Is Wicca A Religion?

Published: Monday, February 26, 2001

"A Word In Edgewise" caught my attention last Monday (A-J, 1-29) when the topic was religious diversity. Even more interesting than the text, which was very informative, was the graphic used as an illustration.

Nine religious symbols were featured in the artwork. I can identify seven, possibly eight of the nine. There was the Yin-Yang of Taoism, what may be an artistic representation of a lotus flower for Buddhism, a totem for Native American religion, a Crucifix for Catholicism and Christianity, a Pentagram for Wicca, a symbol of the OM for Hinduism, a symbol I cannot place, a crescent and a star for Islam and a cross for Christianity.

Wait a minute, that was a pentagram? It was a symbol for what? Wicca is a religion? That's right, Wicca is a religion and its symbol is the pentagram.

I am not sure how that particular graphic was chosen. I wonder if someone forgot to count the points on the star and thought the pentagram was the Star of David. Regardless of the process, it was chosen and ultimately printed.

I do know that followers of the "old religion" all over Lubbock were quietly pleased upon seeing it.



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