What is a Wiccan? I've never heard that before.?

Question

I feel like I was just threatened by a Wiccan.
My God is bigger than your God.

Answer 1

Wicca is a Neopagan religion and a religious movement found in various countries throughout the world. It was first popularised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner[1] after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion. The veracity of Gardner's claims cannot be independently proven, and it is thought that written Wiccan theology began to be compiled no earlier than the 1920s. Various related Wiccan traditions have since evolved, or been adapted from, the form established by Gardner, which came to be called Gardnerian Wicca. These other traditions of Wicca each have distinctive beliefs, rituals, and practices. Many traditions of Wicca remain secretive and require that members be initiated. There is also a movement of Eclectic or Solitary Wiccans who do not believe that any doctrine or traditional initiation is necessary in order to practice Wicca. The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey estimated that at least 134,000 adults identified themselves as Wiccans in the US.[

Answer 2

in the beginning, Catholics are Christian, between the various denominations. Atheist isn't a faith because of the fact Atheism is the place you do not have faith in a god, and faith is the place you have a sequence of ideals and practices, and Atheists in uncomplicated terms have faith one factor and are a assorted team who carry their non-concept for extremely some reasons. to respond to your question: Wicca is a faith that grew to become into created approximately 50 or 60 years in the past to restore in uncomplicated terms paganist ideals; merely with much less human sacrifices. I met a wiccan at a pool as quickly as. She reported she had a room with each and every wall a distinctive colour for the 5 factors of fireplace water air earth and lightweight. and that's all i understand approximately Wicca.

Answer 3

A true Wiccan will never say that. We beleive all spiritual paths lead to diety and is right for the individual. We are an earth based religion and celebrates the cycles of the earth.

Answer 4

Wiccans believe in many gods and goddess. They worship nature, trees, plants, animals. They do not "borrow" anything from the devil, and they are not bad people. They believe in pure things. Its considered one of the oldest religions. Alot of people judge them because they think they are bad, when they really are not. They believe that no harm should be done to anything or anyone.

Answer 5

It is considered a pagan religion. While it's practitioners are called witches, it isn't bad. True Wicca practitioners practice white magic. They use the elements and nature to achieve certain objectives. They are NOT evil, as many monotheistice religious folks will probably say.

Answer 6

The word is an old English (Saxon) word meaning "wise." The Wiccan, therefore, purports to be wise in worshiping the earth or some other aspect of creation instead of the one who created. They have the right to their religion like anyone else.

Answer 7

Wicca is a branch of paganism, its practitioners revere the natural world and believe that everything has a spirit associated with it.

Answer 8

A witch, not on a broom, but a pagan. They believe that their magic come from nature that there are many gods and goddesses. (I personally believe they borrow their magic from the devil). They believe a witch can be good and evil, but since they are borrowing theire magic from the devil, it can't ever be good. So there in lies the paradox, why do Christians like the evil Harry Potter books so much with the evil witchcraft in it??? Anyways enough of my agenda... Witches believe in the rule of three, the like the christian law of cursing and blessing. Some wiccans even believe they can combine christianity and wiccan, its called wicca/christian, just like christians read Harry Potter instead of their Bible.

Answer 9

We don't warship satan (many christains will tell you that we do, which is a lie). We belive in gods and goddess that predate christainty. yes, we do spells, but spells are verson of prayers and they have noting to do with satan. for more in depth information check out glasstemple.com

Answer 10

As a Wiccan priest, let me explain. Wicca was more-or-less founded by Gerald Gardener in England in 1939, when he claimed that he had been initiated into one of the last surviving witch covens in England. He claimed that witchcraft is actually a good religion that has prohibitions against harming others and developed a set of religious practices that today is known as Wicca. Since then, there have been many versions of this.

Although, some have argued that Wicca comes from a dotted line back to the Neoplatonists, ancient Greek philosophers and mystics.

Let's start with ethics. We believe in avoiding harm to others (as much as we can, anyway... many of us take this to mean that it's okay to defend ourselves and others, just not to do harm others maliciously), trying to make ourselves the best people we can be both ethically and practically, taking good care of the earth and trying to make the world a better place.

Next, let's talk about beliefs. Gardener taught that there is a Goddess and a God and many Wiccans believe this, but Wiccans are free to believe whatever they find to be true about Divinity and the Cosmos. This is because we believe in direct contact with the Divine, as opposed to getting to the Divine through a holy book. We have rituals designed to allow us to commune with the Divine, but we also acknowledge that we might be wrong about what we receive, so we try to avoid telling others what to do based on our contact. If we feel that the Divine has contacted us with a message for others, we usually tell others about it, but say that they should contact the Divine themselves and see if they get the same message.

So, while many Wiccans, as I've said, are duotheistic, there are also monotheists (usually they believe in a single Goddess), polytheists and even agnostics and atheists. The reason for the latter two is that some Wiccans see Divinity as symbolic or metaphorical. One common belief also in Wicca is that of monism, the belief that all Gods are One. The concept is that all of the conceptions of Divinity in world mythology are really about the same One Divinity, which can be subdivided into two or even many Deities.

But, what really defines Wicca is more practice than belief. We have 8 seasonal holidays, in which we celebrate the changing of the seasons. This practice helps with seasonal depression, among other things.

We also meet once a lunar month. Different Wiccan traditions have different phases of the moon that are considered to be the best times to meet. Many meet on the full moon. Some non-Wiccans get scared by this practice, because they think of darkness and night as evil. But, we understand these things to be part of nature and understand the fullness of the moon as being a time of high Divine power.

At these lunar rituals, we work with mysticism and perform spiritual practices that are designed to make the world a better place by making us better people. For example, if a Wiccan is having trouble with her boss, she might work spiritually to transform herself into a person who can work better with her boss. Wiccans call this "magic", but many outsiders misunderstand what we mean by the word. Many of us simply see magic as a system of using symbols to transform ourselves spiritually. For another example, since many Wiccans associate fire with our goals in life, earth with mundane aspects of life, air with the intellect and water with emotions, we often try to improve ourselves by doing rituals to balance the four elements within ourselves.

We are non-proselytizing, because we believe that it's up to each person to figure out for himself or herself what he or she believes about Divinity and the Cosmos. We try to respect other religious beliefs, since we know that no one really knows what's going on in the universe. We're all mere mortals who are trying our best to figure it out. Some people believe in holy books, we believe what we believe, others believe what they believe and we try to avoid judgement.

We believe in being good for goodness' sake. While some Wiccans believe in reincarnation and others simply believe that when we die, we die, we recognize that the world would be a better place if we're good people and basically try to be nice to others.

Many, particularly fundamentalists, are under the false impression that we worship Satan. Satan is a Judeo-Christian concept. In Wicca, we see evil as originating from humans. Divinity, in all of Its aspects, is trying to get human beings to be better people and heal us of the emotional scars we've received in life SO THAT we can be good people.