Anyone here once practice Wicca/Paganism but convereted to Christianity?

[wintermagick]

I know there is already the Christians on MW thread but...

I'm wondering, just to satisfy my own curiosities, if any regulars (or non-regulars too!) here on MW walked a Pagan path for a while but then ended up unexpectedly growing spritually in the direction of Christianity. If so I'd just like to hear your stories and experiences!

I grew up in a Christian environment like most. Eight years ago I started out on the Wiccan path and it was the perfect fit for the first three years. The next five years... not so much. My experience has been about five years of constant path bouncing, and I've bounced to Christianity several times (it always lasted two weeks at most). But I did a recent bounce a couple of months ago and this time it seems to be sticking for the most part. (But I'm still a very cool and liberal person...at least I think so). :lol:

Because of this I'm wondering if there are any others like me here.

[LightDancer]

Me, Me!

But you already know my story from GCM:hehehehe:

Just letting you know your not the only one on this particular bulletin board:)

Jamie

[wintermagick]

Me, Me!

But you already know my story from GCM:hehehehe:

Just letting you know your not the only one on this particular bulletin board:)

Jamie

*HUGS* Of course! I'd forgotten you were here too! And yeah... I love this forum... just because I've had a path change doesn't mean I have to go bye-bye! So glad to see you! I still need to PM you back over at GCM... I've been bad...

:dancy: _cloud9_ :heartthro _pounce_

[LightDancer]

*HUGS* Of course! I'd forgotten you were here too! And yeah... I love this forum... just because I've had a path change doesn't mean I have to go bye-bye! So glad to see you! I still need to PM you back over at GCM... I've been bad...

:dancy: _cloud9_ :heartthro _pounce_

np...I do it all the time....I'm far to good at procrastinating:hehehehe:

I totally could never leave this board, the people here are awesome!:huddle:

Jamie

[LightDancer]

*crickets chirping*

Looks like we're the only Pagan->Christian converts here, or maybe we're just the most vocal ones....lol

Jamie

[wintermagick]

*crickets chirping*

Looks like we're the only Pagan->Christian converts here, or maybe we're just the most vocal ones....lol

Jamie

Right! :lol: I had that same thought too.

[Athene]

What 'bounced' you out of Christianity each time?

[wintermagick]

What 'bounced' you out of Christianity each time?

Easy answer... Pagans are usually much more tolerant and understanding people, and I have lots of Pagan friends (and a bit of Pagan family) that I gel well with and dearly love. Generally these are the only people I feel "at home" with. But the spirituality of Paganism, while beautiful, has been feeling not as real to me as it once did.

[Ninjakitten]

Wasn't really pagan, but I was a theist (believed there was a divine somethingarather and we couldn't understand it so why do anything about it). I also didn't look too kindly on Christianity (gotta love a strictly liberal education) because those Christians, if they had their way, cause Inquisitions and Crusades and burn people at the stake. I didn't even know what the death on the cross meant. Then Godde kind of approached me literally and told me that I needed to seek knowledge of Him (masculine voice) through the one place I was unwilling to look (that would be Christianity).

[AletheiaRivers]

I'm so bouncy my butt is permanently bruised. :boing:

I was raised agnostic, became eclectically pagan around the age of 18, converted to Christianity (because of a dream) when I was 20, and left that particular Christian path 10 years later.

I did research into the philosophy of religion and considered myself an atheist for a very short while. I looked into Hinduism and Buddhism and paganism (again). Around December of 2004 I found my way to a liberal form of Christianity, which, while intellectually stimulating, hasn't touched my soul (although the "Logos" has).

I'm investigating Druidry as a philosophical view and spiritual path because of the synchretism that is allowed (and encouraged) in many of the major branches.

So, currently, I consider myself a Christo-pagan (with perhaps more emphasis on the pagan part). Who knows what the next year will hold? :hahugh:

<edited my stupid spelling mistakes>

[Eryck]

It facinates me to read how folks wind up where they are at. To wrestle with which Path is the "right" one....well....this is something that I have been battling my whole life as well. I started out worshipping the Roman Gods as a youth, dabbled briefly in devil worship as a teen (without understanding any of it), converted to the Catholic church in junior high, became a sort of non-practising "jack" Catholic, developed my empathic and auric abilities and took on some Pagan traits (without even realizing it 8O ), and now I am much more a Pagan with some Christian tendencies in there somewhere. Ultimately, I think I want what anyone would want for themselves-to know that the Path I walk is the "correct" path. Even though I am more comfortable with some things, I still just "want to be sure". But I am all but completely convinced that being a full-on Christian is not the Path for me. Not that there's anything wrong with it-but just that my time there is done-and Spirit tells me it is now time to grow in another direction.

[wintermagick]

Yup. In reading all of the signs (and still not feeling true to myself) it looks like I am back to path bouncing.

:boing:

My "butt hurts from all the bouncing".

[Rhisiart]

Just wondering, and Im getting ready to sign off for the night...but if you do so much bouncing, anyone, why not take what you believe and make your own path? Why do you HAVE to follow ANY specific path? My beliefs are a mixture of many, though most tend to gel with the moral aspects and not the supernatural. I have my own path..Im a Pantheistic Taoist Chaote...not the least bit confusing to me! Just wondering! Night all! er morning I mean! lol

[wintermagick]

Just wondering, and Im getting ready to sign off for the night...but if you do so much bouncing, anyone, why not take what you believe and make your own path? Why do you HAVE to follow ANY specific path? My beliefs are a mixture of many, though most tend to gel with the moral aspects and not the supernatural. I have my own path..Im a Pantheistic Taoist Chaote...not the least bit confusing to me! Just wondering! Night all! er morning I mean! lol

Great question that I wish I had the answer to. Maybe that's just too easy! :lol:

[Eryck]

Great question that I wish I had the answer to. Maybe that's just too easy! :lol:

I once read in a Pagan book that one of the problems with conventional religions is that they tend to be of the "heat-and-eat" variety, which means that you come into them with everything all laid out neatly for you. You simply adopt the rituals/beliefs/viewpoints as your own, and you don't have to lift a finger. This is not to say that this is necessarily a bad thing-in fact-it often times allows people to come into a life of spirituality easier. But the thing about Paganism that appeals to me is the fact that it is something that you really have to work at and own as yours. You reap the benefits of the work, and you accept full responsibility for your pitfalls.

It is because of this that I now feel even more accountable for my actions as a Pagan than I ever did as a Christian. Because now it really feels as though everything I do will come back to me, instead of simply being able to ask forgiveness from God. In this way-I am accepting that any wrongdoings are my own fault.

Again-I'm not saying that I think Christianity is a bad thing. In fact-I still have many of the Churches teachings in my own spiritual framework. I'm simply stating one reason why Paganism makes so much sense to me.