by F.M. Luder

Created on: February 26, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

There are a couple of reasons that people would feel that way about Wicca. The first thing that is a turnoff to most people interested in magic, would be the continual claim that it is 'the old religion', which it decidedly is not, as it was made up by Gardner in the sixties. Not too old when you think about it. Wicca blends in a lot of old religion ideas but in itself is a new and fashionable creation which teeny bopper misfit girls eat up with a spoon. BUT and this is a big old but, that really only applies to Wicca as people approach it. It is a religion without dogma (or should be) and approached as such, and built on by an open and inquiring mind holds much promise. However that so rarely happens. You find Wiccan spell books with spells invoking angels, or pivoting on Judeo-Christian ideals and principals, and that in itself is ridiculous.

Then the teeny bopper girls who find it so fun and fashionable to pretend to be 'Wiccan' always seem to make a mess of themselves and have a Christian conversion experience whereupon they lay all their troubles at the door at their previous withcraft experience, even though they wouldn't know witchcraft if it snuck up and bit them on their whitebread hiney. I personally find Wicca, and all the hybrid magickal thought paths to be ultimately detrimental to the paths of true seekers, as the behaviors of some people who are drawn into this Charmed, Wicca thing make us all look bad, and should instead be drawn into the asylum.

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