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Subject: Re: Christianity it not original

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CJ

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Date Posted: 14:07:50 11/01/04 Mon
In reply to: CJ 's message, "Christianity it not original" on 13:40:17 10/31/04 Sun

>First wicca is one of the most ancient religons on the
>face of the earth so to call it new age is
>contradictory in terms. And the only way christianity
>came to light was to force it upon people and those
>who could not be forced into then the catholics in
>particular would adopt holidays from the ancient pagan
>beliefs to suit the needs of persons who felt they
>were not selling out. Christmas was originally a
>Pagan holiday, Believing in an afterlife was a pagan
>belief. The only people who wer ever mislead were
>those of the crusades when if you refused to beleive
>in jesus and one god you had to practice underground.
>People remain closed minded. Ask a true wiccan if
>they truly despise anyone they will say no and they
>force no one to join their/our beliefs. Perhaps the
>evolution or rebirth of wicca is due to the fact that
>the church has let people down. They have truly not
>been there for anyone in fact when their minions
>committed unspeakable acts they hid it from the
>people. Why does the pope live richely when all
>the churches have to close? The Church is filled with
>contradictions and can be picked apart day in day out
>but thats not the point. The point is we are bornm
>with the right to believe in what we want and love who
>we want to and not the government nor church has the
>right to dictate to us which or who we put our faith
>in. God in the bible never meant for us to worship
>him the way persons do now he wishes us to simply
>beleive whether quietly or passionately but as I a
>christioan would not want to be forced into wiccan or
>such a wiccan does not wish to be preached to about
>christianity. this only manifests ignorance and war.
>Sorry if this offends anyone but it is how I feel.

For the record most wiccans do not take from the Gardner way of wicca I follow the celtic path in which I do not in fact beleive in the power of three in fact we do believe however that what you put out comes back if you hate then hate will return and if you love and are truly kind then that will also return.. What people need to understand is that Wicca has many orders and people do bend and shape to their satisfaction and there are many "new" orders to follow however like any religion it does change with time you can't expect wiccan or paganism to be ritualized the same as it was 1000 or even two hundred years ago. Of course it is going to evolve as did catholics over the years especially when the relgion was losing members they changed a lot made a lot of exceptions. But anyway the truth is both religions can be traced back to ancient orders and there is evidence anthropological eveidenc of this. However you do have to take the time to look for it. At any rate everyone takes their own beliefs and twists them to fit their needs and thats the simple truth but to go by one article about Gardner being the man inventing wicca is simply obserd. Gardner is the man who reintroduced wicca to the states kinda like the latin invasion or the british invasion of rock and roll in the 1960s and seventies oh what a twisted time. But he certainly was n ot the founder or inventer. To take this article for the mere words that are written is obsurd I would be more interested in what Anthropologists uncover than anything else. Anyway food for thought. CJ

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Re: Christianity it not original	silverfox	18:10:56 11/01/04 Mon
Re: Christianity it not original -- Abel, 20:48:44 11/01/04 Mon