So I got to thinking recently.....I'm sure you have all discovered this is a dangerous pool for me to swim in......and I have this tendency to link... 2 Comments
So recently one of my old posts got ressurrected and tossed around :
http://noblepagan.com/wicca-86/sacred_space_your_altar-2776/
It was a... 7 Comments
Okay so here I am a practioner of Wicca for 17 years. A lot of you already know that though. This does NOT mean that I am the most Wiccany or Witchy... 9 Comments
After sharing The Spiritual Component of Autism (Pantheon) and reading the discussions that followed, I got to thinking about how medication effects... 4 Comments
Thankfully Spain has become very tolerant with religious minorities. Of course, I have had my share of Mormons, Jehova Witnesses and the like, but nothing important - actually I like to greet them with my complete attention and them hit them with some of my evil questions about theology (insert evil witch laugh here)... if you don't want to know what I think, don't knock on my door!
We don't hide it, but we don't speak about it much, mainly because all family and friends have known for years (we were both pagans way before we met). As we have our own business, we don't have to hide from bosses or coworkers- but honestly we're very tired of answering the same stupid questions over and over again.
One fun story: once two mormons knocked on my door and as usual I invited them in. We talked for about an hour and when they realized they had nothing to do and got tired of trying to convert me, they asked me if I'd like to pray with them before they left. "Of course" I said. They said a beautiful prayer and i did pray with them. I have nothing against praying with other people!
When they finished, I said "Well OK, now would you like to pray with me to MY Gods?"
They both turned white LOL - but they were brave guys and accepted. I didn't want to offend them, just to teach them some tolerance, so I said a simple, beautiful prayer in praise of Obatala. I have to say in their defense that they were very nice, prayed with me and left, probably to wash their mouths with bleach after praying to an ancient pagan African God.
After they left I laughed until my stomach ache.
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I spoke before about how my mother can sometime be a little... difficult (complete B!+{#) about my beliefs. But on the other hand, in all honesty, my father isn't so bad. It was, after all, HIS mother from whom I learned most of what I know today.
She was also a witch and was very vocal about it. He converted to Catholicism when he was 13 then to Southern Baptist when he met my mother. So he's less offended by my actual religion and more of the fact that I could make him look bad to his peers by being "some one of loose morals". Because we all know that every pagan is a "depraved, drug taking, law breaking, sadistic, devil worshiping heathen... right?
And on the third hand, my brother isn't really of any opinion about my beliefs other than he doesn't want me to do overtly "witchy" things around his place because it makes his friends uncomfortable.
I am not Pagan, but I am atheist. I have had to hide this fact since moving to the midwest. It is so religious out here and we live in a very catholic town. People here get upset with you just for not going to church at least once a week, let alone how they would treat us if they knew I don't even believe in their god. We actually outright lie about our religious preferences (my fiance is agnostic), which is not something I am comfortable with. Unfortunately, most of the people here are that closed-minded.
My fiance's father-in-law passed away a couple weeks ago. His wife and children know he was atheist, but in an effort to preserve their standing in the community and/or save his soul, they openly talked about him being very religious. I was pretty frustrated because it just hammered home how much I have to hide who I really am.
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I don't like that people are so closed minded sis it just makes me angry. You know me i'm always one to argue a point if I feel someone is missing it. *laughs* On the question at hand though..
For me I am a very open person about my religion, I wear rings with both a pentacle and a pentagram so pretty much anyone can tell if they just look at my hands. I never refer to the holidays by there Christan names as a general rule either. However, I live in a neighborhood where there is almost literally a church on every corner. Two blocks up there is a catholic church and school. As a conession to them and to keep myself from being harrased by well meaning door to door ministries I don't say anything about my religion as a general rule when i'm out and about. If someone asks great but otherwise no.
To my family well, my cousin and my extended family are very religious people. They believe in the bible and that it is the word. For that purpose I agree to keep topics of religion on the down-low when they are around. My cousin isn't always as curtious to me but I forgive her. LOL Oddly my grandmother is totally fine with my religion and she just goes on with her life and lets me be however I want. *laughs* Family reunions are strange because she and my second cousins are alright with it but everyone else gets all freaked out. LOL So in a way yes I do have to hide it but in a way I don't. On fourms etc no I don't and when i'm at school I really could care less but when i'm around church people I try and be tactful and discreet.
Spooder says she has never really had to hide her beliefs.....she and others like her have to hide in general because of the general ignorance and misunderstanding that others have towards Spiders and other arachnids in general.
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