...when you say that you are an atheist.
I used to practice wicca with my friends right when I started hanging out with my best friend again back in 2003-2004. It amused me, and it was my last attempt at bothering with religion.
I always felt like a fraud. I didn't believe in it.
I realized just how much I didn't believe when I got a jury selection statistical survey in the mail and I baulked at having to say that I had a religion.
So I told them and I stopped. My best friend has given me s**t for it off and on through the years since, trying to guilt me into it unsuccessfully.
It was my friend Heather's birthday on Monday. We were all at a bar.Well we're all out there in a circle. They're all talking about getting a coven together and having a meeting and blah blah blah. My best friend casually brings up that I no longer practice wicca, that I'm an ...atheist now.
One of the guys there looked like someone had kicked his puppy in front of him.
WTF. I've been atheist long before he ever knew me. He was all like, "I respect your descision, but after all you've been taught over the years..."
I don't remember what he said after that. I stopped listening, and just smiled and shrugged.
What is he talking about? I practiced wicca in a group, not even a dedicated coven for about one year before calling it quits. I read half a book in highschool and thought, "OH COOL. I WANT TO WEAR A PENTICLE!"
Tell me how that falls into 'years.'
Later he said something along the same lines and added that he thought I needed to do some soul searching. I just shook my head no. WTF. I've been at this point in my life longer than he's known me.
I don't know how this is discussion based, but meh. I had to write it somewhere people would care.
I used to practice wicca with my friends right when I started hanging out with my best friend again back in 2003-2004. It amused me, and it was my last attempt at bothering with religion.
I always felt like a fraud. I didn't believe in it.
I realized just how much I didn't believe when I got a jury selection statistical survey in the mail and I baulked at having to say that I had a religion.
So I told them and I stopped. My best friend has given me s**t for it off and on through the years since, trying to guilt me into it unsuccessfully.
It was my friend Heather's birthday on Monday. We were all at a bar.Well we're all out there in a circle. They're all talking about getting a coven together and having a meeting and blah blah blah. My best friend casually brings up that I no longer practice wicca, that I'm an ...atheist now.
One of the guys there looked like someone had kicked his puppy in front of him.
WTF. I've been atheist long before he ever knew me. He was all like, "I respect your descision, but after all you've been taught over the years..."
I don't remember what he said after that. I stopped listening, and just smiled and shrugged.
What is he talking about? I practiced wicca in a group, not even a dedicated coven for about one year before calling it quits. I read half a book in highschool and thought, "OH COOL. I WANT TO WEAR A PENTICLE!"
Tell me how that falls into 'years.'
Later he said something along the same lines and added that he thought I needed to do some soul searching. I just shook my head no. WTF. I've been at this point in my life longer than he's known me.
I don't know how this is discussion based, but meh. I had to write it somewhere people would care.