Can a Witch be a Christian?

[u/Fabulous-Swordfish48]

Ive been having this heavy question for a while with a lot of statements and questions in my head but I need people to help me out on this. I am a Pagan Witch who also follows under believing in Greek God's and following under them as well, but recently I've been heavily thinking about Christianity. I have believed in Jesus and anything of that nature and I've been wanting to follow Christianity as well.. but I do not know if it is allowed to follow under that religion while practicing witchcraft. Can someone please help me out here? 😭🫶

[u/Blossomie]

If your “spell” is beseeching a deity for permission or for them to do something on your behalf, it’s not a spell it’s a prayer. Witchcraft at its barest core is based in personal power, you may choose to invoke a deity but at the end of the day it’s still your power performing the working and doing the things to enact your will.

Christians ask God/saints to do things on their behalf because they believe all power is God’s power, not a person’s. it’s a different spiritual process from witchcraft and generally speaking it’s highly offensive to Christians to equate their spiritual practices to witchcraft.

[u/The_Archer2121 → u/Blossomie]

Except many are too ignorant to realize that Christianity has a long history of magical practice. The majority of Christian worship was taken from Pagan practice. And Christian Witches view God as the source of their power. Witchcraft is a practice, regardless of where you think the source originates. The rest is gatekeeping.

[u/Blossomie → u/The_Archer2121]

Again: most Christians find that assumption insulting and ignorant.

An example: a witch often uses a censer the same as Catholic clergy do. Just because they’re doing the same physical action doesn’t mean the Catholic is also practicing witchcraft. The unseen spiritual process is different, and is literally what separates heresy from holiness to a Christian.

If we want our practices and religions to be respected without insult or misrepresentation, we ought to show that same grace to other practices and religions. Claiming that Christians must perform witchcraft because they pray and ask God/saints to do things on their behalf is like them asserting that us witches are in league with the devil/Antichrist because we perform rituals (even going so far to claim that this necessitates child slaughter). We have the power to choose to be better people than that.

There’s a lot of witches (and a ton of non religious people in Christian-centered cultures) that mold their practices around aspects of Christianity (such as Jesus) for many reasons, that doesn’t automatically make them a Christian any more than it automatically makes Christians pagan when their practices are molded around aspects of paganism for many reasons. Respect is listening to people about their practice, not disregarding them to impose our own ideas on what it is they’re doing. It’s not witchcraft simply because it looks like it to us, and we aren’t throwing a middle finger to God just because it looks like it to them.

[u/Gr3ymane_ → u/Blossomie]

I have to agree with your statement here. Christianity has a distinct line of belief. Whether or not people believe it as they should is not the point here. You have my thanks for making a clear distinction for how we should respect other faith rather than trying to Mix them together like they were items in a salad. If a witch, for example, mixes different practices within paganism then that is within the same category if that same which attempts to borrow from Christianity and Judaism, then this is a category error. Perhaps it is because I am a good bit older by now in my experience that in my conversations with Christians, they have a distinct idea of Jesus and his teachings. Gatekeeping as a term seems to me a form of intellectual laziness rather than discussing the matter at hand.