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  • The sight of a crucifix made you want to hit something? Maybe you are possessed by a demon?

    Just kidding:))

    Not only are Christians ignorant about others beliefs they are ignorant of their OWN. Face it, most Christians are just not that intelligent, period!

    As time goes on, Wicca will gain the respect it deserves. You're right, Wiccans need to mindful of the manner in which they respond to the denigrating attacks of ignorant ppl; else, they (Wiccans) look ignorant themselves.

  • i would imagine that salem is more of an attraction unless you live there of course. like whitby here in the uk around halloween time.

    its quite interesting that alot of videos tend to come from americans who are quite territorial about their religion. here in the uk faith and religion isnt really a huge thing for the majority - pagans tend to be laughed at rather than 'shunned'. cant we let ignorant people be and focus on our paths? introspect and reflect it helps you find your true self.

  • Hi Steve :) The reason for that is because America (the non-Native aspect anyway) was founded by English Puritans. It seems all your religious types came here to my people's land and did what you all knew was going to cause a problem.

  • Good on you for posting this video, this is where I was before I read some Hitchens books and I'm all better now. Many Wiccans are just generally FUBAR and intelligent people who get into it are eaten alive. Good luck to you in your path.

  • My experience with Wiccans has always been that they tend to be social outcasts who choose Wicca not as a true path of enlightenment, but because they have a common ground with other outcasts and weridos. Wiccans are very different from other true "Pagans" who practice the religion of their ancestors. Wiccans have no ancestoral connection to the past. It is just a New Age mishmash focussed on the more feminine aspects of ancient religions.

  • Lets start here, your co-workers treat you good because they believe you have lost your way and they have petty on you! Do not mistaken acceptance for petty! Christianity is a Catch-22! They can not believe thus they can not understand!

    L Ron Hubbard is Scientology, not Wiccan!

    Right, money is power, thats why Christianity main drive is gain of wealth and control!

    All in all a good speech!

    One of the biggest differences between Christianity and Wiccan is fear and understanding.

  • Great video. Thank you!

  • It does shed some light on the newest issue doesn't it? Now you have Pagans all over the Tube shouting, Help help the Christians are attacking us now and we need to fight back.

    LOL. 0_- Why don't I feel simpathy for the issue?

    You're definately someone who should be leading these lost and childish pagans.

  • Well said, and I agree that there are times when people can take things to such a level that it gets out of control. It can lead to just having this frustration to one guy, and then explode to blaming Christians, for example, as a whole. I've come to YouTube to reach out to people I respect, and I've been accused of being a closed-minded Christian by a woman who I still like, even now. She's blocked me and won't hear me, and I admit I was bothered me that she jumped on the blame-train so blindly

  • Really awsome video.)O(.

  • Well said. Well done. Bravo.

  • i love your speach! your right about every thing! im a new wiccan in a cristion family and they are not telling me whats wrong and im glad they let me believe what i want.

    sorry about my spelling errors.

  • Do you personally believe that the Burning Times are an actual account of persecutions of Pagans and Witches?

    I've studied history for a long time, and the Victims we're Jews, Muslims, Prodestants and the typical village midwife/crone. I never really found accounts of Pagans during the inquesition.

  • considered "new age" following old beliefs.. ha

  • Well done, and well said.

  • i just wanted to thank you for this video. as a witch myself i truly agree with pretty much everything you've said and seeing your video comforted me by not making me feel like the only one anymore. in fact just as we have strong rules against proselytizing we also must let others believe what they believe, & i become infuriated when i hear other witches bash Christianity. thank you again.

  • The store where I worked was picketed by Fundies because the Owner was a Hindu who had Shiva as a patron. They would come into the store and harass us and preach to us because she was a Hindu.

  • great video, I think it's ridiculous the amount of discrimination going around everywhere. I'm evidently wiccan lol but my family are all different branches of christians so i'm very respectful to them i just make it clear that i don't believe what they do and ask them not to push it on me. I agree people "slip up" for better words, on what they believe and think they know about other groups of people. But that is completely different from knowingly firing someone over religion or anything else

  • Right on sister, totally agreed! Someone has to stop the hate. Why don't we?

  • thank you very much!! your video was spot on!! please my fellow wiccans listen to her advice....dont fight fire w fire..kill em with kindness thats what we in our coven do..its much more funny to watch them squirm when they see they cant get under your skin...it gives you back the power!!

  • Cont.

    Truth be said, I dont feel Following the Roman Catholic church is the Way for me...

    No Disrespect towards the Christian/Catholic community...

    However others see me is their own thing.

    I treat others the way Id like to be treated. I am a fair minded individual and dont like to hurt others.

    But i also dont allow others to walk all over me either...

    Anywho, Thanks for this Vlog..

    I enjoyed it~

    )O( Jillywiccan )O(

  • I understand your point about Christians bashing the Wiccan/Pagan community and lashing it out on us..

    I myself was born and raised Catholic. However Its been 10 yrs now that I have been a practicing Solitary witch. My family and some friends dont understand it and some tell me im gonna rot in hell and stuff. They just dont understand. Honestly I have tried to express my views, and why I Have chosen my path instead of being Catholic...

