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Many of these practices are widely regarded as [[superstition]] with no functional basis, and thus ineffective - the [[divination]] rituals will provide no insight into the future, the spells have no influence and the demons will not appear. However, the occult does have fervent believers. In 2006 the Anglican Bishop of Bolton implored retailers not to stock traditional Halloween merchandise, saying that 'occult practices should not be condoned, even if they are only being presented in a caricatured, light-hearted form.'<ref>[http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr9106.html Church of England]</ref>
Many of these practices are widely regarded as [[superstition]] with no functional basis, and thus ineffective - the [[divination]] rituals will provide no insight into the future, the spells have no influence and the demons will not appear. However, the occult does have fervent believers. In 2006 the Anglican Bishop of Bolton implored retailers not to stock traditional Halloween merchandise, saying that 'occult practices should not be condoned, even if they are only being presented in a caricatured, light-hearted form.'<ref>[http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr9106.html Church of England]</ref>
== Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure and the occult ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and sociopathy]] and [[Irreligion and superstition]] and [[Atheism and satanic deception]] and [[Atheism and the supernatural]] and [[Atheism and life after death]]
The journal article ''Atheism and the [[occult]]'' published in the ''Journal of Social Sciences'' indicated:
{{Cquote|Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice. The results of canonical discriminant analysis have shown that occultist syndrome in atheists is a component of a kind of sociopathic aggression whose latent structure is defined by materialistic-hedonistic orientation, impulsive aggression and asocial aggression in the positive direction, and altruism in the negative direction. Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice.
(Google translated version of the journal article).<ref>[https://www.bib.irb.hr/410284?rad=410284 Atheism and the occult], Journal of Social Sciences, 32 (2008), 2; 357-366]</ref>}}
A very prevalent view of the occult is that it is Satanic (see also: [[Atheism and satanic deception]]).
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