I'm Coming Out...

[lestatdark]

dtewi said:

lestatdark said:

I had to tell my parents, who are mildly Christian based, that I had converted to the Wicca religion. It wasn't nice and pretty at the start, and I had to deal with a load of bad stuff coming from them in the first days.

Eventually they grew to accept it, because that's who I am and what I believe, and they (as I) found that there is no reason why the two beliefs couldn't co-exist.

My grandparents (from my father side) were another whole story. They are fervent religious people, they have a gigantic cross on their backyard and have had priest do mass on their house. I was called child of the devil, witch, Satan himself and threatened by them. 

Since then I haven't talked to them, if they chose not to accept me for what I believe then it's their loss, not mine. I will always respect them and accept them for their choices, even though their attitudes really go against what the Christian religion supposedly represents.

I think being a Wiccan would have a much more profound effect than being an athiest.

Like I'd be much more scared of telling my parents I'm a Wiccan than an athiest, since Wiccans are misconstrued as satan-worshipping crazy people while athiests are viewed as crazy people.

You're probably right, but I kinda thought that Wicca being a rather unknown religion here in Europe, especially Portugal, that the reactions wouldn't be as strong as they were. 

As I explained things to my parents further, they began to comprehend slowly why did I convert to Wicca.

 Unfortunately things don't work that way when people already have a close-minded formed misconception, be it for Wicca, Atheism, or pretty much everything else (Buddhists in my country are seen as Yoga bald headed crazies >_>)