Since I love Faeries.

I was checking out this article about America’s religions and frankly, it bothered me that they focused pretty much on Christian or Christ-based faiths, and didn’t really look at the whole picture.

To be perfectly blunt, what about us? What about those of us who are Buddhist, Muslim, Shinto, Wiccan, Pagan, etc? What about those of us who are not part of a God & Christ or God & yet-to-come savior based faith? I don’t see how you can say that Americans are tolerant of religions when I know quite a few Wiccans and Pagans who are so careful about who knows that they are Pagan/Wiccan. Truth be told, I haven’t experienced any problems myself, but I do know that some people have.

Americans are tolerant of religions – as long as they, in some way, resemble their own religion. If it doesn’t, as is the case with Buddhism and Wicca, then there’s a problem. Being tolerant of religions is being tolerant of ALL religions, not just the ones you agree with. There are many different “flavors” of Christianity, I’m sorry to say but frankly, being tolerant of other Christian faiths doesn’t make you tolerant of other religions. Being tolerant of non-Christian faiths as well as Christian faiths makes you tolerant of other religions.

There are times, like right now, that I feel like my spiritual side is lacking. Like I haven’t been doing what I need to be doing in order to feel connected. And it’s true. I haven’t. I haven’t been doing any of the things I should be doing. I haven’t been doing my Tarot readings. I haven’t been keeping up with full moon and Sabbat rituals. I haven’t been spending any time daily with Goddess and God. I’ve been lacking and for this I am truly sorry. Tonight I intend to make changes to that.

For starters, I intend to begin reading the Witta book and learning from it. Learning about the various traditions of the Goddess’ worship and the Craft have always made me feel closer to Her. So I will begin making my way back to Her and my spiritual side by starting to read that book. I am also going to start doing my daily Tarot readings again. Just a couple of small steps, but necessary ones in my opinion.