All this talk of religions I've seen lately: why do you who read this think that modern pagans feel the need to be so edgy with their practice? By edgy, I mean the material trappings of what people call occult with all the daggers and robes, candles, etc.
In my experience such people are like an inversion of nominal Christians who love the feel-good music and the lovey-dovey charity stuff, but don't care about the question of hellfire and casting out demons, etc.