But I could be wrong.

Remember that just because ancient spell commands the spirits to do a specific thing, that doesn't mean that it will work as advertised. However, I am not disputing that you or anyone else can or has made the magic work. I have no experience with it.

My magic is more personally transformative than politically transformative. That makes me either very wise or a blind idiot who is missing the bigger picture.

I have been accused of both.

This statement is just factually wrong.

Muthee has nothing to do with the child witch cases. The child witch cases are centered in the Cross River region of Nigeria while Muthee's ministry operates in Kenya. Muthee has no direct ties to the folks involved in the child witchcraft stuff, nor has he ever been accused of branding children as witches.

Two different people, two different countries, two different flavors of African Christianity. Each which really need to be taken on their own terms before any comparisons get made.

My point was this:

Magicians need to be more proactive. If you look at the Lemegeton's goetia, there are spirits listed with attributes sufficient to provide a magician with advanced warning of any kind of social movement that would result in ending up in an internment camp, or getting lynched for that matter. Purson springs to mind. A magician should have at least one familiar spirit similar to Purson who keeps him posted on what's going on in the world that will result in any kind of personal harm.

Furthermore, the spirits in the Lem's Goetia provide things like favor with the ruling princes, and many ways of manipulating the governance of our country, state, city, or neighborhood. It shouldn't get to a point where a modern night of broken glass can manifest.

You're talking about reacting to an already-existing mob of fascist idiots. I'm talking about eliminating the Vril Society before it can be used by a charismatic lunatic to create the kind of situation that led to WWII.

"have to fire a gun, my "spells" will already have failed and I would deserve to be burned. If there's anything to this stuff we believe, and I know there is, then there's no excuse for anyone who has an inkling of how magic works to end up in a situation where they will fall victim to witch burner."

You are not thinking there. Some of the finest mages in history (who could make you or me looking like a fluffy bunny) have be overpowered by the tide of human ignorance because they were as arrogant as your statement.

Tell me all about how powerful your magic is when the flames come licking up your feet.

Think bigger than your self, your home, your rights, think bigger. Everything you perceive from the center of your sphere is under your influence, if not your direct command. Work with it, use it, or you will end up a smudge on the horizon. You see the threat, you have the tools: eliminate the threat. It is your duty.