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by Im BACK on July 28th, 2008

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Is Wicca a real religion?

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  • by Tom Terrific on February 12th, 2009

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    Prefatorily, it should be noted that the term "cult" is value-neutral; it is fundamentalists who think it primarily pejorative. "Cult" and "religion" are not mutually exclusive.

    Etymologically, the word "religion" connotes "relinking," referring to the relationship between man and the divine. While Wicca does not believe that man is "fallen" or out of communion with the divine, as Christianity does, most people, including at least some Wiccans (I am one) believe that we are progressing from a point of less spiritual awareness to a point of more spiritual awareness - which means that "religion" means the same thing to us as it does to a Christian: a means or approach to deepening communion with the divine.

    Because this is the essence of what "religion" is, I would say that any approach adopted to deepening communion with the divine is real if it is efficacious to that end. If your religion is playing croquet, and playing croquet deepens your communion with the divine, then your religion is real.

    Wicca is real insofar as it works. For some, it's real. For others, it's not.

    Just like Christianity, by the way.

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