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why do Christians hate people that practice witchcraft?
Okay...so I am a practicing hedge witch. I am not a satanist, niether do I hurt anyone, controll anyone, make poisons, sacrifice goats or do anything to harm anything or anyone...infact I do quite the oposite..I make home made remedies from herbs ect, to help peoples illnesses and beauty problems, I help as much wildlife as I can (I have had multiple resued wildlife from crows with broken wings to a snail with a broken shell.) I'm just a genuinely peacefull person who goes out of their way to help anything or anyone. So why, do i get so much abuse from christians? I've done nothing wrong towards them at all...I thaught it was suposed to be a peacefull religion that respects everyone and every living thing yet they abuse people who do a better job at meating ther religions teachings than what they do...and im not even close to a christian...
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Do they hate you because you have declared your status as a witch? You seem to be a compaasionate person.Herbal remedies may not work and at times can act as emetics or purgatives.This way you can get into trouble.Don't antagonize these "fixed notion" people .
Do not care about people who hate you as no religion preaches hate so they are not what they claim they are.
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I chose as a teen to become a Christian. While in the church, I chose to actually believe and work towards being able to hear from God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They all talked about being able to hear from God and have a personal relationship and also to teach that certain things were taboo and evil. I realized how wrong they were when after seeing a naturopath dr. which they do support, and that Dr. suggested I see an acupuncturist who ended up being a very spiritual person, but when Christians learned I'd been to see one, I told told I'd need cleansing and must stop going to one as acupuncturist are evil and of the devil. I kinda knew something was really 'Off' long before that but it hadn't personally affected me until then. Thats when I realized that many, not all Christians were blindly believing whatever they were taught and told especially from pastors on up such as what they paid good money to be taught in colleges of divinity to become church pastors, assuming that since it came from a recognized established Christian college that it must all be true. Very few people in the church exercise their own brain to think for themselves, taking the easy way out of choosing to believe what they are told and yet feel they are doing the right thing. We were warned not to read other religious books or manuels. I thought because it was to protect us from satanic attack when the only purpose was to keep us unenlightened.
Despite that all, the Holy Spirit worked diligently with me in the church setting to prepare me for a spirit path that led out of the church to my first experience with other people who were spiritual and that would be the pagans, wiccans, witches, solitarys and druids.
Now a Christian would simply state that the devil got a hold of me somehow. I know deep down inside that it isn't so for it has been the working of the Holy Spirit within me working with me for about 30 yrs of life from age 16 on until I got to the point of really recognizing the H.S. and trusting it explicitly. If you are interested I;d be glad to share some of those stories.
During the last couple of those 30 yrs when the HS knew I was ready, I was led to books in bookstores that I wasn't looking for but had stories of Christian psychics, Christians who'd died and come back to life and while dead saw many in heaven who had been from all the religions that supposedly don't get into heaven, and many other such things. I wasn't looking and didn't believe in Spirit guides but when it happened to me, it was in a way that I could not refute as a coincidence and I asked the H.S. about it and was reassured it was for real but to go ahead and give them a test to prove it, not for them but for me and my stipulations of the test were met. (Another interesting story) And then came the day the H.S. asked if I would believe if it told me Reincarnation is real. That was the final puzzle piece that shook my world. I hadn't felt I belonged any longer in the church. It was a chore to listen to sermons that seemed to me to be the ' baby food' a bible verse warns believers to stop feeding upon. So I stopped attending and soon met some pagans thru a nudist group and soon knew many of the pagans in my area thru city wide organized get togethers. An eye opener to learn that Christianity got many of its rituals and Holy days from the pagan belief system to long ago make Christianity seem more palatable to non christians so they might be more apt to make the switch over. I read a book of Christianity and paganism being sister religions. And here I am today, able to know that indeed as a Hedgewitch or greenwitch is the other name, that you are not a satanist as pagans don't believe in the Devil or hell or that Jesus died for our sins. We may believe Jesus does exist and some may believe He is god. I've run into Christian-pagans. I still had some unanswered questions in my mind and was then introduced to the Urantia book by my new husband. That answered the few things I still pondered about. As you can see, it takes a willingness to really trust that which one sees as deity, be it Goddess (which i beleive is one and the same as the Holy Spirit) or God by any other name. All religions and believes have at least a nugget or a bigger piece of the truth but all also have their misconceptions. It takes having an open mind and being willing to use ones own mind along with trusting God to lead them correctly that a Christian can make such a big change to come to understand who and what witches or pagans are. I have seen more success in healing within the pagan community after being on prayer teams at church. I guess is Christians believe that in some cases, God wants a person to suffer for some reason and that it must be Gods will and that negative belief is what stops the healing energy from flowin thru us as it did with Jesus. It also takes the person in need believing too that they deserve healing as much as anyone else. It doesnt come from the devil but rather from human vessels unblocked by negative thoughts thru which the healing from the universe/our creator can flow. I started with Reiki but even that for healing was too much structure and the Goddess told me to trust her in what I did. When I concentrate, I have my own images in my mind I visualize or draw with my hands to help the same as any items used in a witches rituals or what one might call it spell. Christians have their own rituals and dont realize it. Prayer and laying on of hands or annointing a person in prayer etc. is ritual.
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ok lets get straight to the point, in the bible witchcraft is forbidden and evil. the only healer is god the only savior is god, so if your doing these things basically they believe your doing it with satans help, which is true god wouldn't give you that power because he created everyone equal and in the bible god people was told to not take part in the evil works. if you believe in god you should look into it if not,,, do you
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Most religions have some way of dehumanizing, or demonizing and judging those who don't follow them. Historically, pagans and the early traditions that modern Wicca evolved from treated other pagans pretty poorly too! It's not like everyone who wasn't Christian was getting along with one another! They were also waging stupid bloody wars, raping and killing, and invoking whichever god they liked while they did it.
The idea, "Hey, lets not kill people who aren't like us." is a relatively new one, not just for Christians, but for humanity in general.
So Christianity is not unique is awfulness to those who are not Christian, it's just the most common religion in Western history so it's the easy one to see when it's being awful.
There are many books you can read on the historical, political and economic reasons that Christianity engaged in a deliberate effort to demonize witches. The early Christian church engaged in a very deliberate PR war against the native, pagan religions of the areas it tired - and usually successfully at that - to take over. Many of those same stories that were told a thousand years ago about witches, are still believed by some Christians today. There is a rich history of Christianity being used to justify really dickish behaviour - and that continues to this day.
You can learn the history, and the reasons that these myths and beliefs persist, but you probably wont be able to get into an individual Christian's head and figure out why they are a dick. Some people are just dicks.
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