Persecution of Our People?

Question

who do you think are the major contributors to persecution against Pagans/Wiccans. Ive dealt with a lot of it, and frankly Im tired of it. All im really getting at is Why do people think we are devil worshippers if we dont even believe in the christian devil. Just as a figure most of the people who persecute me are Christians(not implying Christians are bad) just wondering why do the call us evil but they killed our people in the Burning Times

correction: only about a quarter of the people in the Burning Times were not pagan. They werent Wiccan but the were ancient roman Pagan

if you God was a God of love, he wouldnt have destroyed Sodom and Gommorah. He would have tried to make the sinners shun from their evil ways, honestly "God" has done nothing for me, if he truly loved everyone he wouldnt say that practicers of Witchcraft would burn in Hell, he would really say all those who live a virtous life would go to so-called Heaven. You religion is bigoted and full of holes. Im sorry if i offended any of you Christians but from what I understand and Yes, I have read the Bible and yes ive gone to the churches of many different types of Christians and this is what I have concluded from what I have seen of Christianity. So do not try and sway me anymore because I have done more than most Pagans by studying your religion. So if you want to change my mind "God" better smite me where I stand.

Answer 1

Your history is confused.
But I'm not going to bother. It makes me tired explaining over and over...

Anyway. SO we get persecuted. Yea, it sucks. But we chose this. It's the cross we bear, so to speak. Who cares if they think we worship the Devil. Why even bother to correct them? It's easy to get information about us.

As far as the persecution goes, when it happens, we should fight it, stand up against it (peacefully and legally) for the good of all who would come after us. But we shouldn't look for it, and we shouldn't whine about it, because that's just going to make a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Answer 2

Some people use the title "Christian" as an excuse to attack other people yet do not have a personal relationship with God. I don't believe that Jesus wants anyone persecuted. He's been there himself. Instead, he wants all to come to Him. If you choose not to, that is because you have free will to believe the trees have spirits or you are your own god or whatever. My God is not a god of hate but a god of love. You can't force someone to accept your beliefs. However, I can love that person and live by example.

Many of the people burned as witches, where no witches and did not practice witchcraft. During the Salem Witch Trials, people who were executed were often those who had rubbed the young accusers the wrong way.

I'm sorry that you feel persecuted. That may be the case or it may be that Christians simply do not agree with you.

Answer 3

back in the "burning times" most of the people burned weren't wiccan but innocent people accused by others of being witches...what I want to know is why people think they can lay claim to the suffering of other people to further their own causes...

Since the late 1970's, a quiet revolution has taken place in the study of historical witchcraft and the Great European Witch Hunt. ... many theories which reigned supreme thirty years ago have vanished, swept away by a flood of new data. the quantity and quality of available evidence has dramatically improved...Today, for the first time, we have a good idea of the dimensions of the Great Hunt: where the trials occurred, who was tried in them, who did the killing, and how many people lost their lives. Every aspect of the Great Hunt, from chronology to death toll, has changed. And if your knowledge of the "Burning Times" is based on popular or Pagan literature, nearly everything you know may be wrong.

For years, the responsibility for the Great Hunt has been dumped on the Catholic Church's door-step. 19th century historians ascribed the persecution to religious hysteria. And when Margaret Murray proposed that witches were members of a Pagan sect, popular writers trumpeted that the Great Hunt was not a mere panic, but rather a deliberate attempt to exterminate Christianity's rival religion. Today, we know that there is absolutely no evidence to support this theory.

When the Church was at the height of its power (11th-14th centuries) very few witches died. Persecutions did not reach epidemic levels until after the Reformation, when the Catholic Church had lost its position as Europe's indisputable moral authority. Moreover most of the killing was done by secular courts. Church courts tried many witches but they usually imposed non-lethal penalties. A witch might be excommunicated, given penance, or imprisoned, but she was rarely killed. The Inquisition almost invariably pardoned any witch who confessed and repented.

Answer 4

Demonetization of all other concepts is just another way to keep people centralized in a certain religious belief system. If you teach anything that is different from your core beliefs is evil people will try to destroy it instead of learn about it. This is the whole basis of how most religions keep and build its fellowship. This is also the major impetus between religious strife and ultimately wars.

This also is the foundation of racism.

Answer 5

The christian church demonized our gods and made the pagan religions evil hundreds of years ago. They burned our bodies and our books, cut down our sacred groves, destroyed our temples and desecrated our holy places. Modern christians are simply following the pattern and as with most other horrible things that christians do, it is simply out of fear and a need to control. My advice: do not interact with christians.

Answer 6

Because too many can't see/think past their own noses. I have a hard time grasping how some people seem to think that the world all goes automatically by what they believe and as if everyone else does to...

Answer 7

They think they have the right to judge because they think their religion is THE religion.....the correct one. Which is complete rubbish.
They just fear you. The fear what they know nothing about. And instead of reading about it, they'd rather demonize you and judge you. They seem to think that if they read about other religions then they are going against their own god.
Ignorance, to them, is bliss.

Answer 8

Well, unfortunately they think they are fully justified in their behavior and see nothing wrong with it. They cannot think outside their religion's paradigm...to them anyone worshiping or honoring something other than their deity is a devil worshiper.

Answer 9

People are ignorant of what you really believe and prefer to make judgements rather than educate themselves.

Answer 10

sorry to hear that you have one of the only groups that I don't have a grievance against ...Hope you keep your head above it cause their lousy opinions are just not worth it.