WICCA:

Firstly, let me tell you what wicca is not. Wicca is not Evil, Satanic, Wrong, or Anti-Christian. We don't worship the devil as some who aren't as open minded as we would hope them to be see it, the devil and the worship of the devil is a purely christian creation, a response by desperate people in times long gone to an oppressive church that sought to hold total control by any means necessary over those whom it should have nurtured, protected and loved as a parent does a child.

Wiccans do not believe in sin or in ultimate good and evil, good and evil are in the intent of the person taking action. Wiccans also believe in what goes around comes around, we know it as the Three-fold Law: What you send out comes back to you threefold. Wicca has only one law: An it harm none do what thou will, those simple words cover everything that matters in our daily and spiritual life. Do no harm. Once you can live in that belief then you can live in peace and harmony with everything around you and that's what Wicca is to me, a philosophy, a way of life, a religion. Living in peace and harmony with the world around you and the Universe in general.

Wicca is also a nature based religion but to some people, worshipping a tree, grass or a rock is ludicrous. To contrast one path: Christian philosophy teaches: One God, One image for God and that God is seperate from the world up away in heaven. Wiccans and all pagan philosophies...let's take a moment here to clarify that...all wiccans are pagan but not all pagans are wiccan. Paganism covers a wide rage of ancient belief systems.

Anyway, Wiccans believe that the Goddess gave birth to the universe out of love, there was no command to exist. The Goddess and God are present in EVERYTHING, nothing is apart from nature and our deities are all around and within us. A tree, grass, a rock, all have a spark of the divine in them. The world is evolving, dynamic and alive, the Gaia concept comes into play here. The Gaia Hypothesis was put forward by Dr. James Lovelock in the late 1960's and was better defined in a book he wrote called Gaia: A new look at life on Earth which was published in 1979...a nice "new" concept that wiccans and pagans everywhere have recognized as fact for thousands of years (go figure).

Lastly, Wicca is a very environmentally conscious religion, how can one worship nature and not WORSHIP nature, its beauty, its abundance, even its violence. Wiccans try, where they can, to live with nature, it's the source of us all no matter what religion we practice or background we come from. Preserve nature and we preserve ourselves.

More on my personal beliefs (hopefully soon) can be found below

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