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What is Wicca and Pagan? Who is your Higher Power? What beliefs are followed?
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Very interested to know the difference between the two. I just want some backround, the practices, the beliefs, i have already read up on the history of it. Can someone explain? Is it considered “evil” to people of the Christian and Judiasm religion? Thanks in advance.
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about 6 months ago
Pagan is an umbrella term encompassing many religions. Most are polytheistic and/or nature based, but not all.
Wicca is a specific religion. The higher power of Wicca is a God and a Goddess who are actually two parts of one whole.
I don’t personally know anyone who considers my religion (I am a NeoHellenic Polytheist, btw) to be evil and I have alot of Christian and a few Jewish friends, but I know there are some out there who do think it’s evil cause you hear about them on the internet all the time and if it’s on the internet it must be true!!
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about 6 months ago
I consider Pagan to be a general term for Polytheistic religions. Wicca is a specific Pagan religion from Europe. It was founded by Gerald Gardner, but it has branched out into various traditions since then.
Many Wiccans believe in a Goddess and a God, and tend to see all the different Goddesses and Gods as different names and forms of the same two beings.
It’s a nature-based religion. It honors the cycles of nature, the four seasons.
Most Wiccans believe in a kind of “Karma” that any harm you do will come back to you threefold.
Yes, most Christians consider it evil, their holy book tells them to condemn anyone who isn’t Christian. You can see the harm that has done to the world, with the forced conversions, the witch-burnings, the Crusades, the other wars.
I am not sure exactly the Jewish position, though the old testament also condemns Pagans very harshly.
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about 6 months ago
Yes it is considered evil to most Christians.
but Wicca, is a newer religion, it’s not really an organized religion, more a belief system. The lord and lady, or Divine spirit, is our higher power. There are many Deity’s, but no two wiccans practice the same.
I myself still believe in one supreme being, but I still believe in the other deity’s, I just believe them to be like the archangels.
Paganism, is an umbrella term. Pagans are anyone who isn’t Christian Muslim,or Jewish.
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about 6 months ago
Pagan is an umbrella term for all non-Abrahamic beliefs (Abrahamic = christian, jew, muslim). Wicca is a specific Pagan belief system as well as Buddhism, Hindu, Asatru, and many others. If you are interested in finding more information you can google any of the specific Pagan beliefs or check out religioustolerance.org. Primarily people of the christian faith consider anything not in compliance with their beliefs to be automatically evil. I can’t speak for the Jewish people but I would assume theirs is much the same.
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