I'm Coming Out...

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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.

As I know next to nothing about Wiccans Im curious what its all about. The small bit I do know is religious fanatics seem to use them as a scapegoat for just about everything. Think i read somewhere that despite the Harry Potter series apparently being dubbed as an attempt to indoctrinate children as witches, it has next to nothing to do being a Wiccan (as far as Im aware). In fact (as Im guessing your relatives are Christian), check some of their beliefs. Splitting the sea, turning water into wine and raising the dead (all part of the Bible) sounds a lot like witchcraft to me.