Wicca or Neopaganism?

[Opalmoon]

Title.

Well seeing the popularity of religion threads I have a question for you.

What are you or would you rather be? Wiccan or Druid/Celtic/Asatrù/Hellenic Pagan./any of the other Neopagan religions.

AND YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE BETWEEN THOSE 2, there's no other way round here.

[Dªrĸ]

Wiccan, just because it sounds a lot cooler than any of the other ones.

And to be quite honest, I haven't heard of EITHER of these religions.

[Opalmoon]

That's what I wanted to find out with this.

[kitty princess]

Wicca. Btw: WHAT IS WICCA ANYWAY? I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Opalmoon]

It's a nature-based religion with an emphazis on rituals, magic(k) and they usually have a dualistic pantheon, though others just have one deity. Usually it's the horned god and the triple goddess.
They also follow the tri-fold law (anything you do, good or bad, comes back to you trice), have their own institutions (Wiccan Coven of Canada for example) and also schools. The members call themselves witches or Neopagans and they celebrate Earth-based events like the Equinoxes as well as rituals based on nature. You can recognize them wearing a pentagram although there are many religions which use that one nowadays.

[Bloodline Massacre]

Wicca cause they wear Pentagrams. I <3 Pentagrams.

[Opalmoon]

^lol Neopagans wear them too.xD Also some Christians and Jews.

You're a member of LaVey's church right?

(Are some of you randomly voting for stuff cause they sound cool?)

[Красивая Ведьма]

Wicca because it is far more logical than the other religions.

[Bloodline Massacre]

(11-04-2009 09:15 PM)Opalmoon Wrote:  ^lol Neopagans wear them too.xD Also some Christians and Jews.

You're a member of LaVey's church right?

(Are some of you randomly voting for stuff cause they sound cool?)

Yeah, I'm LeVayan.

And yes, I voted randomly.

[Opalmoon]

Well the difference between both is that Neopagans take pride of being more historically accurate. Wiccans consider themselves as modern witchcraft users and take their roots from accounts about ancient witchcraft (Aradia or Gardner's books for example), whereas Neopaganist movements are usually reconstructionist. Meaning that they try to revive the old Pagan religions like f.ex. Asatrù --> old Germanic/Nordic, Nova Roma --> Roman Paganism, etc.

[Bloodline Massacre]

Screw Wiccan, I'm going w/ Neopagan.

[Opalmoon]

Lol this thread is funny

[Dªrĸ]

Oh, if Wicca has magicks, then I choose Wicca... again. =)

[Napoléon]

Celtic ftw

[Father Wolf]

Every wiccan i met, i ended up hating. Probably, because i have a deep hate for New Age Bullshit. Most of them are hypocritical a******s, who want to be witches and wizards, to upset mommy and daddy, but do not have the balls to be Satanist.

So i guess i would vote Neopagan if anything, because i was one for most of high school... till i got laid, and toke a whole bunch of drugs and had an empithomy, that i would stop believing in the super-natural bullshit, and get logical... which i did.

Edit: to add to the list of reasons i had said empithomy, 4chan.

[Akira Udou]

Neopaganism.

[Opalmoon]

Aaaah wait forgot about New Age.XD
I'm gonna make a thread about that too, just wait.=3

*rubs hands and hopes this becomes more famous than Atheism vs Christianity* =D

None of these religions are relied to Satanism in any way though. They're quite far away from it, as much as all the other non-Satanist religions.
But it's true that LaVeyan Satanists may refer to themselves as witches though (the concept of the Satanic Witch).

And true you'll always find honest religious people and those who just want to be rebels and go against their parent's beliefs.

Wolf: What did you end up as now?

[Bloodline Massacre]

(11-04-2009 09:50 PM)Father Wolf Wrote:  Every wiccan i met, i ended up hating. Probably, because i have a deep hate for New Age Bullshit. Most of them are hypocritical a******s, who want to be witches and wizards, to upset mommy and daddy, but do not have the balls to be Satanist.

So i guess i would vote Neopagan if anything, because i was one for most of high school... till i got laid, and toke a whole bunch of drugs and had an empithomy, that i would stop believing in the super-natural bullshit, and get logical... which i did.

Edit: to add to the list of reasons i had said empithomy, 4chan.

I <3 you.

[~TwIsTeD~]

(11-04-2009 09:26 PM)Opalmoon Wrote:  Lol this thread is funny

[- Catman]

Wicca scares the heck out of me. So I guess not that.