Know Thine Enemy


A friend of mine loves listening to some conservative talk show host on the radio; she swears by this guy and would happily pass on any information gleaned from this maven of knowledge without first checking the material. This often put her in the predicament being wrong, and sincere in her incompetence. I used to listen to these talk shows myself once upon a time, but after listening for at least 6mo I realized they do what I do but get paid top dollar for their effort. These supposed authority spew garbage, some of which seem to be thought up on the spot, and being radio their audience are probably stuck in traffic with no means of checking the information. Radio stations could save themselves a pretty penny by just getting me drunk and asking me what I thought about some controversial subject, like what’s up with Black Water, and record me as I spew my drunken tripe.
Last night at small group this freind spoke of this talk show host report on some supposed Wiccan coven that performed baby sacrifices on their holy days of the years. I really tried to think if this could be possible and after I got home I picked up my favorite little Handbook by Steve Russo. I really don’t know where this talk show host got his info but whoever this group is they cannot be Wiccan. Baby sacrifice runs counter to the Wiccan philosophy of doing know harm.
As a Christian I stand against the Wiccan belief to be sure, but I don’t think any enemy of my enemy is my friend. There are people I have seen who stand against abortion, and homosexuality, just as I do but we are hardly freind. Some of these people claim to be Christians. But, from what I can see the Christ they follow is not my Christ. My Christ is a God of love, he hated sins but loved the sinner. He never condone killing. It was never left to us to judge, just to rebuke sin in hopes that the person may repent. We are to leave the time of judgment in Gods hands, He has appointed the day and the hour. He didn’t ask for any help from us to make the meeting of God and Sinner Possible.
I love the people of Wicca but I hate the faith. It saddens me that people have fallen to such a lie as this, giving glory unto them selves by some power of demonic origin. I am sadden that many of these people probably fell to this religion not out of dissatisfaction of God but because of those who had been trusted to be stewards of his name on earth. These Shepherds either spouted the word of God but did not live God’s word. These people neither studied the word nor taught it to their children. These people have caused their sons and daughters to forsake God, and drove them from him.
I think the enemy should be represented properly, neither adding to his power nor taking away from his powers. We must not teach our children to fear the enemy for the wrong reason; this may actual drive them to the enemy. When our children discover our ignorance they will wonder how ignorant are we? They will seek out those who are more versed in the faith than we. These people will of course be those that follow the faith. These sages will fill their heads with positive aspects of what they believe and leave out the negative aspects of their faith.
In a nut shell the Wicca comes from the Anglo-Saxon word wicce, which means to bend or shape nature to ones service. Each person practices this differently because Wicca is a personal religion. There is only rule that is steadfast,” to do no harm.” “To do no harm” is a long way from “love thy enemy” of course, but to a world where love has less to do with treating the homeless as we would want others to treat us if we were homeless, and more to do with sex ‘to do no harm’ actually sounds close to the Golden Rule.
Wicca is all about Self empowerment, they do not pray for what troubles them, they make it happen. No reason to wait on God to make up his mind as to how important it is for him if I have the power within myself. If witches have a friend or a friend of a friend who is sick they cast a spell. Difference between prayer and spell casting is prayer ultimately bowing to Gods will. Prayer is all about faith, not faith that God will give you your hearts desire but if he doesn’t it is for your benefit, and his glory. I once was told by another friend that some rock star idol of his said that if we made a journal of all our prayer as they came true the best we could hope for was 50:50. Two things came to mind, first was God isn’t Satan Claus and if this rock star’s prayer ratio was 50% he sure had a heart for God, which was amazing for someone who despised God.