Comments on: Female Druids http://themagicalbuffet.com/blog1/2008/02/29/female-druids/ Where spirituality, politics, and pop culture collide! Thu, 16 May 2013 23:54:22 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dawn http://themagicalbuffet.com/blog1/2008/02/29/female-druids/comment-page-1/#comment-68019 Dawn Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:08:48 +0000 http://themagicalbuffet.com/blogx/?p=283#comment-68019 o, and "Another problem with modern Wicca for some is the so-called “Wiccan rede” (“An it harm none do what you will”). This tenet has been used as an excuse to behave in self-centered ways that no tribal society would tolerate." any person can use any religion, without exception, to justify their own behaviours. a true understanding of the wiccan rede is to understand that purely selfish behaviours are in fact harmful to the self and others - - there is a reason that it hasn't been changed to "do what you want as long as it doesn't harm anyone" -- - the emphasis is on *do no harm* it isn't that i feel defensive on these points; it's just that they are being represented completely incorrectly. o, and “Another problem with modern Wicca for some is the so-called “Wiccan rede” (“An it harm none do what you will”). This tenet has been used as an excuse to behave in self-centered ways that no tribal society would tolerate.”

any person can use any religion, without exception, to justify their own behaviours. a true understanding of the wiccan rede is to understand that purely selfish behaviours are in fact harmful to the self and others – - there is a reason that it hasn’t been changed to “do what you want as long as it doesn’t harm anyone” — – the emphasis is on *do no harm*

it isn’t that i feel defensive on these points; it’s just that they are being represented completely incorrectly.

]]> By: Dawn http://themagicalbuffet.com/blog1/2008/02/29/female-druids/comment-page-1/#comment-68018 Dawn Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:04:50 +0000 http://themagicalbuffet.com/blogx/?p=283#comment-68018 i enjoyed reading this article and found a lot to be garnered from it. however, the idea that wicca and/or witchcraft believes that all goddesses are one goddess etc. is categorically untrue. there are modern witches that embrace that philosophy but not all do. and amongst those that do - even if all goddesses are one goddess - each representation is a different aspect of the goddess/god and it always matters which you call upon in ritual. i don't know a single witch that would say otherwise. i enjoyed reading this article and found a lot to be garnered from it. however, the idea that wicca and/or witchcraft believes that all goddesses are one goddess etc. is categorically untrue. there are modern witches that embrace that philosophy but not all do. and amongst those that do – even if all goddesses are one goddess – each representation is a different aspect of the goddess/god and it always matters which you call upon in ritual. i don’t know a single witch that would say otherwise.

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