[Opinion] What's your opinion on Wicca?

[MorganBlack]

it just seems like the romantic version of witchcraft

It was, but also was a originally a understandable response to the Dis-Enchantment the West resulting from scientific materialism.

Prof Ronald Hutton is the guy who nuked Wicca back in 1999. And feels bad about it. Links to his talks here: Wicca is bs?

Wiccan and modern paganism, it's ragtag orphan children, eventually jumped the shark - went rabid, starting attacking other peoples' religions, while make up total bullshit.

For a case in point on fakelore and what I'm starting to think of as "bad syncratism" - see Paul Kingsnorth, who was Wiccan, before converting to Greek Orthodox.

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Sometimes I can imagine an alternate timeline where Wicca fulfilled its real potential, before it got derailed by identity politics, and became a hate cult. A timeline where it became about the total and complete reverence for all expressions of life and the sacralization of everything, instead of what it became - a subculture for maladapted, cramped weirdos to claim specialness over everybody, who try to own all magic (becasue 'they' came first, in their own minds). It just makes me sad.

 

[Asteriskos]

I feel like some Wiccan practice could labelled as appropriation.

I don't feel bad about "appropriating" anything into my practice at all, I've done a lot of it over time. The aboriginal and indigenous folks that we appropriate from though have voiced their thoughts on it. I think as long as you don't claim to follow their "tradition" completely and call it your own, you're not actually doing any one harm. Wicca though is such a "hodgepodge" it's difficult at best to see where "Ye Olde Craeft" went!

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Every piece "appropriated" needs to fit well, or be capable of adapting / modifying or it obviously must be rejected!