[quote=@HeySeuss]
There are [b]religious lobbies[/b] and civil unrest to consider, as well as containing all the spiritual events that happen with magic absent an apparent actor, ie a person using it.
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How deep do you want to go with this, though? Because I was thinking about this before, and it relates back to the source of magic, its purpose, and conspiracy. If there is any religious lobby involved in any shady dealings concerning this appearance of magic, then it would be Zionism. They would probably sway opinion in their favor by claiming magic to be God's gift to the 'chosen people', and thereby proclaim any non-jewish Emergent antisemitic and an enemy of the state. Zionists are already hated by a plethora of different secular Jewish groups, religions, and other groups of people for their violence and racism. However, this will come close to that "well-oiled supernatural shadow government" that you wanted to avoid, even if it's not entirely the same thing.