Le neo-paganisme et les objections du Wiccan au satanisme

Neo-pagan and Wiccan objections to Satanism are both theological and survivalistic. Although the occult world may be said to include Satanists as well as ceremonial magicians who attempt to harness or at least work with demonic forces, pagans in general and most Wiccans in particular eschew any form of Satanism as forming a part of their theological metaphor or focus or even ritual. Part of the obscurity derives from Margaret Murray’s thesis concerning the identity of medieval witches, but I have observed neither Satanic worship at any pagan venue nor read of anything in their literature but firm denial that Satan or any equivalent has a place in pagan or Wiccan theology and/or practice.Despite the rising tide of fundamentalist hysteria and persecution of all occult or New Age orientations and the consequent desire of the pagan community to protect itself from family ruptures (i.e. seizure of their children by state-sponsored social workers), fire bombings, job dismissals, etc., the chief objection to Satanism by Neo-pagans and Wiccans is ethical. Their law of the threefold return is both a defense to be made public in a host society in which the pagan community is a minority member and a potential target for intolerance and an objection to any philosophy or theology which does not support the betterment of the world as an organic and collective whole