"DAVID J STEWART" <freedom@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Christians Don't Understand Wicca?

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by David J. Stewart
I have received several e-mails lately from pagans and Wiccans accusing
me of ignorance about Wicca.

Judging by your rant here and on your website, they'd be absolutely right.

Jani
<snipped hysterical babble>

"DAVID J STEWART" <freedom@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Christians Don't Understand Wicca?

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Wicca%20&%20Witchcraft/christians_don't_understand_wicca.htm

by David J. Stewart

Clearly you don't, but then christians don't seem to understand much.

DAVID J STEWART wrote:

Christians Don't Understand Wicca?

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Wicca%20&%20Witchcraft=

by David J. Stewart




I have received several e-mails lately from pagans and Wiccans accusi=

of ignorance about Wicca. They tell me to go to websites such as
www.witchvox.com to educate myself. Well, I have been to witchvox and I
have studies their beliefs. One of the biggest criticisms I receive fr=

the Wicca witches is that they don't believe in Satan and that I'm tota=

out of the ballpark to even associate them with Satan. The pagan witch=

teach that Christians created the devil, and even the term "pagan." Wi=

blame Christians for creating all the distortions about what Wicca is r=

all about. For a Biblical overview of what Wicca is truly about, please
read Wicca (neo-paganism). According to Wiccans, the devil is only a
boogeyman created by Christians to scare the world. Wicca teaches that
Lucifer is the true god, the god of light and goodness.

I have always wondered why Lucifer means lightbringer. Isn't bringing
light a good thing?

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/christ/xt-ibel2.htm

The word Lucifer is found in only one place in the Bible -- Isaiah
14:12 -- but only in the King James and related versions: "How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! . . ." The New
Revised Standard Version translates the same passage as "How you are
fallen from heaven, O Day Star, Son of Dawn!" In other translations we
find: "O shining star of the dawn!" (Moffatt) or "O morning-star, son
of the dawn!" (Hebrew Bible). The King James Version is based on the
Vulgate, the Latin translation of Jerome. Jerome translated the Hebrew
helel (bright or brilliant one) as "lucifer," which was a reasonable
Latin equivalent. And yet it is this lucifer, the bright one or
lightbearer, that came to be understood by so many as the name for
Satan, Lord of Darkness.


http://lds-mormon.com/lucifer.shtml

The irony for those who believe that "Lucifer" refers to Satan is that
the same title ('morning star' or 'light-bearer') is used to refer to
Jesus, in 2 Peter 1:19, where the Greek text has exactly the same term:
'phos-phoros' 'light-bearer.' This is also the term used for Jesus in
Revelation 22:16.

Early Christains even had a Saint by the name of Lucifer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucifer

Lucifer or Lucifer Calaritanus (d. 370 or 371) was a bishop of Cagliari
in Sardinia and Christian saint known for his passionate opposition to
Arianism.

Arianism was a Christological view held by followers of Arius, a
Christian priest who lived and taught in Alexandria, Egypt, in the
early 4th century. Arius taught that God the Father and the Son were
not co-eternal, seeing the pre-incarnate Jesus as a divine being but
nonetheless created by (and consequently inferior to) the Father at
some point, before which the Son did not exist.

At the Council of Milan in 354 Luficer defended Athanasius , another
strong opponent of Arianism, and he opposed the Arians so powerfully
that they had the Emperor Constantius II (an Arian sympathizer) confine
Lucifer for three days in the palace. While in confinement, Saint
Lucifer argued so strongly with the emperor that he was banished, first
to Palestine and then to Thebes, Egypt. While in exile, he wrote fiery
letters to the emperor that put him in danger of martyrdom.

After the death of Constantius and the accession of Julian the
Apostate, Lucifer was released in 362. However, he would not be
reconciled to former Arians. He consecrated bishop Paulinus, without
license, creating the schism of Meletius. He may have been
excommunicated, as is hinted in the writings of Saint Ambrose and Saint
Augustine and Saint Jerome, who refers to his followers as Luciferians,
a sect that survived in scattered remnants into the early 5th century.
Jerome, in his polemic Altercatio Luciferiani et orthodoxi
("Altercation of the Luciferian and the orthodox"), offers almost all
that is known of Lucifer or the sect.

Lucifer of Cagliari's chief writings, against Arianism and
reconciliation with heresy, include De non conveniendo ***** haereticis,
De regibus apostaticis, and De S. Athanasio.

His feast day in the Catholic Church is May 20. His name demonstrates
that "Lucifer" (meaning "light-bringer") was not yet merely a synonym
of "Satan" in the 4th century. However, hasty references by
enthusiastic 19th century biblical scholars assumed from the name that
the Luciferians were Satanists. Therefore, although his cultus has not
been suppressed nor his canonization reevaluated, he is not often
celebrated or spoken of in the calendar.

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:57:46 GMT, "DAVID J STEWART" <freedom@yahoo.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

Christians Don't Understand Wicca?