The Netherlands, the country that has legalized everything from prostitution (WARNING: Evil file format! [.pdf]) to euthanasia, is now giving tax breaks to student witches:
"Dutch tax authorities have allowed a woman to deduct the 2,210 euros it cost her to take a one-year course in witchcraft, an inland revenue official said Wednesday.
"The 39-year actress and artist learned how to use crystal balls and prepare herbs, and also spells and other witchcraft skills at the course held in the country’s northwest.
"’The woman used the training in order to start … giving workshops, so she used it to extend her professional knowledge,’ the tax official told Reuters.
"Margarita Roland, who gave the course and whose Web site (http://www.heksehoeve.nl/) [Editor’s note: The site is in Dutch and its URL was published by the source article. –MA] shows her with a broomstick and pointed hat, said she teaches apprentices all they need to know to become a witch, using magic as a force for good.
"’A witch is a wise woman or man who knows about the magic of life in general and the magic of the earth in particular," said Roland, known as the ‘witch of Appelscha’ after her home town."
Does anyone have any idea how the Netherlands became the center of kookiness in Europe?
Okay that is really scary.
Me wonders if this is a spell to shrivel the internal organs of those who partake of it….
“Recept
Appel gebak of appeltaart.
* appels
* Pakje bladerdeeg
* Bruine suiker
* Kaneel
* Rozijnen
* Citroensap”
…You’d think that danish ‘death cookie eaters’ (joke) would be entitled to some serious tax reduction if their nations ‘witches’ can get away with it, wouldn’t you ?
God Bless.
It seems the only decent thing to come out of the netherlands is gothic-pop-rock band Within Temptation.(They sound like how evanescence would sound if they went to Eurovision).
And Pat Buchanan thinks “the Death of the West” will be some kind of tragedy! Actually, “The West” we loved was killed years ago; the people running things in Europe now are the gang that did the killing.
The alliance of Catholics and Reformed known as the Anti-Revolutionary Party led by Abraham Kuyper eventually lost to the secularists – around 100 years ago.
I’ve heard of Kuyper, but I didn’t know he was a major political player.
For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that the tenuous geographic position of the Dutch, with poor natural defences and hardly any natural resources, led it to be incredibly “diplomatic” to maintain its independence and trade connections. And such diplomacy seems to have translated into licentiousness.
The Dutch, up until some half a century ago, were actually quite conservative. But they suddenly changed tack, and whent hey change, they go all out.
Maybe the West deserves an examples of what happens when a modern society eats itself.