This is perhaps very unfortunate… for you. You are not the first people to be called witches, and have nothing to do with actual, historical witchcraft, either. Your religion, and I use the term in its most perjorative sense and loosest sense, got started by some bored English chits who wanted to play around and pretend they were important. It was popularized by some British dude who didn’t believe a word of it so he could sell some books. Your entire theology is a mash of arbitrarily picked beliefs from random celtic groups, along with a healthy dose of stuff you claim they believed when they had nothing of the kind,m and would probably have killed you for fun.
Second, you annoying people who claim you’re “witches” and talk about earth magic and Gaia and insist on spelling “magic” with a “k” are full of it. I really doubt you believe it either, since you (the cute but psychotic with daddy issues redhead and all) seem to have a huge chip on your shoulder because your daddy (who is paying for your college education and apartment if not food) was a fairly strict Baptist. Yeah, you’re a real rebel there. :rolleyes:
Finally, stop being so hot. It’s not fair that I have to listen to your insipid fails-to-even-be-Leftist drivel while wanting to date you.
I’m not sure it’s fair to simultaneously make fun of someone for believing something you think is nonsensical and make fun of them for not believing something you think is nonsensical.
I mean, apart, “You’re idiots for believing this!” and “You’re clearly faking belief!” are perfectly fine insults (if presumptuous), but not at the same time. Pick one.
Some of Wicca’s detractors try to link it to human sacrifice and that sort of thing, which is complete nonsense. That’s why I don’t take Wicca seriously as a religion – nobody ever got killed over it. Yeah, yeah, the Burning Times. Bullshit, those were Christians being burnt.
I can understand why they’d change the spelling of magic to make it clear they weren’t talking about card tricks and such. Unfortunately, I’m being charitable here because I’ve never actually heard a Wiccan give this perfectly reasonable explanation for what otherwise appears to be pretentiousness. I suspect that this is probably because pretension is the actual reason for the spelling. I have seen early modern documents in which ‘witch’ is spelled with two v’s. I wonder why this doesn’t catch on, while they’re trying to look olde school. Possibly it’s because most people getting involved in this stuff only read the hokey paperbacks from the New Age section of Borders.
Magick with a K isn’t a Wiccan thing. Aleister Crowley invented that device intentionally distinguish it from stage magic. It’s not pretentious at all, it’s an useful way to distinguish what you’re talking about. Of course if you don’t believe in Magick then it’s pretentious by default because well…there’s no such thing, so you must be pretending.
Regardless spelling Magick with a K is a very common usage amongst all occult circles, it’s not even considered controversial, and has nothing to do with Wicca specifically.
I believe you, mostly. I do think that it’s useful for making that distinction, at least in writing. I do not believe that it is not primarily practiced in the service of pretentiousness.