    I dont know... I see it, to each his/her own really.

  • I agree with you completely on a lot of that, especially on the Christian bashing. Some Wiccans I know judge people and make assumption about them just because their Christians, that assumption being that the Christians are going to to the same thing to them. It's just hypocritical.

  • Don't get me wrong, I'm still a pretty Politically/Religiously angry individual, but I'm not as raging anymore, and when I do its only when I'm alone and it usually because I'm really board at the time. XD

  • Yeah, I hear you. You should have seen me in my highschool days, I was a total asshole to my Christian peers, and I wasn't even an actual practitoner then! XD But even after that calmed down, for a while I still used to pick politically religious arguments with people here online. But that's pretty much passed as well...

  • Why would u leave the most powerful being in the universe to worship his creation... i just don't get it.

  • yeah, it's a funny world, isn't it? Funny like people who are continually brainwashed by power-hungry preachers and are too scared of thinking for themselves, then they might realize all this time they've been lied to.

    I don't get it either.

  • Well said, all of it. Especially on Christians, though... I admit that I have many problems with them, most of it stemming from my involvement with a Mormon church a while back. Before that, everything between me and the Christianity was actually pretty peachy, now that I think of it...

  • Blessed be

    Not to be rude but I would like to know how long you have been practicing the craft

  • You have a really excellent point. There are people that do take things a bit over the top, but its wise not to spend the time and energy.. because your welcoming more in. That's very insightful.

  • Grovey pants@YOU

    Also, what's bullshit smell like? If ya can tell it from a mile away, what sets off those red flags?

  • I agree with your video. on spending alot of money on books and ect. i am wiccan i buy herbs but for spells i write my own. and tools for the craft i think people should make their own and it has their on energy

  • I hear ya on the books, I read Silver Ravenwolf, she's not horrible but she and alot of authors seem to write the same stuff over and over again.

  • What a great video! You are so intelligent and that is such a refreshing thing. I'm shocked how many people don't read or research what interests them, and then get on YouTube doing videos with little to no idea what they're really discussing. So nice to see your videos! Please post more.

  • very Well spoken I am so witha on this note, thnx for posting this video!!!

    Blessed be

  • Very well spoken.

  • Thank you so much for posting this. I completely agree. Every Wiccan out there needs to watch this video.

  • Hiya,I completely agree with the message in this video.. I am glad i happened upon it because i think your message is a great little wake up call to everyone,regaurdless of thier religon.Noone has any right to hate on another,We are all cosmically brother and sister.

    I am a Christian.But i do not nor would i ever condemn or treat ANYONE different.All are welcome at my table if they are good hearted folks.I really like your message :)

    Peace and love.

  • It's good to know there are Christians out there who ARE decent people, thank you :-)

  • maybe you could help explain the difference between wiccan / and goths. I find one type extremely sexy and the other "not so much" - just wardrobe wise- and music interest etc.

  • wicca is a religion/way of life, goth is a style of clothing based on rock/metal music...i dont understand why people think goth=wiccan

  • Goth is not a religion.

  • Great vid!!!

    )O(

  • I am one of the guilty party ranting and bitching about Kathy Lee. But your video made a lot of sense. I am so glad to have viewed this and it's now on my favorites. 5 star, my Witch sister!

    )O( Brightest Blessings!

  • Wonderful response to a person making a mistake. Maybe Katy Lee should have a chance to met well grounded folks with you and other Witches.

  • I totally agree w/ you. If I want to make a comment to someone who offends me by downtalking my practice, I don't attack them w/ name-calling,etc, just try to make an informative, civilized response. I am the only practicing wiccan in my life between friends/family, but they all accept me and NEVER make me feel displaced among them.P.S.., Salem rocks! I see what you mean though with merchandise, however, some people also like to help support fellow practicioners in business. Love ur vid!

  • At about 3:06 I found myself exclaiming, "Oh, right on! You are so awesome!"  I generally look at it as a measure of a pagan's maturity, the way they talk about Christians. I don't like being proselytized to either, and sometimes I'm in less of a mood for it than others, but not all Christians are bad folks.

  • Salem is a Disney land for Pagans not just Wiccans. :-)

    Anyway I agree with you 100% I see how Salme and Ms. Cabot is really making mega bucks on the naivety of newcommers. It's sad really.

  • i say do what you want but not hurt anyone. my husbands parents are christian and they know im a good person. i am wiccan. i dont care what religion ppl are, as long as it has good moral grounding.

  • Wicca is a fashion statement. Nobody knew about it until the first Blair Witch movie. Just a bunch of hipsters(hippies with money) that act like they're better that everyone else.

  • Officially Wicca has been around since the 1950's, but yeah, movies both helped and hurt us at the same time.

    Don't believe me? Look up Gerald Gardner and his crew, he first popularized the religion in England then eventually made it's way to the US.

  • I have been Pagan since 1988! Hmmm before the Blair Witch Heck even before the internet!!!!

