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Monday, September 24, 2007

From Catholic to Wiccan

Hello again! Now you may be wondering exactly why i decided to become a witch ( or maybe you're not...but you get to hear about it anyway lol). I'm not a hereditary witch. I was not born into a Wiccan family, nor was I brought up in the Wiccan culture. In fact I was born and raised as a Roman Catholic. I did the whole thing, said my prayers at bedtime, went to Mass every Sunday and even attended Catholic school up untill 9th grade. As I got older my mom and I had some serious talks dealing with religion. I loved (and still love) Jesus Christ and I beleived (as I do now) that he came to this world to teach us, guide us, and to help us lead better lives. However, I was confused and disillusioned by aspects of the church that seemed more political than spiritual. In particular, I was disturbed by the prevailing certainity that Catholisism was the only path to God. It seemed to me that since God made all of us, that He would love us equally whether we called ourselves Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, etc. Why should God care what we called Him? Parents typically don't care if you call them mom or mother, dad or father...so why would our Heavenly Father mind if He was called Allah instead of Jahova? Both terms have the same love and reverance behind them and I felt that that was what really mattered to our Lord. I was sure that God cared more about how we treated eachother, the animalls, and this beautifull world He gave to us than what religous group we put ourselves into. The idea that God would put us into a world full of innumerable differant religions and say "pick the right one or else I'll turn my back on you," seemed terribly unfair and extremely unlikely, My mother expressed the same questions and concerns. ...AHH Rowan just woke up...I'll have to continue this post manana untill then...stay safe and stay happy :).

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