[TruthConquers]

As far as the average person is concerned, modern wiccan is ancient paganism. And ancient pagans did sacrifice children to idols. See Molech in the Bible.

But if what you say is true that wiccan is nothing more than a very loosely defined set of beliefs of various small independent groups with no central governing authority, or agreed upon set of beliefs, then your opinion on what wiccans believe and what they don’t believe, has no validity. Anyone can say anything about wiccans because there is no one standard. Therefore their beliefs can’t be misrepresented because there is on one definition. It is you who have no creditability on this site.

Saying a group has standards when they don’t have standards is silly.

[Lusis]

1. The average person doesn't study religion. Molech may have sacrificed but that doesn't mean it's common practice for Wiccans or modern pagans for that matter.

2. Modern Wicca is nothing more than "nature worship in a can." They use names and symbology of ancient pagans, but that's as far as it goes. There is alot of eastern philosophy such as Taoism and Bhuddism added in. The major characteristic of Wicca is that it is more structured than most neo-paganism is, but that's not saying much since most of the latter is user-defined.

3. You can't say that anything can be said about Wicca, since there is still core tenets in the religion, and none of them have to so with any sort of sacrifice or child molestation (Note there is no central authority in the eastern faiths, but as with Wicca, there is still core beliefs).