why do people think wicca is satanic or evil?

Question

its stupid! its not , in any way ! so i just want to know why people believe it(cuz im wiccan)

ok, so we dont believe in satan...or god, we have a horned god, and a goddess,and actually to all you ignorant people, the pentagram is a symbol of the elements, each point is an element(earth,air,fire,water,spirit/soul)and the circle is unity!

I AM WICCAN!! i just want to know from christians, wtf? i mean come on! isnt the christian thing to love, and accept others, and the first amendmant says we have a right to belief and speech! so wtf are you judging? i am not christian, and never will be, i ACCEPT other religions, and some of my best friends are mormon to the max!

Answer 1

Gosh, some of the answers you got are really out there. I'm Christian, and I don't judge you. My choice is just different than yours. My brother was raised Catholic and married a wiccan. Hey, don't ask me. They met, fell in love, married, whatever.

I've always found the word "tolerance" to be pretty insulting. It implies the person doing the tolerating is somehow superior. The way I see it, it's not our job to "tolerate" each other, but to simply respect the differences and not be rude and violent towards one another.

I know I didn't exactly answer your question about why people believe it's satanic. Guess I'm trying to say, a little respect for one another goes a long way. We can't all think the same or be the same, but we can show respect for another person's belief without agreeing with their way of life and still live happily ever after..... or so I think.

Answer 2

Christians see us as going against God that's undesirable. Christians think of all and sundry who would not have faith in God is being lead with the help of the devil and/or is sinning for no longer believing in God. additionally many everybody is terrified of witchcraft. Witchcraft brings up techniques of people in black putting curses on those they dislike. because of the fact that such a number of books on Wicca communicate approximately witchcraft or perhaps use the be conscious "witch" interior the titles, this is not any ask your self Christians think of we are undesirable or evil. We will possibly no longer certainly worship the devil or solid curses, yet till we teach we are loving human beings to them, we can constantly have a undesirable acceptance. And any Wican Priest might comprehend this.

Answer 3

Because Christianity, Judaism and Islam look upon all religions other than their own as being "satanic" or "evil". By making other religions "satanic" and and thus eliminating them as being potentially interesting to their followers, they up their chances of retaining followers. In short, the gods of the old religions always become the devils of the new.

Answer 4

Do you know the history of the occult? Do you understand why it has been practiced from the beginning of time? Do you know who brought it to the earth? Do you know that God flooded the earth for this same practice? When Satan was kick out of heaven his elect took daughters of men and created their own offspring…God sent the flood to rid the earth of these offspring. All forms of witchcraft come from Satan and his elect. You make a choice to follow him weather you realize it or not. You don’t have to be evil as long as your focus is on anything other than the living God. Satan looks at his time here on earth as a competition. When people turn away from the living God they choose sides. Witches are mentions in the Bible…doesn’t matter good or bad. You worship nature not God. It’s seen as an anti-God religion, thereby, you push God away.

If you are ok with the fact that your spirit will not survive the second death and that you will not live an eternity with the living God who made your spirit…then by all means continue to mock him. But he will have the last word.

Right from the beginning of time God was warning people:

Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

EDIT:

Why do people reject Christ?

The Sower

Matthew 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

(When any one hears the word of the kingdom and doesn’t understand then along comes the wicked one and takes away what was sown in his heart)

God is written in the hearts of every one...they choose not to accept him. They give up their inheritance for a moment in this world.

15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.


God loves you, but he won’t tolerate your choice forever.

Faith

EDIT: God doesn’t care who your friends are, he only cares that you have a relationship with him…we all have friend of other faith…but it’s your relationship with God that matters the most. I might add… you think that what you can do as a witch here on earth can compare to what a son of God…an Angel can accomplish…Christians are promised to become as Angels…I can’t imagine what we will be able to achieve. I think it will be so cool!

Answer 5

the bible teaches that any who follow the practise of magick, sorcery and alchemy are making deals and pacts with the devils and demons of the Enochian underworld.

The fact that it doesn't holds no relevance to those people so set in their ways they will not listen to anything else.

I have been told countless times that the horned god (who is actually more reminisent of Pan, especially due to his mate called Diana, the moon goddess...) is a rip off of the devil. Kind of hard when Pan has been around for thousands of years, but meh... Shrug it off and carry on.

Answer 6

Some Christians, not all, believe that any deity that is not their god is Satan tricking people into worshipping him. However, a lot of the Christians I know are tolerant.

Answer 7

Wicca doesn't need to blatantly "worship" Satan to be satanic or evil. Like all religions, it offers their adherents false hope for deliverance. There can be no deliverance through either false gods or so-called "messengers" of God. So many people just cannot seem to figure out that there is only One True God, and Jesus Christ alone who is really alive. Only a living Savior can offer you, me, and the rest of the planet true deliverance. Religions teach that there are many rules or "laws" to obey in order to gain acceptance from God. We would all be damned to hell, if it weren't for Jesus. God is not pleased by our own efforts. We are all corrupt, wicked. Wiccans are too. So are all Hindus, Buddhist, Zoroastrians, followers of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of us would be lost without the true Lord Jesus Christ who is alive. Krishna ain't real. Buddha is dead. Zarathustra is dead. Moses is dead. Muhammad is dead. John the Baptist, Mary, and the apostles are dead too. Only Jesus Christ lives. As far as Wicca goes, Minerva ain't real, Gaia ain't real, Manon ain't real. Ishtar ain't real. Get the point? God is real. Jesus Christ is alive. All the rest of the junk is just junk!!!

Answer 8

The christians believe that anything that's not of their religion is satanic (which is stupid and ignorant) and maybe also the fact that there's a horned god which kinda reminds them of the devil a little bit.

Answer 9

Because many are uninformed and don't know what Wicca is about. People are afraid of things they don't understand. If they knew they wouldn't be worried about it at all. Wicca is a very peaceful and good religion.

Answer 10

No disrespect intended at all. There are only two sources of spiritual power in the universe. Satan (whose power has been granted to him for a short time) and God.

If Wicca does not get its power from God, well that only leaves one choice.

This is not to say you are not a very nice person, I have many friends who are involved in Wicca and I tell them the same if they ask.

edit-- By the way, I am not judging you as a person. You asked my opinion regarding a belief system. Wicca may not be obvious as to what it is on the surface. I simply disagree with you.