They've always lied about their history

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/scientology_and_4.php

An academic takes a good look at the relationship between Scientology and the occult...

For more information on Scientology, visit:
The Secrets of Scientology
and http://www.xenu.net/

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Tsk, tsk, tsk

Harry Potter and the “Dark Order”

Sometimes tools are just tools, eyeglasses just eyeglasses and stairs just stairs. But you won't be able tell him that...

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This is

an interesting sounding book despite its failings.

Into the Weird: Mitch Horowitz unleashes America’s occult past.

Those of the religiously Puritanical persuasion will be upset to hear people suggest that they're not the only ones to influence early U.S. history.

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So,

all those beautiful medieval cathedrals with labyrinths (ie. the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth pictured here) are occult?

The Labyrinth Journey: Walking the Path to Fulfillment?

I hesitate to comment that every ancient civilization, many older than our father Abraham, also had a flood myth, and a creation myth, some of the details of which were very similar to the Old Testament stories of the same events. Does that mean the Bible is occult, or at least pagan? What about Christmas and Easter? Can the Cnristian faith take something with pagan roots and 'Christianize' it? There's no doubt that some Christians try to grab onto every new thing that comes out and make it part of their Christian 'practice'. I'm not sure that in this case there might not be some sort or parallel history...

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Alas,

the way this article is presented makes the Catholic author sound like a believer trying to sound objective - everything presented as 'some people believe, some people think' - for the whole article, with no mention of any disbelief in the things but only the possibility of them, and then a disclaimer in the last line...

Occult Watch: New Indiana Movie Puts Focus On Skull, Year 2012, And Number 11

Not too many fervent Catholics would have given it much thought until this popular author brought it up. No, I don't believe in numerology...