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07 Oct 2007, 4:11 pm

The roots of Wicca go back to the Druids of Celtic society. The Romans were masters of ridicule.

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07 Oct 2007, 6:05 pm

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The roots of Wicca go back to the Druids of Celtic society. The Romans were masters of ridicule.

If you want to pretend your religion goes back thousands of years that's your right. However just because you lifted concepts from ancient religions doesn't change the fact that your religion was founded in the 50's.

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07 Oct 2007, 9:15 pm

Wicca is a new religion
witchcraft and paganism arre thousands of years old
the god was Pan
he was the symbol of man's basic instics
aka sex and desire
one of the reasons he was made to look evil
as Christians think sex is evil :roll: and it wasn't shunned to pagans
(they dance naked around a fire for ex) nudity is a sacred thing to wiccans
it shows you hide nothing before the gods

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07 Oct 2007, 9:52 pm

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(they dance naked around a fire for ex) nudity is a sacred thing to wiccans
it shows you hide nothing before the gods

Really?
Sounds very interesting, I want to join

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07 Oct 2007, 10:55 pm

:roll: mind you not all wiccans go skyclad (naked)
if your serious greenblue PM me

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07 Oct 2007, 10:58 pm

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:roll: mind you not all wiccans go skyclad (naked)
if your serious greenblue PM me

sorry, a little humor

and ignorance as well :oops:

I'm checking the link you provided.

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08 Oct 2007, 2:25 pm

what exactly is the purpose of being a wiccan? i think alot of people including myself are afraid of it because we immeadiatly think of witches and people putting curses on others.. maybe someone could explain what being a wiccan is all about? thanks.

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08 Oct 2007, 3:35 pm

The word "witch" translates to "wise" or "wise woman/man", which is why the rhp incorporates it with "evil".

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08 Oct 2007, 4:10 pm

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I think he just hates all religions
(Wicca is a religion)

It's not discrimination if you hate all of them equally.

Do you hate atheism, too? If you don't then you haven't covered all of your bases and are pushing discrimination.

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08 Oct 2007, 4:13 pm

GoatOnFire wrote:

Joybob wrote:

Kilroy wrote:

I think he just hates all religions
(Wicca is a religion)

It's not discrimination if you hate all of them equally.

Do you hate atheism, too? If you don't then you haven't covered all of your bases and are pushing discrimination.

I dont believe atheism counts here, as it is the absence of religion.

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08 Oct 2007, 4:18 pm

username88 wrote:

GoatOnFire wrote:

Joybob wrote:

Kilroy wrote:

I think he just hates all religions
(Wicca is a religion)

It's not discrimination if you hate all of them equally.

Do you hate atheism, too? If you don't then you haven't covered all of your bases and are pushing discrimination.

I dont believe atheism counts here, as it is the absence of religion.

If we are talking about discrimination it should count. Atheism is an alternative to religion, an atheist would be being discriminatory to hate all religons but not his own set of beliefs. That would be like an Native American person saying that he hates all races but does not hate Native Americans. It's slightly different because there is no alternative to race, unless you count mixed race. Race encompasses all people, so to not be discriminatory you have to hate everyone including yourself, or hate nobody. To get all of the belief systems that encompass humanity atheism would have to be included, too.

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08 Oct 2007, 4:53 pm

Your right, atheism is an alternitive to religion, however that doesnt make it a religion. It is a belief, but the word belief doesnt have to literally translate to "religion". So it does make sense for an atheist to claim they hate all religions, because their belief is not a religion.

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08 Oct 2007, 5:50 pm

username88 wrote:

I never said atheism was a religion, I just said that because not everybody has religion an atheist can't just claim to hate all religions without being discriminatory unless they hate themselves, too. If that makes any sense.

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08 Oct 2007, 5:50 pm

richardbenson wrote:

there's no such thing as a hex
and if a witch says there is
then he or she isn't a witch
all that is bull s**t

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08 Oct 2007, 6:28 pm

I actually thought about that as well before, as we have seen that on hollywood films and tv, as society might be bombarded with that kind of stereotypes a lot from different sources, including christianity, probably.

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08 Oct 2007, 6:59 pm

GoatOnFire wrote:

username88 wrote:

Im sorry but it still doesnt make sense, or at least to me. Lets leave it that way though because I dont think we will understand eachother here :lol:

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