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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not the OP, I would like to clarify something about the Wiccan perception of God/Goddess.  While I cannot speak for all Wiccans,
To me it is important to remember that the Creator inherently has no body.  The Creator is neither male nor female.  Whether we use the name Yahweh, Allah, Jesus, Buddah, etc., these are all just constructs that allow our feeble human minds to wrap our minds around the idea of GOD.

It has been very liberating and validating for me as a born and bred Catholic to contemplate God as a Goddess instead of only the male principle.  To think of God as the Mother.  To think of femininity in all of its manifestations as being connected to the divine.  I always felt alienated from the Catholicism of my youth for what to me was its clear misogyny.  I rejected prayer and faith of any kind for about 15 years.  Discovering Paganism and an alternative vision of God - the Goddess - allowed me to embrace, and be embraced by, faith again.

Pagans revere nature, the waxing and waning of the moon, the mystery of the moon's 28 day cycle, so like our own natural cycle.  We tune into the coming spring, celebrate the greening and blooming of summer, store up our energy in the fall, and rest in winter.

I feel as if the Judeo-Christian faiths of my youth robbed me of my inheritance as a woman who is just as connected to the divine as anyone else.  When you start to research religion, and how many common religious themes we still talk about today are repackaged from older religions - some matriarchal - you start to feel as if somebody "pulled on over on you".  Religion is not only made up of myths, but the myths are specifically structured to reinforce the goals of an oppressive ruling class.

"Many faces or facets, one god" was a freeing concept for me.  Whatever human imagery I choose to cloak the Creator in as I think about God, pray to God, commune with God.... God is indifferent.  God will reach back to you however you need Her too, with the face of a Mother or a Father or... a Goat!  If that's what floats your boat.

The divine is always there, whispering to us, waiting for us to reach out.  Traditional religion poisoned the well for me for a long time.... paganism liberated me.

I doubt some posters on this thread can understand it but, that's how it is for me.

As for the definition of good and evil.  I know the difference between light and dark.  I know chocolate from vanilla.  I know good from evil in my soul, from my toes to the ends of my hair.  I don't need a book or ten commandments chiseled in stone to tell me what's wrong or right.

I agree that we wouldn't want a free for all and that's what laws and morality are for.  But the Bible is not the only source of morality.  The Bible is merely one codification, one expression of morality (and evil if you read it) and SOME people may need it spelled out.  I don't need to be told not to lie, steal, or cause any sort of pain to others.  The very idea of causing pain revolts me.

"And harm none, do what you will".[/quote]

What I find most interesting is that the folks who say that don't need a religious/Bible/etc to know right from wrong, good from evil, etc WERE, in fact, raised in a faith that denounces these very things. So, while you say you don't need religion to tell you these things, religion did, in fact, teach you these things. [/quote]

Wrong. I was raised with no religion at all. My mom was forced to go to Catholic school and hated it, felt as if she did not need to attend church and follow some ridiculous Catholic teachings in order to have a relationship with God, and thus refused to instill any type of religion in my brother and I. I know little about religion in general, however I have a very good idea of right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, etc. I have actually said something to this effect for quite a few years. I did not require religion to tell me these things.

Guess what? The Bible, Torah, Quran weren't written by God, Allah, whoever. They were written by some dudes...literally. Just some very unremarkable guys a long time ago. Why does anyone need to read and believe what they wrote and thought in order to learn the difference between right vs. wrong? [/quote]

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