I use to be christan, then I turned my back to it because everyone was so pushy on it, but once I turned to Magick I gotten so much more confedence and I could now control my own fate rather than leaving it to a God figure.
You can in fact combine Christianity and Wicca. What you end up with will not be Christianity, nor will it be Wicca, but there's not exactly a better term for it than Christian-Wicca.
A more accurate statement is that one can be a Christian-Wiccan hybrid, but one cannot be both a Christian and a Wiccan.
Of course you can combined 'Christianity' and 'Wicca', but it will no longer be Christianity/Wicca...and you cannot call yourself a 'Christian Wiccan', even if you can't think of a better term...because you would be lying. You CAN'T be both. Take whatever you like from both and make your own religion, but accept that you can't be a Christian Wiccan because it WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
They contradict each other in a way that can't be overlooked. If you fully believe one, you can't believe in the other.
It's insane to think that you can. Just be a Christian and practice witchcraft. That is totally doable.
I think it's an alright term. In the case of "Wiccan Christian" you are using Wiccan as an adjective, and are therefore not claiming to be an actual Wiccan, just Wiccan-like. By using a qualifier on Christianity you are specifically stating that what you will be describing is unlike other Christianities. This is evidenced in the great differences between Protestant Christianity, Orthodox Catholic Christianity, Unitarian Christianity, and other Christian schools.
Christianity at its heart, is belief in Jesus Christ as the messianic anointed one promised in the Old Testament. That's it. It doesn't say you must interpret the New or Old testaments in specific ways, it doesn't mean that you even think the Old testament was accurate outside of its promise of the messiah.
I therefore posit that yes you can be a Wiccan-Christian because it is entirely possible to have Wiccan-like beliefs while also believing in Jesus as the messiah.
No, you won't be fully Christian or fully Wiccan, but that's precisely what I said in my last post.
Religion is religion. People have been picking and choosing what is 'correct' for centuries. If one decides that Christianity and Wicca go together in a solid mix, who are we to take that away from them? No reason to.
I agree that you can't start combining a bunch of things with Christianity and expect yourself to still be accepted as a Christian, but saying that it's not possible to combine them is just inaccurate. There are already many different ways of interpreting the Christian God, and if you ask enough denominations you'll eventually find claims that certain interpretations are heretical and against the Bible. We're not even combining faiths yet - we're just talking about already existing Christian denominations.
If Christians themselves can't even agree on the nature of their own God, who the hell are you or I or anyone else to join in and act as voice of authority? There are over 250 recognized Christian denominations today, and every single one of them started as a different interpretation, different practices, different translations, or different texts. This is true even in the beginning of Christianity - there was never a set canon that everyone followed. Originally there were dozens of different gospels and it took Christianity hundreds of years to settle upon including, and only including, the four gospels we find in the Bible today.
So if all Christians came about from different interpretations of different Christ-related stories and teaching with some, like the Mormons, going so far as to include brand new lore even after Christianity was well established, why does the inclusion of some amount of Wicca negate all Christian belief within a person? That doesn't even make a lot of sense.
"Christian-Wiccan" may not be the ideal term, but if it really bothers you then come up with a new, better phrase. Besides, "Blue-Green" is a good enough term for a color which is not quite green and not quite blue, so I genuinely fail to see how "Christian-Wiccan" is not a good enough term for a person who is not quite Christian and not quite Wiccan.
