I was so glad to come across traditional witchcraft, because it meant I didn't have to be in the pagan basket anymore.

Witches work with magic. Pagans do not.
Pagans have an understanding of deity, whether it be more than one or everything is one. Witches don't. You can be a witch and follow a religion or not. You can be a witch and be atheist. The point is paganism is a religion, witchcraft is not. Its a practice, a thing that I do.

Adante wrote:
I was so glad to come across traditional witchcraft, because it meant I didn't have to be in the pagan basket anymore.

Witches work with magic. Pagans do not.
Pagans have an understanding of deity, whether it be more than one or everything is one. Witches don't. You can be a witch and follow a religion or not. You can be a witch and be atheist. The point is paganism is a religion, witchcraft is not. Its a practice, a thing that I do.

I agree with this more than most of what has been said here. I think a witch can be a pagan, or any other religion. So, being a pagan doesn't make one not a witch, but being a pagan doesn't make someone a witch either.

The problem with defining a pagan as anything not Christian, Jew, or Muslim, is that religions like Native American religions, Eastern religions, and African religions don't really fit into the pagan or neo-pagan categories, at least in their pure forms. It might work to define it as European religions that aren't Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.

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