Satanism, Wicca, and Christianity

1. Satanism
• It generally refers to the worship of Satan and/or the practice of magic
• Reverse Christian Satanists worship Satan as he is depicted in the Bible
• The Church of Satan, founded by Anton Szandor La Vey, the author of the Satanic Bible, teaches its followers to reject God and Christ, follow their own passions and desires, to show kindness to friends but to attack one’s enemies

2. Wicca
• Wicca is a pagan, nature-based religion popularized in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant, who at the time called it Witchcraft and its adherents “the Wicca”
• It is supposedly a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian paganism of Europe
• Wicca has distinctive ritual forms, seasonal observances and religious, magical and ethical precepts

3. Wicca Beliefs
• Though the vast majority of Wiccans believe in some form of God, and/or gods, most see Wicca as a duotheistic religion worshipping a God and a Goddess, who are seen as complementary polarities, and embodiments of a life-force manifest in nature
• Most Wiccans believe in reincarnation and an afterlife
• Wiccans believe in magic and use spells and rituals to manipulate the physical and spiritual world

4. Wicca Morality
• Morality is summed up in the phrase, “Do what you will”
• You are free to act on any and all impulses while accepting the consequences of those actions
• According to the “Law of Threefold Return” all of your actions, whether benevolent or malevolent, will return back on you in triple force
• Many seek to cultivate the eight virtues: mirth, reverence, honour, humility, strength, beauty, power and compassion

5. Wicca Rituals
• Magic and spells are performed in a circle, often marked by the four elements: air, fire, water, earth; some add a fifth element: spirit
• The pentagram symbolizes the four elements with the spirit leading at the top
• Often a set of magical tools is used: broom (besom), cauldron, chalice, wand, Book of Shadows, altar cloth, athame, boline, candles, crystals, pentacle and/or incensem which are placed on an altar in the middle of the circle
• Special rituals are held on specific days in each season based on the lunar calendar

6. Satanic Rituals
• Members meet Friday nights and at other times depending on the lunar calendar
• Members dress in black and meet after dark in remote locations near trees and water
• Rituals often include dancing, wild music, feasting, sexual acts, confession and renunciation of good deeds, renunciation of God and Jesus, unholy water (urine), toads, inverted crucifixes, incense, crucibles, sulfur and candles
• Sometimes an animal is sacrificed and the blood is spilled onto a naked girl tied to the altar
• Demons and other spiritual beings are called upon and Tarot cards, Ouija boards and crystals are used for divination

7. Satanism, Wicca, and Christianity
• Many people get involved in witchcraft because it offers them power over other people and things, secret knowledge, supernatural experiences, success, and freedom to indulge their desires
• Often a contractual obligation needs to be entered into with demonic forces, either explicitly or implicitly
• Those who delve into witchcraft and Satanism open themselves up to demonic oppression and possession
• Satanism, more than Wicca, is anti-Christian in that it seeks to pervert and contradict Christian theology and practice
• The Bible repeatedly condemns witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination, magic and the like
• The powers behind witchcraft and Satanism are not friendly, but are opposed to God and will seek to destroy man
• Satan often transforms himself into an angel of light in order to deceive men into following him
• Much of what passes for witchcraft is fake but there are real forces behind some who claim such powers
Ex. 22:18 “Do not allow a sorceress to live.
Lev. 19:26 “‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. “‘Do not practice divination or sorcery.
Lev. 19:31 “‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Lev. 20:6 “‘I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him off from his people.
Lev. 20:27 “‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’”
Deut. 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Deut. 18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
Deut. 18:11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
Deut. 18:14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
1Sam. 15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”
1Sam. 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land.
1Sam. 28:7 Saul then said to his attendants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.” “There is one in Endor,” they said.
2Kings 17:17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sorcery and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
2Kings 21:6 He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
2Kings 23:24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.
1Chr. 10:13 Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
Is. 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Is. 19:3 The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.
Is. 47:12 “Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.
Is. 47:13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.
Jer. 27:9 So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
Jer. 27:10 They prophesy lies to you that will only serve to remove you far from your lands; I will banish you and you will perish.
Dan. 2:2 So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king,
Mal. 3:5 “So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.
Acts 8:9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,
Acts 8:11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.
Acts 13:6 They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-jesus,
Acts 13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
Acts 16:16 Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
Gal. 5:20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
Gal. 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Rev. 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
Rev. 22:15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.