Baptisim......did that get your attention :D

[Raynewitch]

Ok, on Sunday I went to a Baptism....it freaked me out completely with all the standing, singing and praying. I had my Moon necklace on and held that whenever I got a bit freaked out by waht was going on around me lol. I was waiting for the Pastor to walk past me and scream "Shes a witch! We must burn her!!!", which obviously didnt happen. I had the weirdest feeling that he knew though. When he was introduced to me he completely stopped, and looked me deep in the eyes and just held my vision for about 30 seconds before either of us said anything. He then let go of my hands and gave me a strange look. Or maybe I am paranoid...its not like I was wearing anything to show them I am Wiccan, I had my necklace under my clothes at the time. Has this happened to anyone else?

Rayne

[slvr_phoenix]

Um, no. Not to me anyway. ;)

I've even semi-recently been to a cousin's christening / baptism / dedication. (It's a long story explaining why it isn't just one of those things.) The priest was a pretty cool guy. Everyone had fun. **shrug** No weird vibes for a Wiccan like me.

In fact, the only thing through it that bugged me was the hypocracy of the parents and of everyone standing around pledging their lives to beinging up my cousin in the path of God and all that. Like ANY one of them is in ANY way religious. It made me nauseous to hear everyone commiting themselves to thinks that I KNOW not even 5% of them will do. They could have just done what I did which was stand there offering my support but not saying anything that I wasn't going to do.

But anyway, I digress. In short, I've never felt uncomfortable around Christians, churches, priests, or anything, and I'm really not sure why anyone would or should.

[Raynewitch]

Generally Im not too bad...unless I get near a Church or whatever....and Im pretty paranoid when I go in there which makes me act weird (well more weird than usual..), which of course makes people look at me....

I gotta work on that... :sunny:

Rayne

[Wiccan Maeve]

I know how you feel when it comes to being in a church. I've always felt wierd in churches, even before I wandered on to my pagan path. I recently went to a wedding and boy was I glad when it was over. I stood there the entire time, silent as could be.

On the lighter side of things, my family is very Christian, yet they all know about my path and are very accepting of it. So of course during the wedding my family was joking that they didn't want to be standing next to me in case lightning struck.

Love & light,
HoneyDreads

[Rævyn Cigány]

I don't think I've ever had a bad experience like that...I was raised Catholic so almost everyone in the local parish knows me (however does not know that I have 'strayed fromt the flock') and something like that just doesn't faze me. I guess its a case of 'old habits die hard' when I walk into a church...I don't do all the things I used to as a practising Catholic but I'm not freaked out by it all....

BB

Rae )0(

[Myst]

Been to several weddings and a few funerals and I've never felt "wierd" in the church. We live in a tiny village and everyone knows me there and probably almost everyone knows I'm Pagan (news travels). Not many people are going to start a fight in the house of the Lord because you happen to wear a pentacle or a moon instead of a cross :) In my case I enter with the belief that this Christian Lord is a face of my Lord, I'm sure old Jehovah would not turn any of his children away if they wished to enter his home to celebrate or recognize eachother.

[loopy]

The only reason I've ever felt a little weird in a church was because I felt like people thought I was Christian, and in that sense I almost felt like I was betraying myself and should be waving a little flag that screamed, "Go Goddess Go!" I'm trying to get over that. I think I am, actually.

I went to a small church wedding in Canada last year, and the heat was so bad that it was all I really had time to think about, lol! :D

[Sequoia]

I still feel a little bit anxious when I'm in a church or at a christian (or any other religion besides pagan, though I havn't really been to any gatherings like that) gathering, where I'm about the only pagan. . .

It used to really freak me out having people talking to me about God and stuffs. . .until I said to myself "hey. I used to be on a friendship basis with their god. Just because I believe differently doesn't mean he's not cool god." I mean, heck, I occasionally say hello to him in prayers just as I would to any other god. So now it's not like "ooh they're trying to convert me to this god and uh gods why me?" it's more like "oh kewl, they're blessing me in the name of their god? that's awesome. I can always use having gods like me" hehe. I see it as having one more god like me, not being flighty between faiths.