What do people think of Wicca?

Question

Im learning wicca right now, and alot of people dont like it, my mum doesnt like, but she doesnt care, she just doesnt want it in her house. but i want to know other peoples opinion about it also.

Answer 1

I think that Wicca is a fu-fu fairy coverup for real magick. But the only reason I think that is because I was a Wiccan and grew into a Thelemite ceremonial magician. I'm glad its around if only to get more people to open there minds to something expanding.

Boy I just read that and I sound so stuck up. I'm not really if you know me. I just moved past the spells and circle casting so long ago................

My HPS who I love till the end of time once told me "I'm a WITCH, not a Wiccan!"
The word witch did not come from the word wicca.
One thing that I realised after years of study is the Christian god is the same thing as the Gods and Goddess's of the old religion. The Christians worship a trinity, while the old religions commune with the different aspects of the whole. There is only one creator, broken into different aspects so that people can understand him or her better. Hope that makes some sort of sense to you.

Answer 2

A lot of ignorant people will tell you it's bad and/or evil, they aren't neccessarily stupid just not educated about this certain subject. I have studied Wicca (but not praticed it) it's not bad and IS very earth oriented. They are some people (who pratice it) give Wicca a bad name and those people ruin it for others who are truly Wiccan. Don't pay attention to what others say. I can understand your moms hesitantion, if she wants to learn, included her so she won't get the idea your going to join some Marilyn Manson type cult. I personally am not into organized religion (I'm more of an agnostic, which has it's haters too) but I have no basis against those who are. I believe in karma though, if your basically good in life and don't plunder, rape, a pillage then you will be reward for it (through heaven or something of that nature) and if your bad/evil you will be punished (in some form or another). OH and to the guy that has written after me that said Wiccan was made by some guy 50yrs ago is wrong. Wiccan has been around for centuries. How else could King James I in 1609 have burned all the supposed "witches" if that religion wasn't even around. The sect that Gerald Gardner created was just a branch of Wiccan (like Christianity is a branch of Catholicism). That's like saying Christianity was just some made-up religion by some guy named Jesus who had a bunch of cult followers and somebody wrote it down and it happened to sustain for some 2,000yrs (which is not what I'm saying just an example)

Answer 3

People that don't understand it fear it. Basically, Witches are herbologists that make herbal remidies and such that actually work. They don't generally hurt people. I have a wicca friend who can cure anything with the right weeds and such. There are several different kinds of wiccans as well. Some have different areas of study. Just like any religion it's a belief system focusing on personal and cosmic energies to complete a task or give meaning to the persons life that practices it. I could go on but I won't.

Answer 4

The most intense aspect of religion is the mystery of it - the sense that no matter how much you think you know, there is so much more to know and to experience than the pale shadow of the true light that we have here.

For me - and I'll just point out that this is for me, and me alone - I just can't warm to wicca. I don't mean to sound harsh, but for me, there's just no real antiquity to it; you'd be practicing the made-up spirituality of Gerald Gardner, a man whose seminal work "Witchcraft Today" only dates back fifty years.

Setting aside for a moment my real attachment to Jesus - beyond that, there's real comfort to me that in my religion I'm in a communion with people going back millenia. I just couldn't give that up for something that - to me - is a thin veneer of earth-piety over what feels to me as somewhat inauthentic pagan play acting.

And no - despite the rebuttal above - wicca is only about fity years old. The "witches" of popular mythology and wicca are two utterly different things. Wicca originates with Gerald Gardner and does not predate him. That may be an unwelcome fact, but it nonetheless remains a fact.

Answer 5

(The word “Wicca” means “wise ones.” The word “witch” is derived from “Wicca.”) The witches worked their spells and magic as individuals or sometimes in groups of 13 known as Covens. Sometimes the witches and wizards worked as a triumvirate or power of three. The female Wiccan was known as a witch, and the male Wiccan was known as a wizard. The word “warlock” was not used by witches to identify themselves. It is actually a Scotch-Gaelic word that means “traitor.” Satanists use the word “warlock.”

The Wiccans were worshippers of the “Earth Mother”, the sun, the moon, and stars. Witches do not believe in Satan. The Wiccans or witches meet every Friday night at a gathering called an “esbat.” They draw a magic circle with a six-pointed star in it called a “hexagram”, from which we get the word “hex.” The coven of 13 stand “sky clad” or naked in the hexagram and work spells by chanting and doing rituals such as “drawing down the moon.” The full moon is sacred to witches, especially if it is on a Friday. It is considered to be even greater if the Friday is the 13th day of the month.

Eight times each year, the witches celebrated a sabat and the ritual work and spell casting was always done on the eve of the sabat. The sabats are Imbolc on February 2nd, the spring equinox on March 22nd, Beltaine on May 1st, the summer solstice on June 22nd, Lugnahsaid on July 31st, the fall equinox on September 22nd, Samhain on October 31st, and the winter solstice on December 22nd, which is also known as Yule.

Answer 6

I'm not a Wiccan; I follow a different neo-pagan path. The things that I admire about those who follow a Wiccan path are the closeness found in their covens, their loyalty to keeping their oaths, and the depth of their required training/mentoring.

Answer 7

OK, you asked. Wicca is wrong, and those who practice Wicca need to turn from their idolatry. That is what I think.
By the way, idolatry doesn't just mean that one sits in front of a little statue and worships it. Idolatry is basically anything that you value more than God, and it could be money, the internet, sex, gambling, or even work. So since Wiccans don't believe in God or Jesus Christ, and they do place an emphasis on their own beliefs, that is a form of idolatry.

Answer 8

There is a woman on here who knows a lot about Wiccan and other types of witchcraft From what she has told me it has good teachings and no its not an evil thing; that's what "they" want you to believe: do your thing

Answer 9

The thing wrong about Wicca is that you should not worship anybody or anything except God. The only way to worship God is through Jesus Christ and wicca people don't believe in Jesus.

Answer 10

I am not a Wiccan, but I respect people who choose to practice that path. I have Wiccan friends.