Re: At what point does a person stop being Wiccan and become something else?
Yup, AFAIC, Wicca=a duotheistic belief in deity or a soft-polytheistic duotheism, some sort of religiously significant WOTY mythological construct, a rationalization of the Rede and incorporation of that rationalization into one's religious ethics and some semblance of worship in the ritual format created by Gardner.
There are a number of offshoots though, that still call themselves Wiccan, and vary a bit in things like deity-belief or adherence to the Rede. Dianic Wicca for one, Trinitarian Wicca (a specific form of Christian-Wicca)...and most of the Wiccans that I know have very non-literal beliefs in things like the Rede and the three-fold law (even--or maybe I should say especially--among the couple of Gardnerians I know). But I really don't know any Wiccans that don't keep the WOTY, and don't have a formal ritual structure (at least not on a regular basis--maybe on a experimental basis) roughly following the format laid out by Gardner.
Yup, AFAIC, Wicca=a duotheistic belief in deity or a soft-polytheistic duotheism, some sort of religiously significant WOTY mythological construct, a rationalization of the Rede and incorporation of that rationalization into one's religious ethics and some semblance of worship in the ritual format created by Gardner.
There are a number of offshoots though, that still call themselves Wiccan, and vary a bit in things like deity-belief or adherence to the Rede. Dianic Wicca for one, Trinitarian Wicca (a specific form of Christian-Wicca)...and most of the Wiccans that I know have very non-literal beliefs in things like the Rede and the three-fold law (even--or maybe I should say especially--among the couple of Gardnerians I know). But I really don't know any Wiccans that don't keep the WOTY, and don't have a formal ritual structure (at least not on a regular basis--maybe on a experimental basis) roughly following the format laid out by Gardner.
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