NBC is currently showing 'Dealing with the Devil' as a run-up to revelations. In it they're showing an exorcism of an american man by several baptists exorcism specialists.

Regardless of one's personal beliefs about demons, possession and NBC (West Wing is their only saving grace) in general, I am particularly annoyed by this program, because for some reason they keep feeling it neccesary to show a spinning pentacle every now and then as a segue from one scene to another, usually with a voice over such as 'They say the Devil never sleeps'.

They could have at least inverted it, in the interests of (at least a little) accuracy, but no, they would rather continue to perpetuate the myth that Wicca=Satanism.

If they did the same voiceover while spinning the Star of David (the symbol of the Jewish faith. The Jews if you recall, are supposed to have killed Christ.), there would be an outcry.

But I predict the incident will pass unnoticed by the country at large because we don't object to our faith being distorted and maligned in this way. We're used to it, and it seems that every time some progress is made in enlightening people to the difference between Wicca and Devil-worship, it is swept away by some ill-thought out mass-market brain-destroying hyperbole.

I don't expect any action. I don't expect any apology from NBC.

I just needed to rant, so that's done, and I can check it off my list.