Can Catholics share some of the beliefs of Wiccans

[brian_custer]

blockbuster posts

 

[brian_custer]

chesteron & c s lewis both agree: “pride” is the worst sin

 

[ShowersofRoses]

Thank you for writing all that out, very informative. Good summary of why we shouldn’t be trying to incorporate Wiccan beliefs into our faith.

 

[brian_custer]

there is the Trnity

but there is only One God; so what are the Abrahmaic religions arguing about?

 

[po18guy]

Long story short, i’m a convert to Catholicism therefore i’m very much into theology. I’ve been learning more about Wicca and Wiccan beliefs (which is confusing at times due to the diversity) but some of them peak my interest, because they seem totally acceptable

Unless you are a theology/philosophy student, and can study this from a dispassionate viewpoint, it can be dangerous spiritual territory. Someone or something is attempting to show you an alternative “way”

That cannot be good.

Just saying.

 

[Vico]

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We are obligated to protect our faith, to not loose it, so to avoid contrary ideas. Pontifical Council:

Wicca: an old English term for witches that has been given to a neo-pagan revival of some elements of ritual magic. It was invented in England in 1939 by Gerald Gardner, who based it on some scholarly texts, according to which medieval European witchcraft was an ancient nature religion persecuted by Christians. Called “the Craft”, it grew rapidly in the 1960s in the United States, where it encountered “women’s spirituality”.

A prominent component of Mrs. Blavatsky’s writings was the emancipation of women, which involved an attack on the “male” God of Judaism, of Christianity and of Islam. She urged people to return to the mother-goddess of Hinduism and to the practice of feminine virtues. This continued under the guidance of Annie Besant, who was in the vanguard of the feminist movement. Wicca and “women’s spirituality” carry on this struggle against “patriarchal” Christianity today.

There are clear links between Eastern spirituality and psychotherapy, while Jungian psychology and the Human Potential Movement have been very influential on Shamanism and “reconstructed” forms of Paganism like Druidry and Wicca. In a general sense, “personal growth” can be understood as the shape “religious salvation” takes in the New Age movement: it is affirmed that deliverance from human suffering and weakness will be reached by developing our human potential, which results in our increasingly getting in touch with our inner divinity.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/p...s/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html

 

[Alex337]

We are obligated to protect our faith, to not loose it, so to avoid contrary ideas.

This made me think of the 40k quote; “A questioning mind betrays a treacherous soul.” or possibly “An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.”

 

[Vico]

A questioning mind betrays a treacherous soul

There are some interesting quotes in that source. Also contrary quotes to those just quoted.

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will get in among you, and will not spare the flock. And from among your own selves men will rise speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:29-30)

 

[Alex337]

I don’t quite follow what that was pertaining to?

 

[Vico]

I don’t quite follow what that was pertaining to?

An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded. – Warhammer Rulebook, 2nd ed. p. 47

Yet this next quote can be applied for or against orthodoxy.

A suspicious mind is a healthy mind. – Warhammer Rulebook, 4th ed. p. 47

 

[Alex337]

Alex337:

I don’t quite follow what that was pertaining to?

An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded. – Warhammer Rulebook, 2nd ed. p. 47

Yet this next quote can be applied for or against orthodoxy.

A suspicious mind is a healthy mind. – Warhammer Rulebook, 4th ed. p. 47

Mmm, I suppose you could apply it for or against. I think it’s just satire.

 

[Vico]

Wiccans believe in a doctrine, Harm ye none do what you will. Unfortunately, I dont think they have the same ideas of what harms others as the church, and that seems to be the problem with them.

Precisely, do non Christians seek freedom from our passions as do Christians?

Byzantine Catholic Troparion of the Resurrection, Tone 8

You descended from on high, O merciful One. You accept ed burial for three days to free us from our passions. O Lord, our Resurrection and our Life, glory to you.