"If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town" That's from Luke chapter 9.
Why do xtians always feel that because I'm a pagan, I'm obviously miserable and searching, waiting for some kindly follower of christ to come along and save me. And that I'll be kissing their feet in gratitude when they show me how awful and hollow my pagan lifestyle is in comparison to theirs? And they have a mandate from god to stand in my face and save me til one of us drops.
Honestly, if you're a xtian, I'll tell you what I've told every single other one who has ever had this misguided notion. I absolve you of your responsibility to save me. I don't need to be saved. I don't WANT to be saved. I'm not miserable, I'm not searching...I'm not lost. Trust me. I spent the first 13 years of my life in the xtian church. That's when I was miserable and searching and in need of saving. That's when my soul felt empty, alone, disconnected from everything and everyone. It wasn't until I LEFT the xtian church that I started to find my way. I've been on a long, exhaustive journey to get where I am. From agnostic to Buddhist to Taoist to just open to the universe. And when I opened my heart, mind and soul to the universe, the path unfolded before me and I found Wicca. And I am at peace at last with my spirituality. I have a deeper connection and relationship with deity now than I ever knew in the xtian church. I am happy, I am content with the path I'm on.
So if you're tempted to leave a comment, as someone did today in another section, about how you're praying for me to find my way back to the one true god or other similar nonsense... Please don't. I don't welcome it. Just move on and shake the dust of my blog from your feet. Peddle your snake oil somewhere else.
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