Why do most Christians find Wicca holy icons to be Demonic, such as pentagrams, etc.?
Honestly, I think this question would be more appropriately addressed in the Christian section. To find out why Christians believe what they do, you are best served by asking a Christian. Wicca is not about Christianity or demons. I’ve thought long and hard about this, and have decided to try to answer your question. I do know what I was taught about it when I was a Christian. Most Christians believe that Wiccan ritual items and icons are demonic/evil/of the devil/Satanic because they have been taught by other Christians, whom they trust, that they are. This is the same reason that most humans believe anything to be true – someone they trust said so. The sheer number of outspoken, prominent Christians teaching this message gives it credibility to Christians. Outspoken ultra-conservative Christians who either deliberately spread misinformation, or who simply do not perform even rudimentary research, do not help matters. Please see: http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcr1.htm This sit
The first, and most obvious answer, is fear. Wiccan practices come from primitive cultures and thus their rituals and icons are something of a throw-back to modern civilisation. Dancing around a fire, naked- while at one time would be nothing more than a spirited celebration, is now-a-days considered unusual, and thus feared. Not helping this any, is the fact that the Christian religion feeds on the fear of it’s followers (i.e. “god-fearing” men) and teaches them that anything that isn’t directly christian could be a tool for the devil’s manipulation. Mix the two in a pot of uncertainty and you get Wiccans with unusual habits, and Christians fearing uncertain things for the work of the devil… and it’s easy to see why Wicca is associated with satanic rituals and black masses. While this seems like an unfortunate coincidence, it is admitedly egged on by Christians hoping to convert the ancient Britons and Celts, by telling them that a horned god is the devil, and that their pentagram i
From what I have been able to learn so far: Wicca is a Neopagan religion, which started in the late 1940s. However, its symbols, days of celebration, beliefs and deities go back to about 800 B.C.E. and the beginnings of ancient Celtic society. Some Wiccan are + Monotheistic, recognizing a single supreme being, “The All” or “The One” + Duotheistic, worshiping a female Goddess and a male God, “the Lady and Lord” + Polytheistic, recognizing many ancient Gods and Goddesses, like Pan, Diana, Dionysius, Fergus, etc. + Atheistic, viewing the Goddesses and Gods as symbols, not living entities Some Wiccans consider Wicca and Witchcraft to be the same thing. Others think that Wicca (a religion) and Witchcraft (the practice of magic by anyone) are different things. Most Wiccans practice magic. However, some concentrate only on the spirituality of the Wiccan religion and do not practice magic. In Christianity, Satan is a fallen angel, the devil. Wiccans recognize neither Christ nor Satan and are t
