A few of my friends and i were talking and the question was raised, Can an athiest be a wiccan?
Yes, an athiest can be a wiccan, but you would probably be more along the lines of a pagan. Wiccans believe in a God and Goddess, and everything (including you and me) are the children of them. Pagans dont really have a traditional God. Some are Athiest, but the majority of Pagans believe that nature and everything around us is connected.
The world Pagan is anyone that practices a religion other than Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. Pagans worship nature and usually follow ancient religions from Europe, the Middle East, Ancient Egypt, and Native American cultures. Most are polytheistic and others are monotheistic. While there is no set god or goddess, most worship some form of deity.
Wicca is a nature-based Pagan religion. It has its roots in the ancient Paganism and Shamanism. It is a religion built around the worship of nature, its aspects, and its deities. There are two deities in the Wiccan religion, the God and the Goddess. Some simply refer to them as the God and the Goddess, others worship a specific Goddess such as Isis and a specific God such as Osiris, and still others believe in a specific deity for every aspect of life be that love, protection, nature, etc.
Atheists have no belief in gods or a higher spiritual power.
Using those definitions, a Wiccan or a Pagan can't be an atheists.
In Traditional Wicca it would be perfectly possible for one to be both atheist and Wiccan. Of course this is because Traditional Wicca is orthopraxic (about how one practices) rather than orthodoxic (about how one believes). For a Traditional Wiccan how one perceives Deity is a personal and experiential thing. One could believe that the Lord and Lady are divine beings...or one could view them as Jungian archetypes. Since what is important is how YOU experience the nature of Deity, either answer would be correct. Most atheist Wiccans that I know (and I don't know many who are) view divinity in the sense of being avatars rather than Divine beings.
