A response to a fight between Wiccans & Christians
While it's true that Wicca can barely be traced to any sort druidic practices and that many books by self-proclaimed Wiccans allow for individual variations, it's hardly the only religion that meets that characterization. The Christian Bible has been translated so many times, so many ways, that's is difficult for anyone who can't read the original language to get an exact copy of the text. Even then, the lack of vowels in the Old Testament makes things confusing. Then add that there are several versions of the stories (such as some discrepencies between the 4 gospels), the fact that many of the stories are based on older legends (the creation & the flood stories being based upon Mesopotamian legends for instance), and the fact that the texts selected as canon were selected well after they were written. And throw in a few medieval typos (copyos) such as Moses comming down from Mt.Sinai "in horns" instead of "in lights" (there's a famous sculpture depicting this somewhere). Hardly the original word of God, I'd say.

Then you have a gazillion different branches of Christianity each doing there own thing and most of them claiming to be the correct interrpretation, they're no more authentic than Wiccans.

But, that's missing the point. The point of religion (in my opinion) is not its authenticity, or how sensible you find its practicioners. It is the meaning that the faithful derive from the teachings. The morality, the hope, the purpose in life, the inspiration for art, whatever. True, religion has also inspired some rather horrible things, but the tendancy for conflict is something we have to learn to deal with as a world society, and I can not think of any religion that does not have the well being of people at its core.

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-FallenAngle
the geometric terror
devout atheist, well versed in Catholicism and some forms of neopaganism, and thinks they're all beautiful


Open Season On Lawn Deer

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