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[The Mortal Instruments]

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Doesn't 'traditional' wicca date back to like the late fifties.

I imagine half the people here have parents older than that.

Get a real religion pls.

OH PLEASE.

Call me back when you're worshipping Taimat and Abzu.

I've always preferred Inanna.

*gets popcorn*

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But you are literally the fifties version of that phenomenon.

But literally no one takes Wiccans seriously anyway, so why do you care?

just lol @ you and all of your fail

What the hell is a "real religion?"

Well, what's the difference between a religion and a cult?

When I've studied religion in school, I've learned about Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. I never learned about Wiccan, Satanism, and Scientology.

At the end of the day, some belief systems are considered more legitimate than others.

That's true, but it doesn't really answer the question. Unless your answer is "a real religion is what other people consider a real religion."

Culturally valid, but doesn't make the yelling at Stella come off very well.

C'mon, you have to realize by this point you sound kind of ridiculous. Honestly, if you were part of a major religion, you would sound even sillier. I honestly thought you were trolling when you said, "got any plans for winter solstice this year?" It would be the equivalent of a Christian saying, "You can't really be a Christian unless you've read the Bible front to back and go to church every Sunday." The fact of the matter is most Christians nowadays can not say they've done these things.

Also, people of the same religion can often have very different beliefs and practices. There are different branches of Islam and different denominations of Christianity, for example. I don't understand why you think there's ~one right~ way for your religion.

But if you want to whine about kids on tumblr being interested in your 1950s-created cult and insult me for liking shitty anime, you go right on ahead.

Yeah, I don't think there's any point arguing with you because we clearly have very different opinions: you have a problem with very casual practitioners of a religion, whereas I do not.

As for whether or not something is a cult is pretty much a matter of opinion. If you look up cult in the dictionary, Wiccan fits the definition pretty well.

If you're going to start dividing people's beliefs into "legitimate religions" and "not-legitimate religions," you had damn well better be able to produce a god. Otherwise, your thousands-of-years-old religions are no more legitimate than stella's sixty-year-old religion.

I really don't care whether or not a god exists.

I was just pointing out that the world regards some religions as more "legitimate" than others. The major world religions didn't start out as "legitimate." For the most part, people considered them weird and heretical. In other words, they all had to earn their cred.

The fact of the matter is that most people in the world don't really consider Wicca to be a "legit" religion. I just found it interesting that she's whining about people becoming interested in her small and not very well-regarded religion.

Neither age nor popularity is a meaningful determiner of whether a religion is "cockamamie bullshit" or "a legitimate and respectable belief system." Those are, in fact, terrible measures of whether one should pay attention or give credence to a given idea.

Jesus, I'm all for dogpiling on Stella's bullshit, but Wicca IS a real religion. New does not mean invalid. And yes, there is a difference between religion and cult - cults are inherently dangerous, and there's nothing wrong about Wicca.

My dictionary literally defines Wicca as a religious cult. Maybe you should be taking this up with Oxford, not me.

That's cute. But it's not a cult, at least not in the sociology defined definition of cult, which is made up of:

radical beliefs that are extreme and exclusive
following one person who takes advantage of these people
these people being hyper controlled in their normal lives
ultimately psychologically (or physically) dangerous

Wicca is even legally defined as a religion in the US. Some old dictionaries may not have gotten that memo yet, but it is a religion. And frankly, fuck you for trivializing the religion of probably a million people.

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