It is actually not pleasant to consider the differences between
religions. Those
considerations bring about the thoughts of the innumerable
conflicts that also exist
between the religions as a result. Let us first address the conflict
issue.
There have been religious wars from the time that religion began!
There is no greater
dream than the dream of see the wars between religions end. How
many bitter historical
memories does the word, “religions” evoke! Religions have caused
some of the most
cruel and savage events in history, leaving on the face of humanity
the most hideous
scars, to the shame of our race. Alas, that is not only past history,
ancient or medieval;
almost all the situations of serious tension on our earth in the
present day still have
religious coloring.
It is very easy to recognize that those tragic events both today and
in the past, have
usually had, and still have, motives which are less religious than
practical, ethnic,
economic, ideological, or of other origin. Nevertheless, strictly
religious factors have
indeed been operative in some of those painful conflicts. It is more
than time to put an
end to all that trouble! We have an acute and common awareness
of the urgency of this
need.
This page will focus on two very large words, “Christianity” and
“Wicca.” In so doing,
we wish not to make one better or more valid than the other. We
are Wiccan, yes. We
know many Christians. Many of those Christians we know are also
some of our closest
friends and some are even family members! The reason that it is
said that these words
are so large is because they both encompass a very large group of
traditions. Christianity
has many different denominations, doctrines and viewpoints. Wicca
has many different
traditions, doctrines and viewpoints.
There is just one of the many things they have in common. Oh! Did
that shock you?!
Many people are very amazed to find that there are more
similarities between
Christianity and Wiccan than there are differences! We will explore
those similarities in
depth.
One similarity that the two religions have is persecution. In the
early days of the
Christian religion, there was a perceived threat in the Roman
government by this religion.
In efforts to minimize the threat a law was created to illegalise all
“new” religions. This
made Christianity illegal. The pagan religions in Rome at that time
were spared, as they
were not considered new. The Jewish religion was spared, as it was
also not considered
new.
Christians were tortured and killed by the hundreds. There were
atrocities of
unbelievable description done to them. The brutal treatment was a
sport for the ones
against them. People died rather than abandon their beliefs.
In history there is also a dark time for the Wiccans often known as
the “burning times.”
In that time, the Christians came to the nations in Europe in order
to evangelize them to
Christianity. The people they found there already had well
established religions that
were the foundations to the Wiccan religion we have today. The
terrible happenings of
the burning times are very well documented in many places. This is
not the place to go
into the specifics of what was done. History does present a
noteworthy resemblance to
what happened to the Christians at the hands of the Romans in the
beginnings of that
religion. The people that would not submit to Christianity and
denounce their religion
were tortured and killed.
So, you see, there were atrocities that happened to both paths
Many people see Christianity and Wicca being about as opposite as
day and night.
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