The worldview we will be looking at is Wicca. It is a religion that many believe to be thousands of years old and that it takes from various traditions of the world. The issue like every worldview is that there are multiple sects that exist within it and each has different core beliefs from one another. I’m not going to discuss every variety of Wicca but just some categorical beliefs that each form will fall in.

For our purposes, we will divide it into 3 broad categories. Those are Monistic Wicca, Pagan Wicca, or Atheistic Wicca.

Monistic Wicca:

1. Metaphysics

In Wicca, there exist a creative force called “The One”. It encompasses all things and is in all things. The One contains a polarity between the “Hunter” and “The fertility Goddess”. These are themselves distinctions that are just a human conceptual scheme to understand “The One”. We for our convenience separate masculine and feminine energies. The religions of the world all reflex “The One”. It is all a matter of convenience of whether you call it a force or “Father, Son, and Spirit”.

i) What is the point of distinguishing between male and female energies if we know they are actually identical? If they aren’t truly identical “The One” reduces to “The Two”.

ii) The reason why they are distinguished because of the limitations of human finitude. That it is our conceptual scheme for understanding “The One”. We are forced to use a conceptual scheme that is actually a distortion of “The One”. This undermines the fact of ever coming to know “The One” actually exists. It is also strange that “the One” is in us and we can’t know it.

iii) They affirm that the world religions are each manifestation or perspective of “The One”. The issue is that each religion claims contradictory propositions to be true.

iv) This worldview suffers from the problem of all monistic worldviews. The fact is that distinction is an illusion and there is no real distinction between you and “The One” and everything else.

2. Logic

If everything is identical, then nothing can be distinct. It forces everything and their opposites to be identical. Since nothing has a distinction in that worldview it has no basis for the laws of logic. “The One” itself is an infinite force and is not a transcendent mind to ground the laws of logic.

3. Ethical

If the “One” is in everything, then it makes up good and evil. That means evil and goodness are identical. The “One” is an infinite force and not a personal being. What obligation can come from an impersonal force? Moral commands and obligations seem to presuppose an absolute personal commander. In this view, evil is just as ultimate as good.

4. Science

The issue is if everything is made up of “The One”, then we only need study ourselves. We are made up of the only thing that does exist. The “One” is an impersonal force that has no obligation to us. So, why suppose that nature would have regularities under a Wicca worldview?

5. Knowability

“Instead they believe in an unknowable Ultimate Deity.”

If the God of Wicca is unknowable, then how can we ever know that it is true?

6. Epistemology

Wiccans prefer to accept relativism. That truth is not absolute. It is a matter of perspective and opinion. The issue is that relativism is self-refuting.The truth of relativism is only true to the one that proposes that it is true. If I reject relativism, then relativism is both true and false. If relativism is true, then we have no reason to argue for anything. In every debate, each debater is both wrong and right.

Pagan Wicca:

1. Metaphysics

The difficulty is that the Wiccan is just picking and choosing arbitrary traditions in order to create their own worldview. That means they can latch on to any other paganism. That makes it very difficult to critique each and every story. They take from different myths like the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Nordic gods. The problem with paganism is that gods in this universe are the product of the universe.

The issue is that the laws of logic, Truth, and Mathematics couldn’t exist in such a worldview. The universe takes precedence over the gods that arise from it. Those are comprised of propositions that are necessarily true. There are infinite amounts of these truths. They are not dependant on time(eternal) or space(abstract). They are mind-dependent entities. They are also immutable. It entails that timeless, spaceless, necessary, abstract, and mental dependent entities. If that is the case, then a timeless, spaceless, necessary, infinite mind exists. That contradicts the pagan myths they use.

They may try to ground logic in these pagan deities. The issue with that option is the ontology of the pagan gods. Pagan gods aren’t absolute. They are also capricious. That means they can arbitrarily change the laws of logic. If the gods are contingent products of the universe, then it would mean the laws of logic, truth, and Mathematics are contingent.

2. Epistemology

The issue is that the epistemology they affirm usually is relativism. If paganism is true, then you have no basis for thinking that they have created you to understand the world. The pagan gods aren’t absolute, nor are they trustable. They themselves may be deceiving you.

3. Ethics

The problem of paganism is that it lacks an absolute basis for these fundamental issues. Why should one love Zeus over Hades? What makes Zeus morally superior?

The other issue is that goodness is incompatible with capricious mutable deities. This is established by presenting the Euthyphro dilemma. Is something good because the gods will it, or is it good because it actually is good? The former makes goodness arbitrary and the latter makes goodness something transcendent to the gods.

4. Science

If these gods exist they can arbitrarily change the regularities of nature. What basis would exist for inductive inference?

Atheistic Wicca

1. Metaphysics

The same issue arises for this option as the previous. Issues of logic, truth, and mathematics arise and they cannot give an account for it. Why suppose in this worldview that your mind is reliable? Or that it gives you actual access to the external world?

2. Epistemology

How do these biological beings able to know anything?

3. Ethics

How can one have objective moral values without an absolute personal God?

4. Science

How can the Athiest Wiccan account for induction?

In conclusion, I have tried to show Wicca for the idol it is. I hope that it helps, but I can’t address all the silly different forms of this ridiculous worldview. If you are Wiccan and think I have not dealt with your version, then provide your version and links for your version in the comments. Other than that I wish you turn and believe in Jesus Christ. It is only in his Gospel you can be saved.