I empathise a lot with your sentiments here. It bugs me to no end too. My mother was the first example I ever encountered as a "Christian witch" although I don't think she ever considered herself a witch. She told me in my later teen years that she was part of a coven that practised witchcraft, but I got the impression it was magick only, i.e., spells, and not actually subscribing to any particular belief system. Mom was always a Christian even though she never went to church. And I couldn't understand it because Christianity and witchcraft didn't go together.
A later experience in an occult shop in Philadelphia was even stranger because it had Bibles and crucifixes and all the Christian paraphenalia right next to books of spells, voodoo dolls, pentacles, spell kits, etc. I didn't get it.
I have found tolerance. I don't judge or pretend to understand, I simply tolerate. Tolerance should not be viewed as acceptance though. When I first heard the term Christian Wicca, I thought, "Ye gads, Gardner must be rolling in his grave." I still think that. And yet, people are actually subscribing to it. WTF!? Ok, if it's floating your boat, but I will never understand.
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Date: 2009-05-18 08:32 am (UTC)A later experience in an occult shop in Philadelphia was even stranger because it had Bibles and crucifixes and all the Christian paraphenalia right next to books of spells, voodoo dolls, pentacles, spell kits, etc. I didn't get it.
I have found tolerance. I don't judge or pretend to understand, I simply tolerate. Tolerance should not be viewed as acceptance though. When I first heard the term Christian Wicca, I thought, "Ye gads, Gardner must be rolling in his grave." I still think that. And yet, people are actually subscribing to it. WTF!? Ok, if it's floating your boat, but I will never understand.