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Wicca has connections to ancient panthiestic and pagan religions. Since it is "a" religion, it is a religion as much as any other religion is -- I take it that is your point?
A broad range of religious expressions must be tolerated by the State, in the interest of domestic tranquility and freedom of conscience. That does not mean that they are all intellectually equivalent in their apprehension of truth, or equally benefically to society.
Or: Maybe your point is, that in your eyes, Catholicism is as silly as wicca? The problem is, progress (to which most materialists adhere as a worldview if not a dogma) is an outgrowth of the Judeo/Christian apprehension of history: time being linear from beginning to end; history having purpose; the world having been created in a rational manner such that it can be understood. (Einstein: "the most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible". Well, at least HE understood the theory of relativity!!)
The history and philosophy of science are fascinating. As was posted above, the symbol chosen by the Nazis (the swastika) was an ancient symbol of many old religions, which believed in eternal recurrance, rather than the linear view of history adopted in Western thought.
So it has mattered and does matter what a people believes . . . to their future on this earth as well as the next. BTW, I think we are all here trying to understand and reach truth, not to trying to win debating points . . .