Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion Essay

Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion Essay

Chapter 5, in the book, “Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion really made me think more

about different kind of religions that are out in the world and religions that I didn’t know about.

This Chapter 5, about drugs and religion, made me really thing and understand other peoples

views of religion. Technically, I don’t believe anything in the Chapter and I don’t understand

how people relate drugs ( which I believe is the devils product) with a religion. I guess its

something they believe in and that’s why it’s a religion. The chapter made me better understand

that religion and magic can be a number of things. The reading gave me the understanding that

if you believe in something and do it for a certain reason such as Coleridge, who took opium for

a toothache and then became addicted to the drug, according to Lehmann 184, then it is ok and

is a religion or magic. I think that is really stupid. The chapter made me understand a lot of

things about religion and magic, but I’m not sure if I’m interpreting the reading in the right way.

Chapter 5 stated to me that the use of drugs is a religion or magic and that it is ok to use. Drugs

are used to help people with problems in their life according to the reading in Chapter 5. Drugs

are like magic it helps you keep going in life, it helps with depression, it helps with anxiety, it

makes you feel more complete, all of these are reasons of using drugs. Drugs just make you feel

like a totally completely different and free person. Before I read this Chapter I’m think that

religions are all good things and magic was bad things. However, by reading this information

about drugs