(^228) A Wiccan Bible
Section Introduction
This is the third of the three-fold path of Wicca.
One of the things I am blessed with is my Website. In the years that it has been
operating, it has become a living, growing thing with thousands of members who inter-
act and participate in open debates frequently. I say I am blessed with this because it
gives me an opportunity to bounce ideas off people long before a book goes to press. A
lot of my ideas promote a knee jerk reaction, so by finding out what peope object to
about an idea, I either find out I was having an off day or I find the many points of an
idea that I have not addressed. Now that we have polls running, there is no telling
where it will end.
One of those many ideas I posted was that maybe Wicca should adopt a standard
set of ethics. The idea met a great amount of argument. Dogma, I was told, is the first
step in totalitarianism and we know what happens when we go that route. My next
question was that if Wicca does not have a set of ethics or any dogma, how can it be a
religion if words have meaning? That is, if Wicca can be anything a person wants it to
be, how does calling it Wicca (or anything in particular) make any sense? Overwhelm-
ingly similar answers flooded in: Each Wiccan decides for his or her self what Wicca is,
and we do not need a standard of ethics or a dictate of dogma.
So who decides what is moral or ethical in Wicca? Again, you do. Again, Wicca
does not dictate what you are to think. Instead, Wicca presents a Path of initiation. As
you walk on that path, you encounter the many mysteries. As you address those myster-
ies, you determine what Wicca is and is not. These are the many things that make
Wicca what it is. For some reason, the folk drawn into these mysteries tend to come up
with the same general beliefs. In this case I do not think it is a stretch to say Wiccans
firmly stand against the molestation and rape of children. If in saying that, I have be-
come the latest Wiccan Dictator, so be it.
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