth, surgery, and caring for a loved one. Perfectly legit and necessary. Yet, there have been other instances that weren’t quite to that level. This has led to the term Friday Monday Leave Act.

During my work life, I got to meet an insurance agent, now deceased, who was a heck of a guy. He sold accident, life, and disability type insurance for unnamed company constantly in tv ads. He largely focused on public sector employees. He did very well for himself.

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