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Some people thought Harry Potter encouraged wicca, and that Dungeons & Dragons were the gateway into diabolism.

Many religions seem to incorporate a great deal of questioning and reflection, like Wicca and Buddhism.

Actually reading the bible is a big part of why I switched from Catholic to Wicca as a teen before deciding it was probably all ahistorical anyway.

I was born and raised Catholic, then I found Wicca and realised that not all the gods and religions work like Christianity.

Particularly England with the Wicca religions.

As someone who left Catholicism for Wicca and then eventually gave up on religion in general, I think it's valid to point out that these flaws are not unique to Catholicism.

Here in the US, and western world at large, we’re even seeing a rise in astrology, paganism, and Wicca corresponding with the decline of the Abrahamic religions.

But on the flip side, I loosely speaking agree with his four p’s but there’s an implication made that Buddhism and Wicca don’t fall under the definition of prayer, but orthodox Christianity does?

I'm reminded of the late 90s, when headlines proclaimed Wicca was the fastest growing religion, and my dad pointed out to me that going from 1 to 2 is a 100% growth rate.

In my 30s, I started to drift between Zen Buddhism, Druidry, wicca, paganism, looked into Daoism, and on and on it went.

Many Christian preachers go on about the evils of paganism, but outlawing speech against Wicca or Hinduism or whatever is unlikely to happen as would a law forcing believers in those religions to convert to an acceptable non-Pagan religion.

(Not that Wicca gave me direct answers to prayers, just that it never claimed it would, either — Doreen Valiente and Janet & Stewart Farrar were both very clear about having made up the rituals themselves).

Let's see, there's forums related to wicca, libertarians (the nutty kind), religion/spirituality, failed startups, "magick", seduction, conspiracy freaks...

I actually read the entire New Testament while at school, took it at face value, thought "this doesn't work, does it?" and went to Wicca for a bit before deciding that wasn't for me either.

But there's also plenty of people who act like they think "Democrat" is a synonym for "Communist", or that "Wicca" and "atheism" are both synonyms for "devil worship".

The same is true for most modern Pagan denominations including Druidism and Wicca.

Things like astrology, witchcraft-but-not-actually-Wicca, and other similar traditions have become extremely popular, especially among younger people.

I started dating a woman and after a few dates she told me she was a member of a Wicca.