Don't Get Taken In By This Book Title
Submitted by Grandmother Spider on Sun, 07/02/2006 - 9:24am.
Note of the Day reads "Wicca's Charm" so you don't have to:
I found the book, Wicca’s Charm, written by Catherine Sanders and subtitled “Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality,” in the Pagan/Wiccan section of the bookstore — which is most certainly where it does not belong, as it’s not truly about Wicca or Paganism. It’s about the reasons why some Wiccans had become disillusioned with Christianity, and a primer on how Christians can understand and convert Pagans to Christianity. ...
A sad and startling aspect of the disrespect shown to Pagans in this book is that our beliefs are highly misrepresented. In the first chapter, the author states that the following four tenets are the most common Wiccan beliefs:
1. “Wiccans hold the monistic and pantheistic beliefs that all living things are of equal value… humans have the same value as flowers, trees, or grass.”
2. “Wiccans believe they possess divine power within themselves and that they are gods or goddesses.”
3. “Personal power is unlimited — Wiccans believe that their power is not limited by a deity.”
4. “Consciousness can and should be altered through the practice of rite and ritual.”
With the exception of the fourth “tenet” on that list, this is totally inaccurate. Wiccans do not believe that human life is equal to plant life, and the vast majority of Pagans do not believe humans are equal to animals. Wiccans do not believe they are gods or goddesses, except in the figurative sense of honoring the divine spark within all people. The issue of personal power (which is left conveniently undefined in this book) being unlimited or not is simply not a Wiccan tenet or teaching. As for altering one’s consciousness, worship in Christian churches does the same thing, through prayer, hymns, and focusing one’s attention on sermons & their meanings. Altered consciousness may possibly be the only constant found in all religious practices!
Avoid. And if you find this book misfiled in the Pagan section at your bookstore, tell the store staff to move it. Or, just move it yourself. Fiction seems a good spot.
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