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Quote by: freedom13  Well, both Christianity and Wicca are based on Egyptian and Greek Mythology.
Sophia Goddess
Isis before Sophia |
Many of our new ager concepts about "the Goddess within" have used as role models different goddesses of mythology, such as Diana (goddess of the hunt). And all those things have drifted into and influenced modern day wiccan groups, books, or organizations. Along with aspects of the women's lib movement. The Greek Goddesses were created by a very intelligent culture with a poetic flair, that artistic culture was big into philosophy and wisdom. The modern wiccan community has adopted ideas from eastern religions as well, and has sort of united a lot of things under their roof. And although they dislike the Christians who conducted witch hunts, and who did not give women much respect, they none the less do not think that Jesus had anything to do with the over-all negatives found in the Christian religion. Jesus often spoke in terms that pagans can understand, using nature to explain the nature of "the Father", and he often stood up for women's rights.
Now the Greeks were a rather advanced culture and the roots of paganism are much older then that, and reach back into some of the most primitive ages of humanity. Further back then the Jewish writings that orginated in Sumer.
The pagans are people who lived close to nature, while the other religions you mentoned were mostly city folks. The "hicks from the sticks" verses the "city slickers". That is how the two groups were seperated. RE: The civilized verses the trible savages (aka natives).