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deficiency. The end result of that process was the appearance of white folk, black folk,
and a variety of folk between black and white, all with the same mother.
In my view of Wicca, we state firmly that all humans are the children of the one
Mother Earth and Father Sky for two reasons. One’s mother, no matter what she might
tell you, is still one’s mother no matter who one chooses to have sex with. It is also now
more or less scientific fact that all humanity has a genetic link to one woman who lived
in Africa.
The great religions and sciences of the world have been wrong. You might recall
mention of Eden where for a time lived Adam and Eve in your Christian Studies class.
Maybe you were raised in Islam where you read about Adan where for a time lived
Adam and Haiwa. Well, each of these world religions was wrong and dangerously so.
Science seems to have come to replace religion. You might have learned about
Lucy and perhaps of the ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ (State v. John Scopes) in public school.
That information is wrong as well. In fact, although folk seem to think that John Scopes
won his case, he in fact lost. Later it was overturned, but never won. They just decided
the thing made a monkey out of the courts so they dropped it because there was little to
be gained by punishing Mr. Scopes.
That was then and this is now. Today, recognizing the fact that the religion and
even the science of past generations were wrong is critical. In the past, nuclear, biologi-
cal, chemical, and other weapons had not been invented. Folk could go to war over
which religion or science was right and which was wrong with little concern for devasta-
tion on a global scale. It was more or less globally safe to perpetuate the myth of the
current concept of evolution. That myth is that Lucy (ape-like ancestor) lived in Africa
and was the predecessor to the wandering Homo Erectus who moved into Europe and
Asia and then evolved into modern humanity.
The great religions and science of the world have been right. What’s that? Didn’t I
just say that both science and religion had been wrong? Why, yes I did, thank you for
noticing. Religions have been right in stating that humanity emerged from the garden
as just that, humanity, or modern man. Science is probably right in stating that human-
ity evolved, but it was wrong in the idea that we left Africa as anything other than
modern humans. Oh, maybe some distant cousins did leave Africa, but without excep-
tion those cousins died.
My view of Wicca (and I hope yours) is that Wicca is a living religion. It evolves
with the times, accepting new science and disregarding the mistakes we have made in
the past. So where we once felt there were ‘races’ of humanity, today Wicca teaches
that we are one race, one people —not because it is politically correct, but because our
very survival demands it. Now that we have the ability to destroy our world many times
over, we must grow in understanding such that we do manifest that potential eventual-
ity. In other words, we must evolve or we will become extinct.
In essence, Africa is the womb of the family that we call humanity. While one can
easily argue for evolution, does not a child evolve in the womb of his or her mother? Is
a sperm cell or an ovum a human being? Do we hold funerals every time a man mastur-
bates or a woman menstruates? Is the union of a sperm cell and an ovum a human
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