What is the difference between Wicca and Church of religious science?

Answer 1

The short answer...uh...everything. By the "Church of religious science," I assume you mean "Christian Scientists," or the "Church of Christ, Scientist." Wicca is basically a pagan religion, a throwback to the days before Christianity, and worships (there is a great deal of variation) what they call "the old gods," which are basically variations and modernizations of pagan gods worshipped in Egypt, Rome, Northern Europe, etc. The Church of Christ, Scientist, worships Jesus Christ as a "scientist," meaning, for example-many Christian Scientists will not patronize doctors of medicine, as they believe Christ is the "scientist," or, in this case, doctor, that will bring healing to them. They believe relying on doctors instead of Christ shows little or no faith in Christ. The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston in the late 19th century, so,of course, it is a "Christianity" influenced by 1800+ years of the incorrect practices of Christianity in various so-called Christian sects. Wicca, that is, the worship of the "old gods," or "old ones," had basically been gone for hundreds of years, when its "ceremonies and worship" were revived in the early 1950's by different aficionados of the occult. Which makes the point-neither are very genuine representations of what they claim to represent. You would find absolutely no "Wiccans," say, in 1920 or 1930. While a few isolated practices may have existed, there was no "Wiccan" movement as there is today. Or any organized examples of such a religion. Instead of being "very old," as it claims, "Wicca" is very, very new. Absolutely no "chain" of contact with anything "Wiccan" goes back prior to about 1950.