Wicca and PAganism (witchcraft) a sin or not?

We Pagan are not evil...

'Judge not a person by their creed, color or religion but by their actions alone...'

I thought the word "Pagan" was simply defined as NOT Christian, Jew, or Muslim.

Does that equal evil? 😕

Originally, Pagan was a broad term used by Christians for non-Chirstians.

It has since taken on a more scholarly context.

Originally posted by Alliance
Originally, Pagan was a broad term used by Christians for non-Chirstians.

It has since taken on a more scholarly context.

Indeed, much as everyone who didn't speak a certain tongue of Greek was a barbarian - regardless of the variation in beliefs or motivations of age of culture etc.

It is true it is more scholarly today, though I have noticed that many lectures/authors seem to be moving away from using it as much now. "Traditional cult worship" as opposed to "pagan worship" etc.

Originally posted by dawsey28
I thought the word "Pagan" was simply defined as [B]NOT Christian, Jew, or Muslim.

Does that equal evil? 😕 [/B]

Pagan is not that...its a broader term for the older less established in this modern world that was once largely populated with in the old times and have all but died away into time now...

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
"Traditional cult worship" as opposed to "pagan worship" etc.

Words like "animist" also crop up regularly.

Originally posted by Alliance
Words like "animist" also crop up regularly.

Especially with more attention being paid now to religion that predated the spread of Greek cult.

Rome has for a long time been unfairly thought of lacking any religion of its own, merely assimilating others, but they had animist beliefs long before they set up Juno and Saturn and co.

Which leads to other debates - differences between Pagan religion, animism and organised religion - though that is more on the mechanics of the cults, as opposed to what was believed.

Originally posted by Alliance
Did this really deserve a thread?

Originally posted by debbiejo
Sure does because the Christian faith is based on it and they don't know... 😈

The bastard son of Paganism. Christianity probably never gets invited to the family reunions.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Does Pagan equal Evil??

[edit] There are holidays that are in the Christain church, we have statues here in the US that are pagan even in DCA................hmm..........

No. Paganism = foundation for many many monotheist religions.

No point in me saying anything.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
No. Paganism = foundation for many many monotheist religions.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Sure does because the Christian faith is based on it and they don't know... 😈

Then why not make a thread on that instead of beating around the bush until you've killed all the bushbies?

You're too picky........I think it's pill time for you now.....

See religions, or most are pagan.......... 😂 ...And yet they point their fingers at everybody else and call them sinners...........bangin

Yes. How ironic. People are both ignorant of history and hypocritical about it.

Originally posted by Alliance
Yes. How ironic. People are both ignorant of history and hypocritical about it.

Originally posted by padmeXskywalker
I am a witch, i study witchcraft and magick. I am wiccan and pagan.

Many of my friends in the past have called me devil worshipper. I just want to know, only nothing anyvody says is going to change the way i think about my religion, is Paganism and Wicca wrong??? is it worshipping satan (who by the way was made up by christians) is magick turning beauftiful flowers into dust, spreading plague ect...
To you, is that what magick and pagansim is about???

You're the worst kind of Pagan. The ignorant type.

Neither of them are about spells and magic, magic just happens to be a more popular section of both.

Paganism is better than what we have today, but unfortunately many teenagers that are into it turned it into a fashion trend or something alike...

Well what many would call magic is really IMO is just intention. Strong energies that can be used only because they exist anyway and we use them all the time, yet not knowing we are. The power of attraction to what a person dwells on would make it many times happen.

Actually I find paganism quite fascinating. Some things differ from culture to culture, but they all have the roots in common, just different names and rituals...

True magic is neither black nor white. It' s both because nature is both, loving and cruel, all at the same time. The only good or bad is in the heart of the person. Life gives a balance of its own.