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Relgion
Alright, i'm looking for a religion. I'm not christian, i know that. It doesn't feel right.
I'm kind of thinking about being a wiccan, my friend said it would be perfect for me. She was looking for a religion for a while like i am, but she found wicca, and she really likes it.
Does anyone out there know what its all about, or have any good sites about it?
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do a search on the net..type in the word..and look up a bunch of site..usally you can find one that will give you soem of the answers you are looking for.
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You only want to be wiccan because your friend is doing it. Get your own mind.
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Wicca is a nature worshipping religion for the most part. It is also polytheistic to a sort. Mostly dualistic as we believe in the God and Goddess. The goddesss has a triple aspect to her - Mother, Maiden and Crone.
I would recommend books to you instead of sites. I never really found any useful information from sites...so I recommend authors D.J. Conway, Scott Cunningham, and Raymond Buckland.
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i have no idea what a wicca is but judaism is working out for me! --rachael
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Go to www.google.com and look it up. Wicca is WITCH CRAFT Sorta. It magical stuff.
What is the Wiccan religion?
Many of the ancient pagan and Mother Earth cult religions required human sacrifice. Although most witches today deny using human or animal blood sacrifices, cases of witches who used blood letting and sacrifice are replete throughout history even to the present day.
Modern 20th century Wiccans draw their religious ideology from the Mother Earth cults of the Celtic and Nordic peoples of pre-Christian Europe. The word "Wiccan" first appears in an early manuscript of an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the alliterative phrase: wyccan and wælcyrian, "witches and valkyries."1 The word in Old English has masculine and feminine endings and denotes both men and women using magic arts. The word "victim" in English has the same derivation as wycca and originally meant a living human being "set apart" to be sacrificed to a deity.2
The religion is traced to ancient Celtic and Northern German people who practiced human sacrifice. The Roman historian, Tacitus, records that the ancestors of the English speaking peoples, the Angles, sacrificed to the Mother Earth Goddess. In his Germania, "On the Origin and Geography of Germany," Tacitus describes this gruesome ritual as "a ceremony performed by slaves who are immediately afterward drowned in the lake." Some of the victims, astonishingly preserved in peat bogs, are on display in museums in Denmark.3
Modern witches unabashedly make reference to the pagan rituals of pre-Christian Europe in describing their religion. In a paper submitted to the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, Michael Thorn writes: "Modern Witchcraft (or Wicca) is the most common expression of the religious movement known as Neo-paganism.... Its practitioners are reviving ancient Pagan practices and beliefs of pre-Christian Europe and adapting them to contemporary American life.... Wiccans focus their liturgy and worship around a Goddess and a God. Rituals and services are timed to the phases of the moon and to the Wheel of the Year (i.e., the solstices, equinoxes, and the days falling midway between these such as May Day and Hallowe'en). Most witches treat their practice as a priesthood, somewhat akin to the mystery cults of classical Greece and Rome, involving years of training and passage through life transforming initiatory rituals. All witches agree on the ethical code, 'An it harm none, do what ye will'; in other words, 'Do what you believe is right, but let no one be harmed by your actions.'"4
According to a recent Ms. magazine article: "Witchcraft is about wholeness, about celebrating one's intimacy with the Goddess and the earth, who are one and the same.... [T]here are 200,000 women and men practicing the Old Religion in the United States. The Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California, claims that Witchcraft and Paganism are the fastest growing religions in the country, countering the rise of Christian fundamentalism."5
1 The Northern World, ed. David M. Wilson (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1980) p.40.
2 Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1975.
3 McCrum, The Story of English (Elisabeth Sifton Books, Viking, New York, 1987) p.57.
4 Michael Thorn, "A Portrait of Wicca," A Sourcebook for the Community of Religions, The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions.
5 Jan Phillips, "The Craft of the Wise," Ms., January/February 1993.
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*Thats a good website*
go to google type in WICCA RELIGION
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Books I would recommend for the beginner are:
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
and
Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham.
Both can be found at [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) or your local library.
Websites to check out:
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Hope this helps and Blessed Be.
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I am a very unreligious person (an atheist) and I think that religion is corrupt. It is just another way for people to put themselves above other people. As for the whole god thing there is absoulutely no proof. Wicca sounds like a very interesting religion though the worship of satan interests me. There is no satan and there is no god and thats final.
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i dont have a webpage bout it but pray bout it and u wont find it it will find u
fallen angel
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i dont think you should ask people about this..its how YOU feel. Im a Muslim and i think it's the best religion. u should look into it more. in other religions there r questions that cant be answered like satanists...why would u worship the devil?? im sorry but i make no sense what-so-ever. someone created the devil and thats GOD...u should think about that all u people who worship the devil. i think if u became a Muslim you will feel much better about yourself. Wiccan isnt something you should go after vodoo isnt safe at all..hope i helped byes
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yeah you do voodoo
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I'm personally not to big on the wiccan religion...or any religion actually. I've been looking into buddhism though...I'm liking that HOWEVER...
Wiccans...have a lot of goddesses...that's all I know about it. And their symbol is a star inside a circle, and I hear it's very sadistically gorgeous. BUT READ ON...
You need to ask yourself a few questions...
1. What made you give up your former religion to begin with.
2.What don't you like about it.
3.Why are you suddenly interested in finding a new religion.
I'm not saying religion is a bad thing, but I sometimes think people go into religions hoping to belong with people, and find something to ease their bordem, and curve their imagination.
My advice to you is think about what YOU believe in before you jump into a religion..because they can be decieving. Just figure out what you want in life, and what you truly think is going on, then find a religion that corresponds with that. Because most just go into a religion, and over time, their minds are warped, and they now believe to whatever "book" is holy. You're your universe. Click with the people who believe what you believe in. THEN find yourself a religion.
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dont b a loser. be Christian WOOT WOOT!
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i don't think it's important to FIND a religion. you'll know what feels right.
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I have a site : [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) it has everything about it. Hope this helped.
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