New user. Thanks for letting me into your group.

[Anymouse]

I'm so old I may have invented it.

You're not THAT old Min.


The religion known as 'Wicca' was largely invented in the 1950's by an eccentric British civil servant called Gerald Gardner.

He cherry picked bits from the East, the Druids and some pre-Christian fertility cults, taking care to leave out the good bits such as human sacrifice and sex.
If he was still alive Gerald would now be 127.

Hey, I'm the Wiccan, not Min.

Garner codified several things. The practices were around longer than Gardner (Waite, Fortune, et alia). Many Wiccans today pay Gardner no mind at all.

And the human sacrifice part was applied to any cult the Christians didn't like (Mayans, Druids, Jews, Muslims, Protestants against Catholics, Catholics against Protestants, &c.) When you apply it to everyone, the claim loses somewhat in credibility. Especially when there is scant evidence besides the movie "Wicker Man."

And sex is a good bit. What's wrong with sex? You wouldn't be here without sex. Why is it that sex is always painted as a bad thing by Christianity if God created it? Oh yeah, that part in Isaiah that says that God creates evil (no Satan required). And God created sex, so it must be evil, because so many Christians think sex is not good. Geez, take one of the funnest and easiest acts God made for his creation, and call it evil.

Gardner and his friends most certainly did "not" leave out the sex. They were very big on sex. Wiccans love sex. Many incorporate it into ritual, as did Gardner and Alexander: sex is life-affirming (since you can't have life without sex).

I might be forced to post my Discordian wedding vows to the site. Fnord. (Hey wow, Fnord is in the site's spell check routine. I'm impressed.) Leave out the sex. Like Christians leaving out the Bible. Sex is crucial to Wicca.