01-22-2024, 02:54 PM
Interesting. Looking at this with an open mind, I find that I don't particularly care how people worship or their rituals, as long as their ideals aren't a horrific blasphemy against the Earth's creatures.
Full disclosure: I can't help it, I would find it fairly impossible to befriend a worshipper of Satan. I don't, however, believe that adherents of Wicca are proponents of the dark side. I hear the term "Pagan" bandied about sometimes, and think that is often a junk drawer for religious boundaries of people who don't understand a culture. When I was a boy, I lived in a place near Shoshoni tribal grounds/reservation. Their religion was characterized by those outside of it as "pagan".
What I found is that their theology had a symbolic Father, Son and Great Spirit (holy ghost), and the chanting and such was prayer in a language which I didn't understand. I think I would have to delve deeply into Wicca before I felt comfortable passing judgement upon it, and even then, it is my belief that the IS, the Godhead, God grants us all free will for a very good reason.
This is the primary reason why I've never felt a conflict between faith and science; different terms measured by similar phenomena.
Short answer: Whatever blows his hair back is fine with me, as long as it doesn't cause a detriment to innocent people or creatures.
Full disclosure: I can't help it, I would find it fairly impossible to befriend a worshipper of Satan. I don't, however, believe that adherents of Wicca are proponents of the dark side. I hear the term "Pagan" bandied about sometimes, and think that is often a junk drawer for religious boundaries of people who don't understand a culture. When I was a boy, I lived in a place near Shoshoni tribal grounds/reservation. Their religion was characterized by those outside of it as "pagan".
What I found is that their theology had a symbolic Father, Son and Great Spirit (holy ghost), and the chanting and such was prayer in a language which I didn't understand. I think I would have to delve deeply into Wicca before I felt comfortable passing judgement upon it, and even then, it is my belief that the IS, the Godhead, God grants us all free will for a very good reason.
This is the primary reason why I've never felt a conflict between faith and science; different terms measured by similar phenomena.
Short answer: Whatever blows his hair back is fine with me, as long as it doesn't cause a detriment to innocent people or creatures.
