So, if you're a Wiccan/Pagan, have you ever had some fundie start bashing you out of nowhere? Like say they say you wearing a pentacle.
2007-10-09 09:51:38 · 10 answers · asked by Cheez Doodle 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really.
A few bad experiences in high school. One or two zealous young people becomming my friends only to invite me to a Christian function. When I went with them, but made no effort to accept Jesus as my pesonal savior, etc, they lost interest in me and never spoke to me again.
Otherwise not much. I got more than one compliment on my goddess pendant when I wore it.
2007-10-09 09:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I've been lucky enough to not have one bashing me directly to my face, but I do have a funny story.
I grew up in a tiny little town. The K-12 school only had 700 students. There were something like 7 churches in this little town, I still don't know how they supported them all. And was a bedroom community (mostly older residents).
My self and one other person, a friend, were Wiccan, he also happened to be gay. My friend and I were very open about being pagan. We were asked to paint a window for Halloween 1 year and made a big Samhain scene on it with Pagan Terms Like Wiccan, Happy Samhain, Blessed Be. Well needless to say they washed the window clean minutes after we painted it. And word got around town fast. After that the little old ladies would cross the street so they wouldn't have to walk on the same sidewalk as we were walking.
My parents still live in the town ( I moved out 9 years ago) and invariably still hear stories about my "cult" or my "coven" although I have always been a solitary.
2007-10-09 10:01:47 · answer #2 · answered by MelpomeneTears 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a "fundie" as you call it, an informed one at that. I have to tell you though, not all "fundies" believe the pentacle is a satanic sign, in fact I know agnostics who have no clue what it represents and assume its satanic. In fact, alot of non-pagans dont know, not just Christians. Just some outside information you might normally not have received from this question. Gods peace.
2007-10-09 10:01:03 · answer #3 · answered by Loosid 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i had some issue with it.
~in hs i had a few people harass me & spread rumors about me killing babies & drinking their blood. also beggin me not to turn them into a toad (i replied "too late! someone already beat me to it!). i was apparently part of a satanic cult as well.
~i was fired from a job (someone saw my "Spiral Dance" book sticking out of my bag--it's actually categorized as a women's studies book, btw)
~i was suspened from school (for reading the same book. funny how the bible was allowed)
~i went to a baptism (wait, there's more!) wearing my small pentacle (not very noticable, i forgot i even had it on) & parents clutched thier children to them & muttered things to them & made the sign of the cross (lol)
~i was told that i would burn in hell, and they have the matches to start the fire
~i was told after i actually tripped & fell into a campfire (ironic, huh? lol) & got 2nd degree burns on 15% of my body that i deserved it & that was my "glimpse" of hell & my chance to "change my ways"
man, fundies are great! lol...
2007-10-09 10:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-08 22:08:43 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually have more trouble and snark from other pagans than CHristians of any sort. We are our own worst enemies as a community.
2007-10-10 06:34:32 · answer #6 · answered by Lupa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a student accuse me of working witchcraft against the class in college that I taught. The really bizarre part of it was that he described my "witchcraft" in detail, and it was just me talking normal about comparative religion.
He also accused the school of being deceptive by entitling my class Religion in America. He didn't expect for it to teach "all religions."
2007-10-09 09:58:59 · answer #7 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
not randomly, well i've had people see a drawing of a pentacle on my notebooks and starting the whole 'satans sign' stuff.... but once i took it personally and started throwing facts at them and getting a little defensive they suddenly drew back and were like 'o i kno i kno' blah blah blah... lol it was kinda funny...
2007-10-09 09:57:47 · answer #8 · answered by paint_it_black1321 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My cousin told me it was a phase and people who were witches were just kids whose parents didn't love them as a child.
Then he realized he meant his own aunt and uncle and he started back peddaling. It really was hilarious.
2007-10-09 12:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in the Baptist Church.Is that not horror enough?
2007-10-09 10:03:52 · answer #10 · answered by bryanccfshr 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