According to a book by two Christian researchers, Wicca – often known as “witchcraft” – is the fastest growing religion in the United States. Marla Alupoaicei and Dillon Burroughs’ book Generation Hex estimates that the number of Wicca practitioners is doubling every thirty months. And it’s not just in places like the West Coast and Salem, Massachusetts either: Wicca is enjoying just as much tremendous popularity in the American South. It has been calculated that by 2012 Wicca will be second only to Christianity as the most practiced faith in America.

I can believe it. Several years ago when I was a reporter in Asheville, I covered something called the “We Still Pray” rally at a local high school’s football stadium. A few days later the pagans of the community said that it wasn’t fair for a publicly-funded facility to cater solely to the Christians, and they threatened to ...