  • I agree with you. why do all these so called wiccans and witches dignify the idoits in the world who post how bad we wiccans are with a rebuttle... No, no one wants an idiot to talk shit about them.. but you are givig the twits what they want a fight.. these idiots have nothing better to do then attack something they dont know anything about.. their looking for a fight .. and they get what they want.. a reaction.. a cussing and they get a kick out of it.. its like a high to them..

  • I love the vid it was helpful and i even agree with a little bit of every one hear ,. every one is right in there own way and i see every ones view point makes sence to me.

  • I agree with what you said, pretty much 100%. However - I do have a friend who has a metaphysical shop. She isn't in it just for the money. But obviously we all need to eat and have clothing. She gives a lot of things out for free, actually. She loves her Craft and enjoys sharing it with others, while making a modest living. I don't see what's wrong with that.

  • All belief systems are the same; intolerance towards other beliefs is their primary attribute. People choose to believe in things for comfort and provide a meaning to their existence.

  • I agree.

  • "I like to read just as much as anyone else but I can smell bullshit a mile away."

    I have never found someone I agree with so easily. And I know what you mean about the marketing thing, which is why for everyone other than Konstantinos I check very carefully to see if they do things like spelling the names of the Goddess wrong (Which another Pagan messaged me saying "u arent wicca u dont worship iniana") Which is one of the most ironic things I've heard.

  • LULZ. You can follow any patron that you would like. Just spell the name right. lol

  • Some less enlightened Wiccans do dislike christians- But the problem that I have more often run into is that a lot of christians assume that Wiccans hate or dislike them. Just recently, I was talking to someone about christians and they immediately assumed because I am Wiccan I was making an insulting comment. It's sad that as a minority, when one Wiccan says something wrong we have to correct them because we know assumtions will be made based on their words.

  • Merry Meet!

    Fundamentalist Christians in the USA are legally bound to not abuse you, or anyone else, while at work: it is against the terms of employment of almost all employers' code of employee behavior. I suspect your co-workers would cheerfully abuse you if they believed it would not adversely impact their employment.

    As for Wiccans being distrustful and critical of Christians, there is good cause for them to be so: the beast is still clawed and fanged, but the state curbs them.

    Blessed b

  • Yes! Well said and I know exactly how you feel. Goes to show that, realistically, Christians and Wiccans/Pagans/Witches are more alike than we'd like to think. We are all human. I'm relieved that you are NOT a fucking airhead. :) Love and Light! Blessed be!

  • Entertaining video actually. I love your attitude by the way. I did view the whole thing before commenting

    Danvers/Salem is a sight during Halloween. I got some incense from Laurie Cabot's shop back in the early 90s when I lived in southern NH and use to flirt with her daughter behind the counter

    Some people never realize the real power of magic, the energy comes from you The shaper of intent is you

    We come equipped with the senses needed to work with energy You dont need crystals and stuff

  • You were never Christian.

  • And neither are you.

  • i dont know why i find that so funny quan but the clever little comeback with shockawenow really made my day oh and wiccans were never hunted down wiccans werent around in the burning times

  • WICCANS weren't, this part is true, however WITCHES and PAGANS were.

  • not really know i cant tell you if a witch was burned alive since the term is so vague but im fairly certain they had an almost complete genocide against all the pagans in about 1500

  • According to my college history class it's actually quite likely SOME of the victims were real witches: Pagan clergy, tribal leaders and astrologers.

    Tarot cards, afterall, were invented in the middle ages.

  • yes some possibly in the northern countrys probably not england and the definition of what a witch is changes with time so some of them probably did fit the description but it wasnt an active move toward pagans it was an old superstition that the church suddenly decided to take seriously

  • "You were never Christian."

    Idiot.

  • "You were never Christian."

    I know I never was. Dad didn't want me baptized :-) I always found that to be fun.

    Only Catholics are actually Christians, anyway.

  • I have to say I agree with you on all your ponts actually. lol

    There is so much bad feeling and fighting going on in the You Tube Pagan community. Its so sad.

  • Had you bothered to watch the entire video, or any of my others, ho many teenagers do you know have been working int the hotel industry for 7 years? I shot this video out of my 2BR apartment which I share with my fiance on my only day off from work that week.

    I also have Christian friends and family, a few of them actually agree with me about the followers being jerks.

  • I always wanted to visit Salem, so much History they're(^^) btw why is your name Quan Yin? Out off all the Goddesses I love Quan Yin, she's the one I hold in Highest regard, I'm just curious, you don't have to answer. Blessed be.

  • She's also MY most regarded one. I'm also a fan of Kali, Hecate, Hachiman and Ganesha.

  • Ganesha is such a sweetheart and he has such a nice laugh.

  • Nice Job,I guess people act like this on the Internet because you can keep you're "true" Identity hidden, ie using the age on your profile to make you "older" so you can basicly make people think youre more mature. I have nothing against Christianity in general, it's the fallowers that abuse it and they're rights to hate, ie using freedom of speech and the Bible when insulting homosexuals. That I cant stand. I try not to get angry because my WHOLE family is Christian as well as 97% of my friends

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