Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-9293900-20131020063524/@comment-24246403-20131219092819

Arro Yunora, The church actually did declare thinking a sin for a while. Look through history, you'll find multiple centuries of it. Anything against what they said, "Heresy, stake, fire, damnation." They created a people who were afraid of thoughts not sanctioned by the church. Very few people remember the times before the Rennaisance. Before then, if the church hinted it was a sin, people freaked out over it. Free thinking and using your mind to its fullest extent was definately a sin. Again, see my comment above. Power issue.

Nitsualol24, you are both incorrect and extremely biased in your affirmation that witchcraft is wiccan. Wicca is recent. Wicca is a revival. Wicca is taking Paganus beliefs and codes and throwing them all into one big melting pot for each person to ladle out badly burned chunks. Also, combined with a very moldy breadish set of morals and ethics(Harm none, do what ye will, I'm lookin at you.) Witchcraft is far older, both in Craft and in Historical text. The Art or the Craft has existed before written human record, and will exist well beyond human extinction. witchcraft is merely a blanket term for using your own power to change your life and the lives of those around you. Notice how using that definition, Jesus was a witch? Slanderous terms are labeled by those in power. And before the Rennaisance, that was solely the church.