Wiccans Offer Teens Love, Not False Hopes!

I am writing this article in response to the previous article ‘Raising Christian Teens in a Pagan Focused World’ published on March 10, 2006. I have read the article through and I believe it misrepresents pagans and Wiccans, and wish to help clarify why I feel this way and maybe help shed some light of why Wicca, witchcraft and general paganism can be an acceptable, enlightening and even empowering. Most of all I want to show that Wicca and witchcraft are defiantly not a satanic worship and are in no way ‘condemning’ people to hell. 

First off, I want to let you know why I feel I am competent enough to write this article and argue these points effectively and intelligently. I have studied Wicca and the older traditions of witchcraft for well over ten years now, and have become what I call a ‘Wiccan scholar’ in that I have a large library of books and other media to help in my studies and have done a lot of my own experimenting in my own spell casting and spirituality, to gain a deeper understanding of what works for me. I also have studied theology in general, including Christianity. I know a lot of people are going to scoff at me now “oh he reads books so he’s an expert?” Just remember, everything Christianity is based off of is found in a book, too. 

Now we’re to the meat of my article, the reasons why Wicca and witchcraft is an acceptable spirituality. Lets begin by looking at what debunkers of my faith say and I will respond shortly to each, I’ll only be touching on the most basic, and of course a few from the article I am responding to. The most famous detractions to Wicca are usually that we are Satanists, we commit violent acts, we worship false Gods and Goddesses, we have illicit sex, we tempt young teens-especially women-away from their parents’ beliefs and, more rarely, that since Wicca is only based on ancient principles, that we are a false religion.