Mary Christine Erikson wrote:
> 
> Life can imitate art, but art also imitates life and it makes a vicious
> or otherwise circle. For example, consider the spread of fads like
> disco, which is reflected in some movies, which kept people coming
> until the fad burned out.

Well, in my experience, it was actually 
the other way around with disco; it was 
popular, and then they made a movie 
about it and all the suburbanoids 
starting crowding the discos until you 
couldn't even snort your coke in peace 
and so we moved on to punk.:)

Re this book by the Frosts, I am not 
sure what you are trying to prove with 
it. These people can consider themselves 
to be the popes of Wicca all they want. 
That is not how others consider them.

If I might give an example from another 
religious milieu. Ketubot 11b of the 
Talmud remarks that if a male adult has 
intercourse with a girl under the age of 
3, it is as if he poked her in the eye. 
Does that mean that Judaism tolerates 
the sexual assault of three-year-old 
girls? Or even that it ever did? Does 
that mean that Jewish men read the 
Talmud and think, "Hmm. This says it's 
okay if I sexually assault my toddler 
daughter" and go do it? Certainly many 
antisemitic sites maintain those ideas 
based on this passage, and according to 
the way you are analyzing this work by 
the Frosts, you too are obliged to 
consider that Judaism views the rape of 
children as inconsequential, that Jews 
read this stuff and get ideas about what 
to do with little girls, and that the 
conclusions of antisemites about sexual 
predation of Jews might well be 
justified. Where there's smoke, there's 
fire, right?

Harry Roth