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What do you think about christian wicca? What do you feel about it?
I have read a few books by Christian witches. It's an interesting path.
If you are interested in the mixing or pagan and Christian ideas I suggest reading some books by mark Townsend. He's an Anglican priest and a pagan (druid). Listening to an interview by him is what first got me interested in druidry. I think he left the Anglican Church now and is ordained under a different denomination.
What do you think about christian wicca? What do you feel about it?
Santeria is basically Christian Voodoo. It would be closer to Wicca than Christianity.
It's no more syncretic than pious Hindus adding a Jesus figurine and a Buddha statue to the other deities of their household altar; or former African slaves adding both Amerindian deities and Catholic saints to their pantheon of loas; or Siberian shamen integrating orthodox crosses into their healing ceremonies.
Heck, even Christianity started out as a syncretic mix of Jewish eschatology and pan-hellenic mystery religions, and Islam drew heavily upon Nestorian and monastic traditions.
As far as I am concerned, syncretism is not only not much of a problem, it's virtually unavoidable: exclusivist world views simply cannot see or acknowledge that, even while they themselves are directly shaped by their contact with (or even their rejection of) competing ideologies.
Admittedly, Christo-paganism *does* seem like a weird mix when looked at from the vantage point of Christian orthodoxy. But in the end, it's not that much weirder than a Jewish sect declaring that their semi-mythical founder was in fact God Incarnate, sacrificed and risen - something that'd be utterly anathema to Judaism and its conception of divinity.
What do you think about christian wicca? What do you feel about it?
While Orthodox/Catholics are definately a mix of Roman and Jewish thought the NT is more closer to Apocalyptic Jewish asceticism/Zorastrian thought from my reasearch into early pre christian Jewish groups that had similar sayings such as the Essenes.
What do you think about christian wicca? What do you feel about it?
Santeria is basically Christian Voodoo. It would be closer to Wicca than Christianity.
Except that many holy sites in monotheistic religions are old re-purposed pagan sites, many holy days are old pagan days (Easter, Xmas), some traditions and a great many cultural norms (calenders, days, architecture, medicine, accounting, maths) that the church accepts are the direct result of a previous pantheistic religion, and sometimes even folk-heros or saints ride upon the backs of previous figures, or their stories do.
Osiris, born of a virgin.
Mithras, born of a virgin
Dionysus, born of a virgin
Jesus....
The flood.. an OLD story, with existing tablets that predate The OT
I can't be bothered to list more: most people here are educated and either know it or can look and find-out.
Much of that would go right back into how one defines both Wicca and Christianity. With Wicca, if speaking in the sense of where nature is revered, in that sense a believer of Christ will have common ground and in some way can be construed as being in agreement with Wicca in the same way that one can be in agreement as a Christian with many aspects of Aminism. I've shared before how there are many religions where there was connection with Christianity -as it concerns the focus on nature being present/having to respect its power. For myself, when seeing the Animistic spirituality aspect, I couldn't help but be reminded on Christianity and the ways others for it have addressed.....for many are not aware of the ways that Christ addresses Folk Religions..What do you think about christian wicca? What do you feel about it?