Before Christianity was Wicca, before anyone has a heart failure or something of that nature let me explain what Wcca is and then you form your own opions. Wicca is a broad religion having many different variations to it I guess, it breaks off the Paganism branch. Defined by Websters Dictionary as “a religion influenced by pre-Christian beliefs and practices of western Europe that affirms the existence of supernatural power (as magic) and of both male and female deities who inhere in nature and that emphasizes ritual observance of seasonal and life cycles” That is what it is defined as in the dictionary, now let me tell you how people who live that faith define it as…..
Wicca to me and many others, who I have talked to in my many years of being Wiccan, is an eath based religion who live to not only protect nature, but to nurture it, to live it as a life of warmth, giving, loving, healing….. Christians out there see Wcca as a devil worshiping religion, yet I am here to tell you as a former Wiccan and a new Christian, how could they have worshiped the devil when that is a Christian belief? That is NO where in the Wiccan belief system whatsoever. Christians took the Horned God, who is nothing more then the equal part of the Goddess but in male form, and made it out to be the “devil” for the Wiccans/Pagans. That is not possible in the least little bit, as I said before hand Wiccans/Pagans do not believe in the devil. The Horned God has horns to represent his authority, his nature of what he was, the ruler of the woodlands, the hunt, the animals.
There are so many similiarities in the Wiccan religion and Christianity that you would be surprised. Take the Holy Trinity in Christianity you’ve got the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit; in Wicca you’ve got the Mother, Maiden, and the Crone. I am sure that if you look into every religion of the world you will see some sort of Trinity within it. Christianity has the Ten Commandments, Wiccans…they have got the 13 Principles of life.
As I said, Wicca is an Earth based religion, no “sacrifices” of any kind, just the love of the earth and each other. True there are some Wiccan’s out there that give the religion a bad name but the majority of the followers do it right, and follow with their hearts not their egotistical attitudes.
The Life of A Mother 