I presume you’ve all taken a gander at the Sarah Palin witchcraft video going around, and read some of the attendant kerfuffle about it.

This is the kind of thing that really bothers me about our American religiosity. To the average Joe six-pew, an anti-witchcraft prayer is ‘weird.’ Just like Jeremiah Wright seemed ‘weird’ to many American Christians.

“Joe six-pew,” by the way, is a phrase that I did not invent but which I will now try and use whenever possible.

But those same Christians who think belief in the necessity of being protected from witchcraft is strange see nothing odd about believing in the sanctity of a communion wafer, or that there is a magical man named the father, son and holy ghost.

I guess some things are more supernatural than others.