Anonymous wrote:Are there any socially conservative Pagans or Wiccans?

I'm drawn to paganism but am not liberal and don't consider myself a feminist.

Pagans definitely, Wiccans no.

There is actually a (small, weird) white nationalist pagan subculture, esp. w/r/t the Norse gods.

There was an AMA a while back by a witch.

Are there any socially conservative Pagans or Wiccans?

I'm drawn to paganism but am not liberal and don't consider myself a feminist.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm.. I have friends who are solitary witches I find it interesting. I don't believe in it as a religion per se but more as a form of meditation with respect to spells, curses (by others) and being one with nature. I'm Catholic so that isn't going to change.

My mom is a Catholic very into the Saints, burying St. Francis, praying to specific Saints, she sprinkles holy water on the car, and just very ritualistic. Yet she cannot abide Wiccans and their hocus pocus buffoonery. I like that you havecwiccan friends and respect their practice, but have to ask why Catholicism is "religion," but Wicca is "meditation"?

She prefers her own hocus-pocus

Anonymous wrote:Hmm.. I have friends who are solitary witches I find it interesting. I don't believe in it as a religion per se but more as a form of meditation with respect to spells, curses (by others) and being one with nature. I'm Catholic so that isn't going to change.

My mom is a Catholic very into the Saints, burying St. Francis, praying to specific Saints, she sprinkles holy water on the car, and just very ritualistic. Yet she cannot abide Wiccans and their hocus pocus buffoonery. I like that you havecwiccan friends and respect their practice, but have to ask why Catholicism is "religion," but Wicca is "meditation"?

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Anonymous wrote:Wicca: Pretending to be an ancient religion since 1957.

So? Every religion was once new.

It's so bizarre when people try and legitimize some religions, and delegitimize others. It's all a form of mythology.

For what it's worth, pagan religions actually predate Christianity by 1,000's of years. Religions "of the book" like CHristianity and Judaism didn't develop until humans figured out how to read and write

And then the "people of the book" borrowed unwritten Pagan stories and turned them into hebrew and Christian stories

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Anonymous wrote:isn't "wicca" the sound pac man makes when he's eating those dots?

Wacca wacca wacca.

I can't tell if it's wicca or wacca



I could imagine the uproar back in pacman's heydey if the fundies had tried to connect the game to paganism

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Anonymous wrote:isn't "wicca" the sound pac man makes when he's eating those dots?

Wacca wacca wacca.

Classy.

What do you expect? There are posters interested in thoughtful discussion, but mostly DCUM is lousy with trolls.

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Anonymous wrote:isn't "wicca" the sound pac man makes when he's eating those dots?

Wacca wacca wacca.

Classy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wicca: Pretending to be an ancient religion since 1957.

So? Every religion was once new.

It's so bizarre when people try and legitimize some religions, and delegitimize others. It's all a form of mythology.

For what it's worth, pagan religions actually predate Christianity by 1,000's of years. Religions "of the book" like CHristianity and Judaism didn't develop until humans figured out how to read and write

Anonymous wrote:Wicca: Pretending to be an ancient religion since 1957.

So? Every religion was once new.

It's so bizarre when people try and legitimize some religions, and delegitimize others. It's all a form of mythology.

Anonymous wrote:isn't "wicca" the sound pac man makes when he's eating those dots?

Wacca wacca wacca.

isn't "wicca" the sound pac man makes when he's eating those dots?

Anonymous wrote:Hmm.. I have friends who are solitary witches I find it interesting. I don't believe in it as a religion per se but more as a form of meditation with respect to spells, curses (by others) and being one with nature. I'm Catholic so that isn't going to change.

British traditional witchcraft is really fascinating to me. It does seem like a meditation and moving energy. Not that different from prayer, but like you said more nature-based.

Needing to break curses by others?