I have always had a problem with this. I still claim myself to be a Christian, I can find nothing that prohibits me from practicing magick in the Bible. But then again I have always found myself to be a very liberal Christian. I try very hard to not be closed minded about anything and to look at it from both perspectives. But, in relevance to this thread, this is the reason why no one knows that I am a pagan; because if I were to flaunt it openly I can only imagine what would shower down upon me. I know that pagans don't worship the devil, if anything we make things much better for others around us, as much as I wish that people will accept us, they will not. Not until the corrupted and bullheaded Vatican falls. They have so thoroughly brainwashed people into believing that we are evil they can not open their eyes to the light. God himself created all the powers and nature that we use, how can using what he has created be a sin?
hehe its a good thin that im not and cristian so no church will come near me im muslim. and no one will get killed in the muslim religion just becose they are witches or any other craft users :)
I've always found that the catholic church is somewhat....arrogant. They follow the bible and wat not but look at all the chaos that it elicits. Christians look at witches as evil, because they simply don't understand what they do. They don't understand invoking gods and spells and stuff. Because they don't understand, they assume its evil. They look at homosexuals as being evil simply because they don't understand why someone would want to like someone of the same sex. I was watching a movie on lifetime and it was a true story about this boy who was born a boy but really felt happy if he were a girl. Soo at the age of 17 he started cross dressing. Well some kids didn't like that so they brought him somewhere, beat him up for FIVE hours straight, than tied him up, strangled him and buried him. Than they went and had breakfast at a diner. They did all that because someone had the guts to be open about himself. How come we can't be open about being gay or practicing witchcraft. O and btw those kids were NOT convicted of hate crime. It says freedom of religion yet, we still practice in secrecy. I always see bible shops and christian shops and church is always live on tv. How come none of that stuff for wicca or paganism? Freedom of religon my ass. More like freedom of christianity
In response to the starting post of the thread. I highly doubt that we will be attacked in any sort of way....those who practice magick have been around since the beginning of time and yes...have been persecuted in the past but in todays world...it would be too hard to bring any sort of religious persecution into the public eye.
The only way i can see anyone being institutionalized is if people become to "out there" with their claims. There are those on this site that claim to be what they could never be....wherewolves and vampires and ferries...all these things do exist but not to the extent that we see in movies....making claims to be like those in the movies is what gives us who practice real magick a bad name. If these claims end there will be nothing to worry about.
Well for us that aren't following wicca they could hunt and even though they can't hurt wicccans for the following it they could hurt us for witchcraft since it's not a religon.
