The hashtag #witchtok has accrued more than forty-five billion views on TikTok. Eight million #witchcraft Instagram posts provide details of moon rituals, hexes, tarot cards, herbal potions, and spells. Pages on Reddit such as r/witch (101,000 members) and r/witchcraft (383,000) garner hundreds of daily comments and advice on friendship spells, drying herbs, charging crystals, and candle divination. Melanie Phillips
A Pew study in 2009 found that people who described themselves as liberal were almost twice as likely to say they believe in astrology than self-described conservatives. Melanie Phillips
When man dumped God and assumed his role, this became the agenda of secular idealists who believed they could create paradise on earth. Stalinism is no more, but its legacy endures in new forms. That secular idealism is today channeled into a range of ideologies, all of which replace the biblical belief in a created world by the intention to create the world anew. Melanie Phillips
The main reason for the West’s embrace of self-destructive ideologies is the erosion of religion, specifically, belief in the Jewish and Christian ethics that lie at the very core of the civilization. Melanie Phillips
Intact opposite-sex marriage ensures children of the persistent presence of their joint biological parents; same-sex marriage ensures the opposite. Melanie Phillips
In 1997, the US Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency reported that the most reliable indicator of violent crime in a community was the proportion of fatherless families. Melanie Phillips
In 2021, more babies in England and Wales were born outside marriage than to wedded couples. Official statistics show that 48.7 percent of babies that year were born to a legal couple, falling below the 50 percent threshold for the first time since records began in 1845. Melanie Phillips
Since cohabitations break down far more frequently than marriages, particularly when cohabiting couples have children, the growth of cohabitation has served as an engine of mass fatherlessness. Melanie Phillips
The most important target of these radicals was the most fundamental building block of Western society—the institution of lifelong monogamous marriage. Melanie Phillips
Owing their genesis to the Marxist doctrine that all human relationships consist of a struggle for power, these ideologies set group against group in a struggle for cultural supremacy and an unending spiral of ever-more extreme positions. Melanie Phillips
