I'm wiccan, so do I have to believe in a god and goddess?

Question

I'm new to wicca.
I don't mean not believe in a higher power at all.

I've heard of some wiccans not believing in the god and goddess and more believing in the spiritual aspects of the earth. So I was just wondering if wiccans can actually do that.

Thank you prariecrow. That's what I meant.

Answer 1

What attracted you to Wicca to begin with? From what you have said you would be better off being a Pagan which will allow you to pick your God/Goddesses. You can also just become a witch.

As I have said many times I am an ordained Wiccan Minister, but the only reason I keep this ordination is to cut through the paperwork for weddings. Beyond that, I'm a Pagan Witch and I teach that everyone at some point chooses a direction and the way you get from point a to point b is your path. No one's path is identical to yours, so I don't see how you wouldn't have questions. I think that you may have raised some locals hackles by saying you ARE Wiccan, rather than saying that you are investigating Wicca. Don't be upset. I tell everyone to worry about things you can change, not things you can't.

Maybe you should just claim to be a Pagan which isn't a confered title, so you can ask really open ended questions.

Unlike our Christian cousins we all need to practice not being judgemental. I've been known to curse so bad that it is a wonder that the paint on some idiot's car didn't peel only to remember to end my expletives with a "Goddess forgive my outburst and guide me to harmony."

So if you have questions about other areas of Pagan study you can probably write to any of the people who answered (who aren't Christian) directly and ask your question less publicly.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Wicca is a religion that is based on a god and a goddess.

if this is not what you believe, then you may be a witch, (not all witches are Wiccan) but to call oneself Wiccan, implies the belief in the god and goddess (often chosen from many pagan gods) of the paticular tradition that you follow.

you could however be a witch that uses the wiccan rituals. thus being somewhere in between.

in the end you have to decide what you are and what you believe.

Answer 3

Wicca is gods-based, not earth-based.... I can understand an established Wiccan developing an understanding of the divine that is non-literal, but honestly, why would you WANT to be Wiccan if you're missing such a very huge chunk of what the religion's about.

If a student came to me with a question like this I would seriously question why they are studying Wicca AT ALL.

Wicca is ABOUT the gods.... What on earth do YOU think it's about?

Answer 4

It usually comes with the job description, yes -- or at least the belief in a Goddess. However, some Wiccans view the God/dess as personifications of fundamentally inhuman forces, and not as entities in the human sense.

Answer 5

Personally, I don't think that people are chiefly precise. We are small cogs in an overly huge mechanism, and for this reason the gods have larger matters to do than agonize over our each scrape and boo-boo. The gods are the powers of the universe. For a few matters to reside, different matters need to die. They do not positioned protecting bubbles round humanity. I do not think they created the gigantic bang. I think the gods evolve because the universe does. After all, there is little factor for a god of battle earlier than there's something within the universe warring, for instance.

Answer 6

It helps, if you choose to be Wiccan. Most sects of Wicca have a god and goddess- or at least a goddess.

If you want to be a witch, though, you can be any kind you wish to be - one god, two gods, a thousand gods or none at all.

Answer 7

Congratulations. As a wiccan, you are free to believe whatever is true for you. We are all over the map on exactly how we visualize (or don't visualize) gods and goddesses. Myself, I understand them to be archetypal images which represent something more abstract and esoteric than it is possible for the human mind to comprehend. I have a lovely statue of Isis on my credenza over here, and the Goddess of Liberty is, as you can see, important to me. But gods are important, too.

What a friend we have in Bacchus . . .

Answer 8

It's Simple, you may believe in whatever you wish but If you don't believe in what wiccans believe then you are not wiccan

Answer 9

by the simple asking of this question you have just told everyone and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are not in fact wiccan.

Answer 10

A wiccan would know there is no HAVE to, but to be one you already would believe in both... If you don't, you're not.