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by hannah felton on June 3rd, 2004

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I heard that Wicca followers worship the devil. Is this true?

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  • by Scoundral on February 8th, 2005

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    The question has two sides to the story which could both be called unreliable. Frankly, it's hard to believe anything religious orders claim as it's mostly laiden with misinformation and propaganda. However, It's my personal belief is that "Satan" was personified as a direct reflection of the Wiccan male diety.

    Modern day UK was originally home to the Celts and the Britons, who practiced pagan religions which have become the base for most modern day Wiccan religions. They were hunter/forager peoples originally, and there religion is rooted in that lifestyle- the female aspect of the Diety was fertility and growth (foraging/farming). The male aspect represented the hunt, the hunter and prey. This male diety was often personified as having horns and hoofs, being resemblant of the bounty of the hunt.

    When the christian influence turnt it's eyes onto the island, they used fear factor to gain a following (i.e. if you dont worship our god, you'll suffer for an eternity). to help reinforce that scare tactic, they told of an evil god who resembled a goat. So if any britons took a bite, they would realise that their god was actually the 'devil' deceiving them.

    Christian tabernacle might claim that wiccans worship the devil and they saved them, or they might claim that this history is completely a lie, either way... it's all in how you look at it.

    If you beleive without a doubt that there is only one god and one devil, then yes, according to your definition of the devil, wiccans worship the devil... but so do buddhists, hindu, shinto, and everyone else who doesn't follow judeo-christian faith.

    However, Wiccans do not claim to worship the christian devil, not do they acknowledge that he even exists, so if there is a devil and they do worship him- it's not intentional.

    Just one last note: some Satan-worshippers may mistakenly refer to themselves as Wiccans, only serving to escalate this misinformation, but they are simply incorrect about what wicca is and I suppose you cant blame them for being misinformed.

    No, Wiccans do not worship the devil, they dont even believe he exists anymore than Christians believe Zeus exists.

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    • AntigoneRising

      by AntigoneRising on December 13th, 2005

    • Well stated.

      hedge-rider

      by hedge-rider on March 29th, 2009

    • The religious practices of the ancient Celts have exactly ZERO to do with Wicca. In other words, nothing about WIcca was derived from the Celts. The ancient Celts were not hunter/gatherers. Ancient Celts did not believe in a "female aspect of the Deity". They didn't believe in a Deity, period. They didn't believe in aspects of a Deity, period. They believed in multiple distinct deities, male and female. The Celts never had any horned deity. Let me guess: the crap you're spewing came from a book published by Llewellyn Press, didn't it? Throw it away and for the sake of all pagans, stop repeating it.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on August 4th, 2009

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos

      Cernunnos (also Cernenus[1] and Cern) is a pagan Celtic god whose representations were widespread in the ancient Celtic lands of western Europe. As a horned god, Cernunnos is associated with horned male animals, especially stags and the ram-horned snake; this and other attributes associate him with produce and fertility.[2] Cernunnos is also associated mainly as the God of the Underworld.

      SoulFire

      by SoulFire on November 12th, 2009

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_of_the_Boatmen

      The Pillar of the Boatmen (Pilier des nautes) is a square-section stone bas-relief with depictions of several deities, both Gaulish and Roman. Dating to the first quarter of the first century AD, it originally stood in a temple in the Gallo-Roman civitas of Lutetia (modern Paris, France) and is one of the earliest pieces of representational Gaulish art to carry a written inscription (Hatt, 1952)

      Written in the Latin language with some Gaulish language features, some deity names are Latin and some Gaulish. It provides one of the few records of the name Cernunnos

      SoulFire

      by SoulFire on November 12th, 2009

    • Anonymous - Perhaps your particular brand of Wicca does not include the Horned God but many brands do. Wicca is a very diverse faith that goes from nature worship to worship of over 300 Gods and Goddesses. These Gods and Goddesses were derived from ancient paganism to today's re-naming of various God/Goddess forms.

      SoulFire

      by SoulFire on November 12th, 2009

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