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Jumping in... I'm Wiccan....

A few clarifications:

1) The Burning Times sucked, but actually had very little to do with Witchcraft. Furthermore, the death count of millions is a major exaggeration. It was based on some exceedingly dodgy statistical extrapolations. The exact death count is unknown and unknowable, but is generally estimated to be a few hundred thousand. Of those victims, few had anything to do with any form of Witchcraft. Mind you, they were accused of such, but the truth is that a vast majority of them were Christians. (It is interesting to note that one of the people executed as a Heretic was guilty of the unpardonable sin of translating the Bible into English.) Some of them were even executed for pointing out that the system was a little unbalanced. Suggesting anything other than execution == guilt meant that you were saying that the Holy Church made mistakes.

2) A ludicrous number of Wiccans are a) obnoxious and intolerant, b) self-righteous, c) delusional, or d) some combination of the three. The same can be said of any religion.

3) "Wicca", as introduced by Gardner, was created in the 1950's as a patchwork of many sources, including the Golden Dawn (of which Gardner was a member). Most modern practice of the religion bears almost no resemblance to the religion described by GBG in Witchcraft Today, unless you're talking to a Gardnerian or Alexandrian.

I myself am an eclectic Wiccan, which means that my beliefs are a patchwork of "Traditional" Wicca and about a billion other sources.

heheh... I'm heavily obsessed with Germanic and Nordic paganism.

Well, I'd like to take this occassion to point out that the main reason the more dogmatic religions are attacked so often is that their adherents have a nasty habit of entering any discussion on the subject with the sole aim of bringing as many people as possible around to their own point of view, considering retaining the opinions they began the discussion with the only acceptable outcome. This is proper reason to kick them in the nads repeatedly until they pitch up everything they've eaten for the past two days. A Wiccan, on the other hand, is assumed to be more interested in personal growth, which is welcome anywhere, making them difficult not to like. Ahem...until, of course, you meet one who's just as dogmatic and annoying as the worst fundie you've ever known, in which case the earlier suggestion of violence applies.

not true at all. i have read into this BS and it is BS!
i can post a long ass catholic rant about it. NO; i'm not a dambed catholic.

this is not so this is a lie that even some christians support again i can supply amply evidance this is incorrect. and this historian thing is not supported by facts eather.

more bull shite and wicca is a new religion comrade. more crap..

so true!

i am of the theory of gods grace. good pagans have it alot better then bad christians..