What is your oppinion on Wicca and why?

Question

What religion do you follow?
All Answers are welcome and all will be read.

about me:
im 16 years old and have been studiying Wicca for about a year and plan to find a teacher in about three more months...i follow the rede best as i can... and please dont think of me as "fluffy" and trying to piss off my parents...(they support it by the way) they arent very religious but they do follow out native american ways and they can strongly relate to Wicca as we both worship nature. I live in Wyoming and like to have fun...

oh and i shall refrain from practacing magick until i actually find a teacher who knows what they are doing i do not wish to do anything dangerous. i do celebrate the sabbats though.

Answer 1

I actually followed Wicca for several years when I was younger. I had several friends who were Wiccan and at the time I was going through a lot of things at home and it seemed like the God I had loved as a child had abandoned me. The "Lord and Lady" seemed to be father and mother figures and that is what I needed at the time. Unfortunately it didn't fit with me spiritually. Something just didn't feel quite right. I have no problems with those who follow it. It just doesn't work for me. And when it comes to my spiritual life, only my conscience matters.

For the past 6 years I have done a lot of soul searching, reading, and prayer (to many deities). Finally a year ago I came back to the God of my youth and found the parental figures, love, and spirituality that I need.

Catholic

God bless,
=)

Answer 2

i'm an eclectic pagan, i was a wiccan & am still strongly influenced by its idealogy (well, some of it, but i can't remember which branch off hand)
i think it's great!! i love the symbolism of the god/desses & the construct of time, it's respect for nature & all things living. it seems a much more holistic view of the world than many abrahamic religions (at least, the way they are often practiced these days). and it's much more easy going & peaceful, and accepting of people as individuals with their own paths. i just couldn't get into the whole sabbat/esbat thing personally, the symbolism of the ritual was just too much for me, or else i would still be a witchcraft practicing wiccan...

Answer 3

I am Wiccan, also. I was raised Greek Orthodox, but found Christianity on the whole to be too judgmental, unbending, and closed-minded. In short, I got tired of being a "hater". It was not me. It was making me sad, not happy. I was angry at everyone and everything all the time. I was never "good enough" for someone, which by church elders was always told to me was Jesus or God, but in reality was just them.

So, I researched many religions and found that my beliefs were really a mixture of Native American Shamanism and Buddhism. Wicca mixes the best of both into one neat package for me. And today, I am a much better person to live with, just ask my wife.

Answer 4

I am a Neo-Pagan Taoist. I am very familiar with Wicca but I don't actually practice it myself, I'm a more generic Pagan.

I like its principles very much, and its creed, and I think it's a healthy spiritual path. I only believe in deities in a symbolic sense, but I do like their symbols of these.

The rituals are just a wee bit hokey for me, which is why I never got into it properly, but I understand that those things may help people *feel* what it is they're trying to accomplish. I don't really need those things, but I'm pretty good at what I do so it's just tools I don't require.

I also really like the pentacle, because it's a symbol of balanced power, and the circle around it means it's controlled power, which is healthy. I LOVE to celebrate pagan holidays, the celebration of each aspect of life in its turn, over and over... cyclical thinking as opposed to linear. I think all this is very healthy psychologically - balance, control, empathy, cycles, celebrating life and the world around us. All great things for a religion to offer. AND it's a very personalized religion, which is ideal in my opinion.

Answer 5

Wicca is about love, peace, and understianding. We pursue that which is good, and reject that wich is wrong. We are tolerant and respectful of other people's beliefs, but we still prefer to practice the Craft in secrecy, often as a tradition, but most of the time to feel free to practice the craft without disturbing anyone with it.

I am an eclectic Wiccan, and because of the recent persecution (years 2001-2003), I opted to become a Solitary practitioner.

Answer 6

I'm an Indopagan.

I think that Wicca is a very good religion for people who are responsible and have common sense. Ideally, tt's a religion made entirely of clergy, so its practitioners must be well-trained and be willing to devote their time to the community.

Wicca played a huge role in brining paganism to modern America, and so I will always be grateful to it, because if I hadn't been exposed to Wicca, I probably wouldn't have eventually found my place in paganism.

Answer 7

Well I am wiccan,

I had been studying witchcraft for about 2 years and found the wiccan path a year ago.. I have found that this is the best religion for ME... Not saying its the best for everyone else... Wicca's beliefs are the closest to how I feel and how I think...

Answer 8

I think Wicca is the correct spiritual path for some people but not everyone =-]. Wicca isn't all about magick and witchcraft its about the bond you hold with nature the Lord and Lady (or other Gods/Goddess) and also the people around you.

Wicca is just a great thing =-]].

My relgion/faith and way of life: Wicca

Answer 9

Obviously, as a Wiccan, I have a positive view of it, but sadly the religion is being exploited by a few Johnny-come-latelies and it's making things hard on us.
To give an example, my local community had a gathering in which a young lady stomped out with her two friends because we couldn't use magic to change her hair color. Grrrrrrrr.

Answer 10

I am Neo-Hellenic. I have no problem with Wicca persay. I respect its validity and its fecundity. I do wish Wiccans would understand that their GodandGoddess is not the same as my Gods and Goddesses and that Hecate, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Eos, Selene and Helios are individuals who deserve to be honored in their own rights, not "worked with" and evoked simply to be "used" in spellwork and viewed only as subsets of their all-encompassing LordandLady. That gets on my nerves. I wish Wiccans would make up their own names for their different facets of the GodandGoddess. I find it disrespectful and I know there are Kemetic Pagans and Heathens that feel the same way I do.