Christio-Paganism/Trinitarian Wicca and How They are Incompatible

Labels seem to be a bone of contention among many Pagans...they have a hard time finding a label that fits, and sometimes that means they squish that round peg into that square hole, distorting it as they do.

I've come across a couple of people who are trying their HARDEST to convince that their system can indeed work, and with each and every explanation, I find more and more questions as to how they think it's possible.

One "blog" entry I found tries to go into detail about "Christian Wicca and Christio-Paganism" and really, the author talks about none of the above.

For example, she lists the "common" arguments against Christian Wicca, then tries to refute them, by saying:
"in actual fact, these arguments have little to do with Christian Wicca at all...and it describes Wiccans who worship the ancient Canaanite pantheon".
If that were true, wouldn't that make them 'Canaanite' Wiccans then, instead of Christio Pagans, for the simple fact that Christianity is, at its very heart, a monotheistic religion, worshiping the God of Abraham, who says to not have any other Gods before him (which would include the Canaanite deities)??

"Therefore it can be said that Christian Wicca is actually not Christian at all".
Then how in the hell can you call what you practice "Christian Wicca"??? "Trinitarian" Wicca is just as misleading as calling it "Christian Wicca". The idea would be that you are worshiping is the "Holy Trinity" by calling it "Trinitarian Wicca", and that "Holy Trinity" would be The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. In Wicca you need to have the opposing forces of masculine and feminine to have proper balance. Nowhere in the Holy Trinity is there some sort of feminine divine force. So how can what you practice be Wiccan? Celebrating the 8 Sabbats and 13 Esbats? The Esbats focus on the Feminine Divine or the Goddess...there is no Goddess in Christianity, so how can you celebrate an Esbat? That doesn't make sense!

Wicca is not just about celebrating holidays and upholding the Rede. In essence the Rede is more or less like the Golden Rule Jesus set forth "Do unto others you would have them do unto you". You don't have to be Wiccan to follow the Rede, necessarily. It simply means to think before you act; do as many harmLESS acts as you like; treat others as you want to be treated, and all that. Essentially, COMMON SENSE!

Wicca, at IT'S heart, is God AND Goddess worship. It's not solely holiday celebrations and rule following. If you take out the God and Goddess; opposing masculine and feminine forces, then what you're doing is NOT Wicca. At all!

You can't simply slap a label onto something then try to fit what you're doing into that label, you distort the label as you do, twisting and turning it into something it never originally was.

Eventually, with all this twisting and distorting Wicca, turning it into a "Whatever you want it to be" label, Wicca is no longer going to be what it was originally, and will cease to exist. People need to STOP trying to combine Wicca with other religions, and then slapping the Wicca label on it. They're killing the religion when they do.

Plain and simple, Wicca is:
-A Polytheistic religion, focusing on God AND Goddess worship
-An Earth-Based Religion (meaning focusing on the here and now, not worrying about the afterlife)
-BASED...on Pre-Christian beliefs (while being a 20th Century religion)
-Stressing PERSONAL experiences with the divine (not watching a priest do all the work for you)
-Believing the Spiritual and mundane worlds as overlapping (deities are both here and on another plane)
-Stressing personal responsibility (no one can take away YOUR "sins". YOU...are responsible for your actions)

If it's not Wicca, don't call it "Wicca".