Wicca as a religion

When most people think of religion they associate with local religious building, ministers preaching, a male deity and an extensive creed. These things are not really present with in Wicca. This makes most people believe that Wicca is not a religion. Even thought you can find aspect of these things within Wicca.

Wicca believe that all of nature is there church what better building can be made thin the naturally landscape that surround us every day. There are Priest and Priestess with in the religion. There is a male deity and there is a code, which we will look at later and extensive ideology.  

The District Court of Virginia declared in 1985 (Dettmer v Landon, 617 F Suup 592 [E. Dst. Va.]) that Wicca is "clearly a religion for First Amendment purposes....Members of the Church sincerely adhere to a fairly complex set of doctrines relating to the spiritual aspect of their lives, and in doing so they have 'ultimate concerns' in much the same way as followers of more accepted religions. Their ceremonies and leadership structure, their rather elaborate set of articulated doctrine, their belief in the concept of another world, and their broad concern for improving the quality of life for others gives them at least some facial similarity to other more widely recognized religions." ₁ This was a landmark case.

"I don't think witchcraft is a religion. I would hope the military officials would take a second look at the decision they made." G.W. Bush (R), as Governor of Texas. Interviewed on ABC's Good Morning America, 1999-JUN-24. He disapproved of Wiccan soldiers being given the same religious rights as others in the military.

However on April 27th, 2007 government and military reorganized Wicca as an organized religion. 
 

This symbol has been on our money almost as long as we have been a country and it is a Wicca symbol