Why are your writing in daft colors so no one can readthe text properly?
Some consider Football (soccer) a religion, there are more Jedi Knights in the UK than Jews if you go by a recent census (Im one of them🙂).
If your belief has financial backing and power and enough idiots believe in it even though its obviously utter tosh, then you can be a religion. Like the Catholics for example.
Anyone who can read and think normally can see this is total hypocritical and man made, but they have a lot of money and influence so its a religion.
Wiccan hasn´t got backing, no silly book explaining where some one sacrificed himself to himself so that everyone can be forgiven for his mistake in making those people faulty in the first place.
Plus the fact that Wiccan is totally daft, and nothing what witchcraft does can be proven to actually work.
Wicca/Neopaganism
Everyone I've met who's one of these assures me the two are distinct concepts, but nonetheless I tend to lump them both in the same category in my brain. So far my opinions haven't been too high, as it's adherents seem to have double the pretentiousness of most organized religions, and nobody could explain to me why any rational person should believe in them... but maybe i'm just seeing it wrong.
Is there any value to either of these or is it just one more stupid way for teens with attitude to show how anti-christian and rebellious they are?
Re: Wicca/Neopaganism
Originally posted by King Kandy
Everyone I've met who's one of these assures me the two are distinct concepts, but nonetheless I tend to lump them both in the same category in my brain. So far my opinions haven't been too high, as it's adherents seem to have double the pretentiousness of most organized religions, and nobody could explain to me why any rational person should believe in them... but maybe i'm just seeing it wrong.Is there any value to either of these or is it just one more stupid way for teens with attitude to show how anti-christian and rebellious they are?
In general, your last assessment is mostly correct for teenagers. However, there are people who need a religious structure in their life. I am one of these type people, and you may not be one of these people. That doesn't make anyone right of wrong, better or worse. If a person needs a religious structure in their life, but Christianity or other main stream religions are not agreeable to the person, then Wicca or Neopaganism maybe an acceptable alternative. I myself pick Buddhism just because I like it better. That is the point; what do you like?
Re: Wicca/Neopaganism
Originally posted by King Kandy
Everyone I've met who's one of these assures me the two are distinct concepts, but nonetheless I tend to lump them both in the same category in my brain. So far my opinions haven't been too high, as it's adherents seem to have double the pretentiousness of most organized religions, and nobody could explain to me why any rational person should believe in them... but maybe i'm just seeing it wrong.Is there any value to either of these or is it just one more stupid way for teens with attitude to show how anti-christian and rebellious they are?
There are legitimate followings for both but plenty of teenagers do it to be rebellious. I don't think you're going to find them any more appealing than mainstream religion, especially modern Wicca which is infamously attractive to female chauvinists.
The difference between the two, btw, would be that Neo-Paganism is a very broad category which Wicca kinda, sorta, not really part of. Wicca doesn't have an actual tradition is dates back to, it was simply meant to evoke the "feel" of paganism as far as that goes.
Re: Re: Wicca/Neopaganism
Originally posted by ShakyamunisonBook of rules? Nope. List of guidelines? Nope. Judgment day? Leader? Founder? Mission statement? Important holidays? Nope. I don't see any structure.
In general, your last assessment is mostly correct for teenagers. However, there are people who need a religious structure in their life. I am one of these type people, and you may not be one of these people. That doesn't make anyone right of wrong, better or worse. If a person needs a religious structure in their life, but Christianity or other main stream religions are not agreeable to the person, then Wicca or Neopaganism maybe an acceptable alternative. I myself pick Buddhism just because I like it better. That is the point; what do you like?
Only met one wiccan, but she hated structure.