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Originally Posted by pan6467
I would not call Wiccan a fringe religion. In their eyes it is no more different than Christianity and Judaism or Maoist, Buddhist and Hindu.
I see nothing wrong with a religion that teaches "Do as you will but harm none" or that we must get closer to Earth and thank the mother for her generosity that gives us life.
The problem lies with attitudes that "fringe religions" are to be discounted. I have many many friends that are Wiccan and NOT 1 changes their beliefs nor challenges other religions and belief systems. So what gives Christianity and Christians the right to challenge or call "fringe religion" or brush it off as a cultistic element that doesn't deserve recognition?
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Just going by world wide numbers of followers, there's no disrespect to the religion itself. It's just the facts of distribution.
They (the christians and christianity) have the right, it's been given to them by God according to the constitution as do the Muslims, the Jews, etc. You and I don't have to believe it, but that's the same right we were given to challenge or call it as such.
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