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That's a linguistics debate. Are all Christians fake christians just because the god they believe in is an imaginary friend? Or are they real christians because they actively believe in their imaginary friend?
Or was your argument that the age of a belief lends creedence to it's legitimacy regardless of its truth value?
It is a wholly constructed faith based partly on fragments of things that existed previously but with no input from those cultures so there's no "authentic" Wiccan beliefs other than those from the 1950s.
Your idea of faith seems to be mostly guided by the abrahamic faiths. They claim to be the literal truth, on the other hand most other religions are a lot less categorical.
In the introduction to one of his books, Aleister Crowley says :
I don’t know the position of Wiccans, but Thelema (where the term “Magick” originates) literally says “we actually don’t give a fuck whether these things are true. Actually, scratch that, if you believe in them you’re an idiot”
I don’t think Wiccans are under any illusion their religion isn’t constructed. I believe it’s even part of their practice to actively construct new things within it, establish their own spells and whatnot.
Thelema was also intentionally created though they are unrelated as far as I am aware.
Wiccans are not a monolith. Some have claimed to be an ancient faith reborn while others are aware of the hodgepodge nature.