Of witchcraft was real, should it be legal?

[DaleCooper]

Back in the day my friends and I would play with the Ouija board. The apparent spirits would communicate prolonged messages to us and it terrified my friends. Even to this day, some of them are still disturbed by it and one of them even cites it as his reason for placing his faith in the God of the Bible. I haven't had the heart to tell them all that I was the one moving the planchette.

[DaleCooper]

Witchcraft is real and it should be illegal

It's real and it's spectacular.

[DaleCooper]

This brings up an interesting hypothetical. If the Christian God were proven real, should prayer be legal?

Is there a functional difference between praying for someone' death and casting a spell so that they die?

That is a really interesting hypothetical! I'd never thought about this, but the people who want witchcraft to be illegal seem to be basically granting that the power of prayer is nonexistent, because praying for death and destruction (which plenty of the more mean-spirited believers do) is essentially the Abrahamic-faith version of a witch casting a spell.

Obviously it's all crackpot, but that's an interesting consideration.