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Sarah Michelle Gellar's hit show 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' has been blamed for 50,000 women abandoning traditional Christian religions to study paganism.

The study's author Dr Kristin Aune says: "Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In short, women are abandoning the church."
(Examiner)

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 04:10:51 PM EST
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And here you can see her publications list.

And here is her book "Single Women: Challenge to the Church?"

Sounds like Dr. Kristin Aune is a nutter.

by ATinNM on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 04:43:33 PM EST
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You have to be a nutter (and ignorant to boot) to think that Buffy has anything to do with Wicca. Except maybe "empowering women".

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 03:43:13 AM EST
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Some entertaining comments over at the Torygraph.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:20:35 AM EST
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Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas host an annual conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Academics oriented towards religious institutions seem to find a lot of interesting and useful religious symbolism there.

(Ouichata is the French orthographic version of the ancient mountains south of the Ozarks that in English orthography are known as Wichita, as in Wichita Falls, Texas and Wichita, Kansas.  A portion of the Ouichatas has been found in the foothills of the Andes in Argentina.  The word Arkansas is from Kumquat first Americans transliterated into French and pronounced Ar kan SAW.  In Kansas they never spoke French and insist that the river be called the Ar KAN sas River.)

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 10:20:48 PM EST
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