I am conflicted over these questions every time I have to make a decision about what I allow my children to do. One of my jobs as parent is to turn them into mature adults and you don’t get there without some mistakes. We just hit the driver’s learner permit stage and is it scarry!! When does reasonable restraint become overprotectiveness - that’s a hard one to answer for my own children and even tougher on a Church level.
We are all conflicted to some extent. Some things, though, are incapable of further determination. Witchcraft, necromancy, divination, false spirituality, magic (not sleight of hand, but the real thing) are strictly verboten, and with good reason. Nothing good can come out of familiarity with such things, and the temptation to seek to do good with the wrong tools can overwhelm.
Ah, the joys of parenting. My older daughter is almost five and the younger is due to be born in exactly seven days… I don’t look forward to them driving under the influence of raging hormones on top of their inexperience. It’s too bad that perfect hindsight is not a gift bestowed on parents.
Don’t blink - it’ll be here before you know it. I swear my daughter was starting kindergarten a month ago!!!
You have to teach them at a young age, and be firm. Being wishy-washy make them think they have a chance, and that’s unfair to them.
I’ve always said that when we give kids a message with a “but” they hear neither the first part nor second.And parents who supply their kids with contraceptives? What message does that send? For 100% effective birth control, teach your children good morals. If that fails, then give your daughter an aspirin and tell her to hold it between her knees…
And you’re not Catholic.
What?! Certainly not! I believe in the absolute and unbreakable distinction between humanity and Deity! Humans are not Gods, nor can they ever become ones.
You forgot the atheists, who don’t believe in anything supernatural. And I don’t believe I’m supernatural.
Thanks.
it is a teenage girl fad…some people just experience it when they are in their 20s and 30s…I guess everyone matures at their own rate.
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yes, it’s a fad primarily for girls, but what you ask about the “men” wiccans…the male witches…well, Governor Schwartzenagger of California could properly identify them for you…
wicca is a spirituality based religion. we do not worship anything but rather use magick and ritual to gain better relationships with the goddess and god. (the feminine and masculine energies of the earth)we use meditation and spellwork as our prayers to mother earth and father sky. when you say you here the word wicca and think of witches you are wrong…and right but we are not the long nosed, green faced, flying in on broomstick, casting evil spells, and cackling at the top of our lungs witches. we are the nature loving, people loving people who seek to gain a better relationship with the earth and ourselves. we use spells and ritual to give thanks and to ask for help in day to day life. we use them to change and dare i say manipulate (in a good way) our lives and others lives, in our/their favour. (never before asking some people are weirded out if you want to do a healing spell on them and thats ok) we do not belive there is one being controlling our lives like a god…or satan. we do not practice evil magick we believe in the rule of three. one phrase in our wiccan rede is “an harm ye none, do as ye will.” much like “do unto other as you would have done unto you” (i was raised catholic) if you have any other questions please feel free to email me! - victoria
Hate to tell you this, but Wicca is evil and is anti-Chistian in the extreme. It promotes belief in multiple “gods and goddesses,” at best it is pantheistic, it promotes homosexuality and bisexuality, promotes ritualist sex, and promotes the use of the occult, and so forth. I would be hard-pressed to find a more anti-Catholic set of practices.
i post again! although you are insisting we need conversion and the “truth” you are the most respectful catholic i have heard (or read) speak…(or type)…anyway. you are so very right on one thing! catholics need not fear we are anti-christian i am very pro faith…of any sort as long as you are not hurting anyone…(satanism and such) but i believe rather than seeing us as charity cases that need to be shown the one true faith…we should just be respected as taking a different approach to faith and religion and left at that. thank you.
It is not disagreement with any individual that makes someone wrong, it is in contradicting the truth.
I was a practicing Wiccan for 8 years, am I qualified?
Not sure what a barry is. You are correct, everyone has a right to their opinion however you do not have a right to your own version of the truth.
This view has been largely discredited in the last few years. I sympathize I used to think this too - it’s not true. The truth is we have absolutely no idea of the practices of the pre-Christian pagans. Most were illiterate, so there are no records and their practices have been dead for 1500 years.
Absolutely, the 8 sabbats in the wheel of the year roughly correspond with the Christian calendar but it is incorrect, as some pagans assert, that the sabbats came first.
kjvail said:
Jesus was most probably born in September; the Early Church Fathers took the date of the Roman Saturnalia festival, the 25th of December (then Winter Solstice), as his birthday, in order to make it easier for pagans to convert to Christianity.