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To: alt.religion.wicca.moderated
From: "Yowie" 
Subject: Christian Wicca
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:42:26 CST

Can't remember who oringainly posted it now, but someone found the
"Christian Wicca" group on the internet, and came to the conclusion that the
group really didn't have a good understandign of what Christianity *or*
Wicca was all about.

Having joined that Yahoo group out of curiousity, I now concur. While I"m
not going to say the faith of anyone in that group is not genuine (because
they all seem quite sincere) it seems to me that they have taken bits of
peices of both paths and mooshed them together, mostly based on one book
written by a a Nancy someoneorother. Nothing wrong with playing religion
buffet, thats exactly what I've done as well, but I wouldn't consider myself
both a Christian *and* a Wiccan as there are some parts that are just flatly
incompatable, at least, in the forms of Christianity and Wicca I"m familiar
with. The group seems to have a blind spot for those inherent differences.
Oh well, 

That being said, however, it has provided me with a great deal of food for
thought, and set me off down another trail - this time a Christian one.
Oddly, I can feel myself being called back into Christianity. Don't get me
wrong, I don't think I"ll ever have "blind" faith again, and I will probably
always be a sceptic with a passion for the "old ways", but I have discovered
The Celtic Church, a form of Christianity not complicated by the Nicean
council or other err, political, influences (or at least, those influences
have been kept to a minimum) and have found it to be most refreshing. There
are still a tonne of questions in my head (and this time, I am not going to
be bullied into thinking that doubting and questioning is some kind of
"sin") but at the moment it really does feel like a refreshing change for
the better.

Doesn't mean I'm not going to leave this group though - too many friendly
faces, good discussions and who could leave the Bailey's supply anyway?

Yowie

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