How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?

[Abracadabra]

What's published about Wicca and what is not aren't entirely different things. It is a sort of umbrella religion though, it means many things to many people so it does get dicey...you have to first figure out just what type of wiccan you're talking about before speaking to the specifics. Even then, there's a heavy dose of customization. Wicca doesn't drive me nuts, I've been on witchvox for years and years..lol. Some wiccans do though. I think wicca is quaint and pleasant, for the most part. Bullshit, but happy bullshit.

I agree about Wicca.

In fact, my personal version of "Wicca" is so highly personally customized that the question of whether or not the term can even still be applied to it is a very legitimate question indeed.

One thing I will agree with is that it is "happy" bull shit. Or at least my version it. I'm quite sure there are "Wiccan Cults" out there that may not be so nice though, but then again, if they are attempting to harm anyone they are in violation of the "Wiccan Rede".

In fact, to best understand my own personal views on Wicca, the first thing that needs to be understood is that I view "spirits" and the "God and Goddess" quite abstractly as "thought forms" and psychological archetypes. Certainly not as actual personified Zeus-like God and Goddess.

In other words, I realized that a lot of pantheists, naturalists, and even animists, or Taoists-minded people were embracing Wicca in very abstract ways. Recognizing that type of acceptance of views is what gave me the "green light" to embrace it myself and shape it into something that I too can embrace.

So my view of "Wicca" is a highly abstract view more along the lines of psychological archetypes than about actual 'personified' Gods and external spirits.

I actually have quite a bit to say about that in terms of Spirit being an "emergent property" of thoughts. If my spirit can emerge from my thoughts, then why can't other spirits emerge from my thoughts as well?

In fact, if a single brain gives rise to two emergent spirits simultaneously we simply label the person as being "mentally ill". In other words, we think of that as being a "defective brain".

But what the hell? If a brain can give rise to one spirit via an emergent property, then why not two? Or more? And if so, then which of those are the "real spirit"?

It becomes like, 'What's my Line?"

Will the "Real Spirit" please stand up? (ha ha)

If I can succeed in becoming schizophrenic, I will have achieved spiritual success in terms of invoking a spirit. (ha ha)

I confess that I haven't been able to achieve that quite yet, but I'm working hard at it.