Is Wicca typically associated with angsty and/or immature teenagers?

Well, my older sister is long past her angsty/immature teenager phase and she and her husband are still Wiccan...I think Atheism is a better association - not to say that all atheists are angsty teenagers, of course.Is Wicca typically associated with angsty and/or immature teenagers?
no its usualy people who do spells


and nobody is angsty theyre usualy very calm


ur talking about atheists hereIs Wicca typically associated with angsty and/or immature teenagers?
Not in my opinion. Wicca is a more sophisticated form of witchery (many people will defend wicca but it is what it is, period.) that mostly adults have used over the years, perhaps until recently.
It often is, but that really isn't the case. I know so many people who are very mature who are Wiccan, and a few who are not mature that are Wiccan.
No. I suggest you do some research... not ask people on Yahoo answers.
no, your thinking of Christianity
Yes.


...Sadly, and not even kidding, out of all the teenage wiccans I met, I've only met ONE which wasn't with the ';angsty or immature'; crowd.


The ';adult'; wiccans seems to be fine, minus a few bad apples.





I hate this generalization, but I'm just reporting my findings.
Don't insult the practitioners of the old faiths. Angsty immature people watch TV/movies that portray the old faiths as some thing they are not and bored immature people think they can empower their lame lives by saying ';I'm Wiccan';. It's like christians who claim to be suck but never read the bible or go to their church.
No, they are just silly little wannabees who have no idea what wicca is really about. Merely posers who will move on to the next new thing once that wears off.





And no to the poster who said that all wiccans are hairy overweight women! Apparently you have never wandered the aisles of WalMart and seen the morbidly obese Christians who waddle down the junk food section with their carts loaded!
No, Wicca is typically associated with those who are seeking something other than the Abrahamic beliefs. It is usually their first choice, outside of societies norm, that speaks to people of all ages. Some just study it a while and then look into other beliefs or some stay and follow it's path.





People are more ';enlightened';, I would say, than they were 50 yrs ago, and are looking for a balance in their lives that coincides with their understanding of their spirituality. Wicca is a great starting point for those that are not sure of what they believe or feel.


Each persons spiritual understanding is different for each individual, that is why there are so many different paths to the divine and to enlightenment.





A good example is in the Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Catholicism, Christianity, and Islam, to name a few. All have different denominations of each one. Yes, most believe in one deity, but their understanding of how to be with that deity in their afterlife is different.





The reason most people associate Wicca, first off, with teenagers is because that is when many start to question life and spirituallity. That age is considered and awakening period in many young peoples lives.
The pagan community is made up of many different fractions.


The rebellious teen or teen witch are only one aspect of our community %26amp; is not typical of all our followers.
I don't know any offline Wiccans less than 30, so, um, no.
Associated? Yes.





But that doesn't mean that the actual practitioners ARE angsty and/or immature teenagers. The majority of Wiccans I know are over 25...the youngest I know is 18, but the oldest is in her 60's.





It's a stereotype that Wiccans are a bunch of rebellious teenagers with nothing better to do than wear all black, pentacles the size of hubcaps and hurl curses to get back at bullies. None of this is true. Those who DO, do this, do not represent Wiccans but those only interested in the religion for shock value and not for the spirituality it provides.
sometimes. This usually happens because teenagers are trying to find a way to rebel, and they think wicca is the perfect thing to make them unique and piss their parents off at the same time.





Here's the thing though. 90% of teens are angsty and/or immature. So saying that wicca is typically associated with them is just kind of.... not correct.





Here is the other thing. The wiccan population is growing every day. Typically people think of wiccans as tree-hugging hippies these days, and not immature teens.
Unfortunately it is associated with them. However, I don't believe that the majority of followers are angsty or immature teenagers, but because they speak the loudest about it (part of their angsty immaturity), they become the stereotype. Furthermore, not all Wiccans who begin as teens start because of teen angst but because of legitimate interest in the religion. I began when I was almost 16, but I have always been appalled at the stereotypical teen Wiccan. Fluffy Bunnies have always pissed me off. I didn't start because of any teen angst but because Wicca honestly fit my belief system. My mom had no problem with Wicca, so you can't connect it to my rebel stage either (she even suggested Wicca to me and tried to practice with me...she was the Fluffy Bunny though, not me). So while angsty immature teenagers are the stereotype of Wiccans, they are not the majority of Wiccans, just the loudest most annoying group.


Venus Bless
Also spacey 20 somethings.
yes
Not in my experience -- they more tend to be overweight, hairy chicks who missed out on the Hippie movement, and the men who love them...
It is after the whole 'Blair Witch/ Twilight' episode. You really need to look back as far as you can to get a fair representation.
yes mostly ones looking for a group to belong to and the wicca excepts them. sad isnt it?
Definitely Yes
Wicca (pronounced [藞w瑟k蓹]) is a neopagan, nature-based religion.[1] It was popularized in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant, who at the time called it a ';Witch cult'; and ';Witchcraft';, and its adherents ';the Wica';.[2]





Wiccans, as followers of Wicca are now commonly known, typically worship a Goddess (traditionally the Triple Goddess) and a God[3] (traditionally the Horned God), who are sometimes represented as being a part of a greater pantheistic Godhead, and as manifesting themselves as various polytheistic deities. Other characteristics of Wicca include the ritual use of magic, a basic code of morality, and the celebration of eight seasonally based festivals.





There is dispute as to what actually constitutes Wicca. Initially, this spelling may have referred to the lineage of one of Gardner's rivals, Charles Cardell,[4] although from the 1960s it referred only to lineages stemming from Gardner and operating as initiatory Mystery Priesthoods (such as Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca). These are now collectively known in North America as British Traditional Wicca.[5] A third usage, which has grown in popularity in recent years, considers Wicca to include other forms of Goddess-oriented neopagan witchcraft that are similar to but independent of that lineage, including Dianic Wicca and the 1734 Tradition; these are sometimes collectively termed Eclectic Wicca.