There are times were you have to forget about being popular and stand up for what you believe in. This is one of those cases. I make it no secret that I have troubles with many eclectic wiccans, specially eclectic wiccans that openly surround themselves with "love , light, and happiness". Do I have reasons for being so down on these people? Yes I do. Does this view go along with my desire to have religious tolerence? Yes it does. This is thier path and not my path. While I might disagree with it, because I think that they are not balanced. It is for them to live, and not me.
What does this have to do with christianity? Alot, in my opinion. Thanks to eveerything that I have learned in the last few years I see christianity in a bad light. Christianity is nothing more than a dualistic jewish cult. These early christians couldn't handle thier god killing and doing all these bad things, so they created ...SATAN. Satan is actually a hebrew verb meaning "to stand against" In the jewish torah, everywhere that 'satan' is mentioned it is meant in that manner. That is why the christians have this dualistic view point of " You are either for god or against god."
The bible has over 30,000 verse in it. And most christians haven't read the entire bible like a book. What they do is pick and choose 100 verses and base thier beliefs on those verses. They picked out the 100 verses that support thier beliefs and makes them feel good about themselves. Anyone that has actually read the bible or done any bible research knows that there are hundreds of bible contradictions. If a none believer points out a contradiction, they are told that they are reading it out of context. That some verses are parables and ironic statements. These christians are buffet bible followers. pick and choose what they can use and want and ignore everything else.
In the years of debating and dealing with christians I have grown an attitude of them being shallow hypocrits. They are weak and lazy as well. I say this because of the heavan rule concerning jesus. That all you have to do is accept jesus as your savior and all your sins are forgiven. All you have to do is believe and you don't have to try to be a good person. You don't have to work on yourself to get into heavan. Because the fruits of a man's lavor can't earn his way into heavan... I think that was added to make another control tool for the priests.
So what does all this have to do with eclectic wicca? I would say that half of the eclectic wiccans are following the history of christianity. Maybe it is because the growth of wicca was spurred by the churches not allowing female ministers. Causing many upset women to adopt wicca so that they can have some level of control religiously in thier lives. They were having thier christian ways affect thier wicca structure. They went through all of the pagan pathways and started to cherry pick what they liked, and shunned the rest. The rede was turned into this dogmatic law, "Harm none, so it be done". That was a positive and loving statement, so they turned it into a law.
Gods and goddesses were also cherry picked to fit the needs of that person. Pantheons were ignored and the gods and goddesses were served in a buffet for the eclectic wiccans to choose from. Where the christians used verses, many eclectics used a certain god or goddess. "I follow the goddess Demeter, this makes me a hedge witch." or " I honor the god, Dian Cecht, thus I am a healer." I watched and loved a youtube video talking about the gods and goddesses being used like pokemon. I have talked to eclectics that change thier gods and goddess regularly. They never build a relationship with the a certain god or goddess, they use them on a as needed basis.
I follow a Celtic path, I honor only the celtic gods and goddesses. The hardest work that I had to do was to find the Gaulic names for the gods and goddesses. I didn't use the Irish name for this god and the Scottish name for that god. Some of the gods and goddesses that I honor are not popular or considered nice, but they are a part of the Celtic tradition and so I honor them all.
Light and love... Many of these eclectic pagans focus on light and love. They mirrored the christian stance of only using the positive attributes of a pathway and shun the rest. I have been in pagan rooms and chatted with eclectics that said that I am too negative. I am blunt and lack some of the finer points. I have seen these eclectics run away from anything that doesn't make them happy or they complain about how negative people are. Recently in a pagan facebbok group, I went through just that. I was even called a "problem poster". We criticize the christians for being so closed minded, but these eclectic wiccans can be just as bad. I am not wording my statements in a happy tone, so I am attacking someone's path. JUst like if you say something that is not inline with christian beliefs you are attacking jesus.
I have seen this term used by others and I have adopted it as well. Fluff Bunny is a term I use to describe a pagan that is so concerned with love and light that they have lost all balance. They have become fundies on this stance. They can't handle negativity on any level. If you can't talk in a loving happy manner they want you to be quiet, and you can't argue because that is negative.
Life is not a black and white world. These eclectic wiccans have the view of light and love, which is 2 dimensional thinking just like the christian stance of .. You are either for god or against god. There are thousands shades of grey in between black and white. There are thousands of colors as well. If you shun certain aspects of the world you are missing out on so much. The crone is considered by many as a dark goddess of death and endings. I look at her as warmth as well. She is the grandma that has wisdom to offer. Grandmas are known to take care of the children when needed to. Once you lift that viel of gray you will find a heart of warmth.
Conflict is a stressful thing for many of these eclectics. With thier love and light stance, when situations come that require someone to stand-up for an important cause, they run away . Christian groups like DC-40 wanted to impose christianity as the primary religion of the US. We needed people to stand up and work against this group. But the Love and light wiccans refused to help. DC-40 wanted to take away thier rights to follow wicca, but they refused to do anything. They will run and they will hide, and they will complain about anyone that tries to get support to defend pagan beliefs. To them we should just stop the hostilities, we are being to negative. Just like the christians that proclaim "Love your nieghbor", it only counts when the nieghbor is doing what you want him to do.
If you are an Eclectic wiccan, you are free to believe as you want. These are the rules that I have to place on myself first. If someone believes in a relgion and it makes them happy and they don't go around trying to push it on anyone else, I am happy for that person. I will respect your views as yours. But I will find it hard to take you serious when you can't accept negativity or anything considered dark . Reality has both positive and negative events happening constantly, sometimes we have to accept it.
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