Originally posted by Selphie
I was awakened the other week, and am extremely interested in this religion. I'm very excited to practice it even more, I've been learning so much.
I used to be interested in it but frankly im not really impressed. I kinda got the impression that the guy who created it just got different aspects of different religons and just mashed them together and tried to make it look cool.
Wiccans also tend to have lack of reasearch, sometimes it seems they just blantantly mix stuff up. I mean when you practice a religon you want to know where they are getting their information from. basically its seems like they just made stuff up or it seems you can't really see where the source of the religon lies because they just mix everything together.
However religion is what you make it.
Originally posted by Phantom Zone
I used to be interested in it but frankly im not really impressed. I kinda got the impression that the guy who created it just got different aspects of different religons and just mashed them together and tried to make it look cool.Wiccans also tend to have lack of reasearch, sometimes it seems they just blantantly mix stuff up. I mean when you practice a religon you want to know where they are getting their information from. basically its seems like they just made stuff up or it seems you can't really see where the source of the religon lies because they just mix everything together.
However religion is what you make it.
Yeah, I hear where you're coming from. I always had interest, but never had the desire to really explore into it until now. That's also why I've been doing a lot of my own research into it, rather than just listening to what another random Wiccan will say, 'cause you never know how educated they really are about it.
Originally posted by Selphie
Yeah, I hear where you're coming from. I always had interest, but never had the desire to really explore into it until now. That's also why I've been doing a lot of my own research into it, rather than just listening to what another random Wiccan will say, 'cause you never know how educated they really are about it.
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Originally posted by RavenNightstar
Brightest blessings everyone,I know there are many Christians & Catholics who do not consider Wiccanism a religion, but I would like to ask you all how that could be? I am not starting a fight, or a heating discussion, I'm just curious!
Blessed be,
In the words of Saruman the White....
"Burn It"
I've gotten really interested in Wicca lately. I'm Irish and feel like Celtic culture was abandoned when Christianity came to western Europe. There's barely any of it left. Halloween is really the only thing left.
I don't practice Wicca and I don't believe in its theology, i just find it interesting. And as I understand it most who practice now don't literally believe in the gods. I do like environmental aspect of the religion, and its only real moral law is the universal Golden Rule.
The people who akin it to occult/satanism are ignorant and obviously don't know anything about the religion other than the fact that it isn't Christian, which in their minds means evil.
Originally posted by cococryspies
I've gotten really interested in Wicca lately. I'm Irish and feel like Celtic culture was abandoned when Christianity came to western Europe. There's barely any of it left. Halloween is really the only thing left.I don't practice Wicca and I don't believe in its theology, i just find it interesting. And as I understand it most who practice now don't literally believe in the gods. I do like environmental aspect of the religion, and its only real moral law is the universal Golden Rule.
The people who akin it to occult/satanism are ignorant and obviously don't know anything about the religion other than the fact that it isn't Christian, which in their minds means evil.
If you're interested in Celtic culture I would advice looking into Celtic Reconstructionism, Wicca isn't essentialy Celtic it just mixes everything together.
Originally posted by cococryspiesVery true. It is the Golden Rule and yes Christians call everything they don't understand evil. I don't practice it either, but read a lot about it and found it very interesting. It even blends karma in it. It always focuses on the "good," not the bad or you'll be repaid back 10 fold. I think that is a good belief in doing good unto others.
I've gotten really interested in Wicca lately. I'm Irish and feel like Celtic culture was abandoned when Christianity came to western Europe. There's barely any of it left. Halloween is really the only thing left.I don't practice Wicca and I don't believe in its theology, i just find it interesting. And as I understand it most who practice now don't literally believe in the gods. I do like environmental aspect of the religion, and its only real moral law is the universal Golden Rule.
The people who akin it to occult/satanism are ignorant and obviously don't know anything about the religion other than the fact that it isn't Christian, which in their minds means evil.
Originally posted by Deja~vu
Very true. It is the Golden Rule and yes Christians call everything they don't understand evil. I don't practice it either, but read a lot about it and found it very interesting. It even blends karma in it. It always focuses on the "good," not the bad or you'll be repaid back 10 fold. I think that is a good belief in doing good unto others.
I don't know understand the mechanics of my car engine...but I don't think its evil....
One thing I've noticed is that people in the western world find the rituals in New Age religions like Wicca very weird, yet they never stop to think how strange Christian rituals would be to an outsider?
Eating bread that's supposed to be the body of God?
Dragging an evergreen tree into you house and putting crappy plastic ornaments all over it? (Which by the way is a pagan ritual, minus the plastic ornaments)
And what's with the Pope's hat?
Originally posted by cococryspies
One thing I've noticed is that people in the western world find the rituals in New Age religions like Wicca very weird, yet they never stop to think how strange Christian rituals would be to an outsider?
Yes they do. Click around on a few threads here, it's far from unheard of for people to try being more objective. And, personally, I don't find Wicca fundamentally wierd, I just don't think many of its followers are serious about what they're doing.
Originally posted by cococryspies
Eating bread that's supposed to be the body of God?
Symbolic, unless you're Catholic.
Originally posted by cococryspies
Dragging an evergreen tree into you house and putting crappy plastic ornaments all over it? (Which by the way is a pagan ritual, minus the plastic ornaments)
What would you do with evergreen trees?
Originally posted by cococryspies
And what's with the Pope's hat?
Hides the antenna.
Originally posted by Deja~vu
Christians call everything they don't understand evil.
So not true...many Christians believe that you should never down another religion...many Christians also know that their very own religion has been twisted by the laws & deeds of man...so it would be hypocricy to call another religion evil...(possibly excluding satanism..that one can get a little extreme and goes directly against God I don't know much about it so I'm keeping hush on that one as what little research Ive done on it churns my stomach) But its unfair to say that about Christians IMO...None have had a "book" handed down from God or any gods for that matter that is unchangeable by man...(if that had happened there would be only one true religion and "then" any others could be called evil) even the 10 commandments have been changed by man...so NO religion IMO is without its evils...just my opinion truly not bashing on u deja vu...wouldn't bash on you as I like your user name to much..lol..plus you weren't the first to say it..and won't be the last