Talk:Magic Tab/@comment-69.140.149.152-20130625204349/@comment-24.107.7.208-20151219012354

The pentagram probably has origins in other shit. Satanists aren't actually a real thing either. Not the way that Christians imagine an evil anti-Christian religion that worships Satan. Actual LeVeyan "Satanists" call themselves that precisely because it is subversive and theatrical.

Christianity and Christians just have a very self-centered worldview and were such a dominant religion in Western history for such a long time that they treat their theology as more real than anything else. Technically, even "magic" is entirely what you call the superstitions of other people's religions. But Christianity also has more than its fair share of lucky charms and saints and blessings which would basically be "magic" to an outside observer. It's part of why calling the Egyptian Book of the Dead a grimoire is silly. It was more a scriptural piece for ancient Egyptian religion.