Gargoyle -- you're right.

I haven't heard much about Jewish people committing suicide, possibly because there little official emphesis on the Afterlife in Judaic teaching (while it sometimes seems to be the one big teaching of Christianity -- especially when Christians are celebrating Easter). This is one major motive of suicide after all: the belief that it will be better 'on the other side'.

I thought you were simply using Judaism as one example of a 'legitimate' religion (as opposed to Wicca, which you clearly believe to be illegimate). The 'direction of my rebuttal', as you put it, was simply to compare the press treatment of mainstream versus non-mainstream details.

And if you want to talk logic and deductive reasoning and reading, I translated your post into one syllogism:

"Following the 'Dark Side' will lead to violence. Wicca is the Dark Side. Therefore, following Wicca will lead to violence."

Am I now to understand you to mean that every religion except Judaism is the 'Dark Side' (since you singled that religion out specifically, rather than being one example among many)?