Christians and Witches: do you think a person can be a Christian Witch?

Question

I know there are people who say they are Christian Witches, and some people don't think you can be both. (Just FYI, I'm a Witch, not a Christian.) If you think they are incompatible, why so?

Answer 1

I have heard of this over and over. I guess theoretically you could but, I don't think the two ideas go well together. Christian's would have to 'give up' a lot of the core beliefs to follow the ideas of other gods and being open to what we as witches are open to. I know how I felt while I was in church before I became a witch and how I felt after becoming one and being forced to go back. It never 'felt' like I was in the right place. I didn't agree with the things that were being said. I wasn't in a strict church but, the things that were said just didn't 'sit right'. I don't see how anyone could consider themselves a witch and a Christian.
)o( Blessed Be!

P.S. I miss the spell check on our e-mails, if you haven't figured it out yet I can't spell worth a da*n :-)

Answer 2

Since there are so many different flavors (or denominations) of Christianity and many different forms of Witchcraft, I can understand why some persons of either path might believe the two are incompatable, and the popular notion of "what a witch is" doesn't help. Many persons confuse Witchcraft with satanism or atheism, and don't see the similarities that reflect in both Christian and Witch thought: Love, compassion, unity. Each of us approaches the Mystery as an individual,and I can only speak for myself. I consider myself to be a Christian Witch, specifically a Christo-Isian Green Witch. It is my understanding that what is called "witchcraft" or "sorcery" in the Bible is not what contemporary Witches/Wiccans practice. True, I'm mush less anthropocentric than many Christians, as I feel that all life is sacred and all beings are part of one extended family (no, I don't eat flesh). I revere Nature and respect the Earth, but this doesn't equate with "nature-worship". I read various translations of the Bible, have taken graduate-level classes in religious studies, and have spent many years reflecting upon what this means to me. To me, Isis encapsulates the Female aspect of the Divine, which has also been called the Shekinah, the Holy Spirit and many other names. I am aware that some persons contend that anyone who claims to be both a Christian and a Witch is a fence-straddler, or somehow trying to deceive themselves or even to deceive God, as if that were possible. I can try to explain my convictions to others, but I only have to answer to the Divine.

Answer 3

Although people are under the impression that a person can't be a "witch" and Christian, if they truly knew anything about European culture and the history of "witchcraft" before the 20th century when "witchcraft" became legitimized, they would know that this is far from true. Most people who practiced spellcraft were Christians: everyone's little old great grandmother, including my own, with her magical talilsman, her tarot cards, and her rosary beads side by side. Magick has always been an integral part of folk culture, and Christian and pagan customs have long been conflated in European culture. Magick was ingrained in Judaic and early Christian culture. In these cultures magick in fact was often used as protection against the "mythical witch"--the bogey-man/old hag on a broomstick. People who practiced magic and spellcraft did NOT call themselves "witches" until the early 20th century and they did not think they were practicing "witchcraft." They thought that people to be suspicious of from other cultures were practicing witchcraft--and this is what the passage from Deuteronomy really implies. Furthermore, the local governments and social paranoia, not the Church, were mostly responsible for the torture and execution of witches--the large majority of which were not "witches" but Christians that their fellow Christians wanted to dispose of for one reason or another. Wicca, I will add, is not an age-old witch cult. It is a new religion based on Thelema (the ceremonial magic of Aleister Crowley), Freemasonry, the questionable anthropological work of Charles Leland, and fashionable concepts about Celtic and British paganism. Credible essays by Wiccans and occultists who are historians have been written on these points.

Answer 4

A lot of well said statements above me...
I personally think that a person can be a Christian and a Witch, but not the sort of Witch that most of us are...
There are Hedge-Witches, Kitchen-Witches and Witches in britches...
So I 'spose they can, but they don't dabble in the real Witchcraft passe...
I have never really thought about this, so it would be interesting to hear what a Christian-Witch has to say on the matter...
Love and Light... Blessed Be.. )O(

Answer 5

Dear Lady Morgana,

To be a Christian is to follow Chirst. And His teachings are found in the Bible where witchcraft is clearly prohibited. When a person accepts Christ as His Lord he makes a commitment to live life Christ's way- yes there are struggles along the way and people do not automatically lose their capacity to sin and make wrong choices- but they do have a change in heart- and they desire to do what Christ asks and the Bible is quite clear that Witchcraft is not the actions of a Christian.

Hope that helps. Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 6

well, just in my own opinion and beliefs, i am a Christian and (please DO NOT take any offense, please!) i really dont think i could go against my God and do that. You see, my beliefs say there are no good witches.
but then i do have really good friends who are Wiccan and i love them to death. (we never really talk about our beliefs much) Please dont take offense! i really dont want to sound mean. thats the last thing i want.
I just don't think that God is calling me to be one. But he's also not telling me to condemn ppl who are ones

im sorry my opinions are a little hard to understand. i dont even really understand them fully. i still have to think about this issue becuz it really hurts me when my pastor talks about no good witches and then here are some of my closest friends who are....its hard sometimes.

i hope you find the answer you're searching for though.

Answer 7

to me they are not compatable. but i do know several. and it seems to work for them.

but just because i do not understand something does not make it wrong, or impossible. it is just that to me witchcraft is a religion or a practice, and the christian religion says that you can have only one master.

but the Christ-witches that i know tend to follow the teachings of christ. and view all gods as parts of a single god. . i guess it works for them. and that is all that religion has to do. is make sense to the person that believes in it.

Answer 8

Absolutely not.It's like saying that you are a Muslim pagan.Christian doctrine and Witchcraft beliefs do not match up,and are completely incompatible.

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Answer 10

Nope~