Many of us pagans were Christians at one time in our lives. One of the main reasons most of us left was the judgmental ways of the church over everyone else. You know what I am talking about, how the Christian church and its followers viewed everyone that didn't follow the group line as second class citizens. People that broke the church cannon were called sinners. There were the minor sins and the major sins, but they didn't care, you went against accepted church doctrine and you must be punished.
Every church had a slightly different view on everything , but they mostly agreed with the church down the street. And it is those little differences that caused other Christians to be called sinners. I remember when I left Christianity , and in my favorite chatroom, I could say that I was no longer a sinner. Because since I left Christianity the bible no longer was my rulebook and thus I couldn't sin.
So we left Christianity and found our paths in paganism. We were so happy not to have all that dogma and judgments hanging over our heads. We grew as individuals , building our beliefs with freedom and pride. Our only guides was our mind, our heart, and what we found in historical accounts.
Every time someone tried to build a structure to unite pagans together, the rebellion would start. How dare that person try to tell me how to follow. Or That person doesn't know what I believe, I will not let him/her represent me. We were stubborn to the core about being free to be who we wanted to be. And while it was a great thing it did have it's drawbacks. I would love to see a more united pagan community, so that we could be taken more serious by the Abrahamic groups.
But that has changed now, Wicca has one unwritten law that must be honored. If you are a wiccan you must be supportive of anything that another wiccan says, even if they are factually wrong. You are required to sit in silence if you can not say anything supportive of another person's statement. If you state anything that is not supportive you are called negative and considered a sinner to Wicca.
How can I say this? well you can thank Facebook for this situation. I am a vocal person by nature. I will tell others how I feel and I will correct fallacies when I see them. I am against people making false claims with paganism. Because I don't want those new to paganism to get the wrong impression of paganism. I have been banned from a few groups on Facebook the last couple years. This last week I was banned from two. Why ? Because I was being negative. I wasn't being hostile and insulting other members with foul names, I gave unsupportive statements and stood by them. I was called negative and exiled from the group. I committed the unwritten sin and was exiled.
In this one group I was seeing some rather irrating spell request posts. Besides the normal love spell requests, there was a spell request to change eye color, and a second to stay out of jail. So I posted how this is silly. If you break the law, you should face the consquences. To change eye color use the tinted contacts or deal with it. I told people that it was not only the people making the spell requests but the people that supported that type of behavior. I thought that more of the members need to read a book about magic.
But it even gets worse, then a lady posts a spell request for a "rare powerful fertility" spell. She just had a miscarriage and wanted a spell so that she can have a baby soon. I told her that she should get checked out with a doctor first, meditate on what issues that could be affecting her. In other words, I didn't go 100% supportive in the way she wanted. I was targeted by comments about my not-so-nice comment , but I stood my ground. ( I sinned). people were getting hostile toward me because I explained why I did what I did. I told the members of the group that I would have given the same exact advice to a family member as I did with her. I was told that I didn't know her ordeal. Well the lady didn't post very much information to know more. Comes to find out, the lady with this spell request already had many kids from 19 to 2 years old. She didn't need a fertility spell.
Then I commited an even bigger sin, I countered the comments from everyone else. I told them that I have been in relationships that had miscarriages and so that I knew the plain that eats away at a person when you lose a child. I told them about my brother almost dying, so I gave this lady solid advice based on the experiences I have went through. I never called anyone a name or used profanity. I seen that there was a comment after my post, so I checked on it. It said that I was "being negative." . I tried to write a response, but I was banned from the group before I could post it.
In the other group there was a guy that was posting misinformation, He was saying that he was a wiccan priest of a 4,000 year old witchcraft. I tried to explain to him that was impossible. Wicca only being around 60 years can't have a witchcraft that is older that itself. He could have said that he was a witch of a 4,000 year old path. Because Wicca is a collection of different traditions assembled into one new tradition. It could have parts of the 4,000 year old tradition, but other things have been added or replaced parts of it. I was using facts. Well I was told that I was attacking his beliefs. He then also told me that Wiccans do not argue. That all wiccans listen and learn. I tried to explain that we as humans are going to disagree. But he stood his ground and said that Wiccans don't argue. moments later I was banned from that group.
So there is this unwritten rule in Wicca and is overly enforced in so many Wicca groups. You can't disagree with someone or you will be removed. You will be called negative and banned. Being different is a sin. So these wiccan group leaders are enforcing this unwritten rule. As soon as someone else calls you negative , a sinner, you can be removed from a group. This is like the Christian church, you have to follow a certain line of conduct or you will be considered a sinner and unwanted element of the community.
So all these love and light eclectic wiccans that shun anything dark are able to control and manipulate the community. So we have reached the area I have feared. Pagans that have no balance or guidance are calling anyone that bothers them a bully and getting them removed. This goes against nature's law of survival. In the first group I was posting my YouTube videos trying to help the new pagans. I was answering questions trying to be helpful. But because of one thread that I was very passionate about didn't sit well with a select few, I was removed.
I can't allow all these new pagans be blinded by such sugar coated pagan concepts. I watched a pagan YouTube video tonight that told others that if you want to be an Eclectic pagan find the parts that you like most from other beliefs and add them to your path. Cherry picking paganism, that misses any balancing and furthers the light and love wiccan's course of self destruction.
But I can't teach those that don't want to learn about the hardships and darkness that balances out paganism. They will continue to think as the 'hag' aspect of the goddess to be of death and evil. They will treat the god like pokemon, only using them when the need arises. They will continue to call those that don't fit their happy world negative and exile them.
Wicca is becoming just like the Christian church is now. I have told you about the judgments toward others that don't agree with them. I see many of them using the rede a form of Dogma. Wicca has become goddess oriented and treats male aspects as supporting cast, the polar opposite of the Christian church, but still supporting one gender over the other blindly.
Has wicca changed so much from Gardner's vision, that it is no longer wicca, but something else?
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