A Question Of Religion

(with A Christian Speaks On The Faith And Path Of Wicca: A Situation Of Strife And Shame)

by Rev. Arthur Morris with James Clement Taylor

For the record, I am a minister with the CSP, the Universal Life Church and several other churches. I am a radical Christian, meaning that I do not think God came to earth and wrote the Bible with his own hands the way some of my brothers and sisters of the faith seem to think. I believe that God gave us Teachers, Preachers and Prophets, and that he gave to man the knowledge to know the difference. I also believe that the Bible is an inspired book of knowledge, but not the only inspired book of knowledge. I believe that there is more than one way to grace, and that my brand of Christianity is not the only way.

I hear this question all the time, "How can one believe that Wicca is not a Satanic religion and claim to be a minister?" Well, in answer to that question allow me to refer you to this article that was sent to me from a friend of mine. It is a Christian talking about Wicca.


(Comment to Jim Taylor from Rev. Morris: I am a Christian and not a Wiccan. A Christian is one who has been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and who has made a personal, free-will decision to commit himself and all his or her life to our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Both of these things are true of me. I am a Greek Orthodox Christian, a member of St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, Pueblo, Colorado. In this paper, I am not speaking as agent for any church, but I am, entirely on my own responsibility, speaking the truth in love, as we Christians are supposed to do.)


A Christian Speaks On The Faith And Path Of Wicca: A Situation Of Strife And Shame:

by James Clement Taylor


There are many Christians today who believe that anyone who is not a Christian is doomed to an eternity of suffering in hell.

Any decent person, believing this, would be compelled to try to save as many people from this fate as possible. But is this belief correct? Jesus Christ, having noted the faith and righteousness of a Roman centurion, a Pagan, proclaimed: "Assuredly I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 8:10-12)

If we accept these words as true, and surely we should, then it is clear that heaven will contain many who are not Christians, and hell will contain many who are! Clearly, throughout the Gospels, Jesus Christ sets forth the criteria for entrance into the kingdom of heaven, and those criteria include love, kindness, forgiveness, and a refusal to judge others:

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:14-15)

"For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you." (Matthew 7:2)

"But go and learn what this means: `I desire mercy and not sacrifice." (Matthew 9:13)

"Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be for-given." (Luke 6:36-38)

Is it not clear? Anyone who fails in these things, will calling himself a Christian save him? Anyone who obeys God in these things, will being unbaptized condemn him? Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." (Matthew 7:21)

In addition to these words from the Gospel, let us look at the words of Micah the Prophet, centuries earlier, who wrote: ”He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:6-8)

Where, in any of this, does it say what doctrines one is to believe, or whose teachings concerning reality one must accept? All these things speak on how one ACTS, how one lives one's life, the kind of person one's actions gradually bring into being.

Yet it is not by good works that we earn our way into heaven, because there is no way we can earn the free gift of God's mercy and grace, which alone can save us.

But it is clear that it is not by faith, in the sense of sharing the Christian faith that we are saved, either. The faith, which saves us, is not faith in the goodness of our works, nor faith that we have the right theology and/or belong to the right church. Rather, it is faith in God, and in His mercy: "So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy." (Romans 9:16)

But the Wiccans, you will say, do not have faith in God. Yet by their own theology, they certainly do. Those who call them Satan-worshippers are entirely wrong. They do not worship Satan, or even believe that Satan exists. Instead, they worship a Goddess and a God whom they understand as manifestations of a higher and unknown Deity.

Now if you are a Christian, this will sound familiar to you, and it should. In the Bible we find the following: "Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, `Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you." (Acts 17:22-23)

The Wiccans worship the Unknown God, as manifested to them in the form of a Goddess and a God. Therefore, our Bible tells us they worship the same God we do; and if they do not know this, we should know it!

For those of us who are unable to simply stand on God's Word, and must prove to themselves the truth of what it proclaims the holy Apostle John has given us the method for doing this. You have only to attend any public Wiccan ceremony, and test the spirits, which are there, to see "whether they are of God." (1 John 4:1) You will find that, while you may perceive the power manifested there as less than what you have experienced as a Christian, that power is clearly the power of God.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, these people of Wicca have been terribly slandered by us. They have lost jobs, and homes, and places of business because we have assured others that they worship Satan, which they do not. We have persecuted them, and God will hold us accountable for this, you may be sure, for He has said: "Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to Me." (Matthew 25:40)

Let us, from this point onward, repent of our misdeeds and declare that henceforth we shall obey Christ our God, and not judge others or condemn them, so that He will not have to judge and condemn us for our sins.

Light & Life,
James Clement Taylor


Now you have read the words of James Taylor who is a Christian and he does not condemn the Wiccans, and he understands the Wiccan religion. He is an enlightened Christian and he should be commended for his courage to speak out and to face the scorn from his fellow “Christians”, who will undoubtedly say that he has been duped by the very people he is supposed to hate being a Christian.

However, they should remember that Christ himself sat at the table with Politicos, and Pharisees. And the very people that the "Christians" condemn. Christ was a learned master and he knew that not everyone was a bad person just because they did not believe the way that the general population told him he was supposed to believe.

In that sense of the word Christ would not be accepted as a Christian today since he did not believe that everything was Black and White. In fact if Christ came to earth today I have to wonder if he would be accepted as a Christian at all since he would not be like the masses expect him to be.

He might as Archbishop Guffey wrote in his article “Would Jesus wear A Rolex?” be a street person working with the prostitutes, pimps and criminals of today as opposed to having a big TV show and flying across the world on his own Private JET.

We have some “Christian” Ministers who wear designer clothing and spend thousands of dollars each year to be sure they have the very best of everything yet they claim to be a man of God and preach the word that God has given them. They condemn Wicca as being a Pagan religion yet few even know what the word Pagan meant in the beginning.

In the beginning Pagan meant those who lived in the country as opposed to living in the city. Then they condemn the Heathen Religions as being ungodly, in the beginning the word meant one who lived on the hearth or a person who lived in a house with a fireplace.

Ok, so we now know that Wicca is not a Satanic Religion and the meanings of the two words that are used today to mean entirely different things, than they did in the very beginning.

So what is the message I am trying to pass on here today? The message is that just because someone believes differently than you do doesn’t make him or her an ungodly person or someone that is going to be punished in hell for all eternity.

Thank you Mr. James Taylor for your insight, and I hope that this article or sermon will make those of you who have differing beliefs think twice before you condemn that person. I for the record speak only for myself and not for any church or religion or group.

Blessings to you Brothers and Sisters for reading this.

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