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Do you consider being a Pagan or wiccan a religion?

MattTeter 3 Jan 5
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Belief in a higher power? Accepted tax deduction? Then yes.

Wait a minute, idea forming, maybe athiests should accept the xtion premise of being a religion and get tax exempt status - all home based thus no taxes on property as long as we have an occasional meeting to talk.

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I am A-theist and do not concern myself what others believe as long as they do not try to force it me or others.

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But I like to study different religions, the symbols tells a lot about the society that built them.

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Paganism is a religion as in pagans believe in the tangible evidence of nature. They believe in worshiping nature, the turning of the globe and the seasons. Wiccans are silly.

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No, If i will believe in fairy tails, let me at least believe in one that will give me social prestige XD

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Indeed

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Yup, it's a religion.

Orbit Level 7 Jan 5, 2019
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Yes.

BD66 Level 8 Jan 5, 2019
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If you're worshiping something then yeah that makes it a religion.

pa·gan
/ˈpāɡən/
noun

  1. a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
    synonyms: heathen, infidel, idolater, idolatress; archaicpaynim
    "pagans worshiped the sun"

Wicca (English: /ˈwɪkə/), also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement. ... Wicca draws upon a diverse set of ancient pagan and 20th-century hermetic motifs for its theological structure and ritual practices.

To me Pagan just means not catholic, and doesn't conform to their beliefs. Just as wiccans don't believe in satan. I think it is just more about rebellion against the xtians. That's just my opinion tho.

Religion is hard to pin down.

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English wors☕hipe, worthssipe, Old English worthscipe, variant of weorthscipe; see worth1, -ship; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

Worship (worthship) has its roots in simply recognizing the worth of something and valuing it accordingly.

  1. to feel an adoring reverence or regard for (any person or thing).

So either...
A. Worshipping something doesn't necessarily qualify as religious behavior.
or
B. Every time we value something highly it could be considered an act of religious devotion.

[dictionary.com]

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They are religions. As with all other religions, they are nonsense.
Just ancient ways of explaining things they didn't yet understand.

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It is a quite ancient belief system, based on reverence for nature & its' bounty. And no proselytizing!

The appeal to the atheopaganism extent is the love of nature and the practices (former Wiccan) without the use of deities or gods/goddesses. My only problem with Wicca was the praise of a 'higher power'. Otherwise, the rituals are fascinating - to an extent.

You don't know some of the pagans I know. They can be just as bad as Christians.

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Atheopaganism is a thing. I had looked into it a long time ago. There's no Wikipedia page for it, but the basics are practicing the rituals without referring to any specific deity.

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it isn't up to me to consider those things religion. it is up to their practitioners, who, it is my understanding, do consider them so.

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