I got to thinking earlier about the various dogmas and beliefs held by other faiths. One of them I had personal experience with in 2006 when my ex-roommate informed me that I had to move out of the house we were sharing.

My ex-roommate is Mormon and while I don’t agree with their beliefs about God and Christ and Joseph Smith and the like, I did not have a problem with her being Mormon. However, she informed me that she was afraid of offending me by reading her Book of Mormon, saying her prayers, etc. What offended me was actually her assumption that it would bother me. I used to be Mormon. I know what they like to have their members do on a daily basis. It really doesn’t bother me.

However, I took a large exception to Church officials having told her that the spirit of Christ would not enter our house because I am Wiccan. They made it very clear to her that as long as I was in the home, Christ would not enter her home.

Frankly, that is a load of crap. Christ comes into the hearts and homes of anyone who wants him there. If she’d had true faith in Him, He would have come into our  home regardless of who I believed in or worshipped. Simply because my choice of deities and worship do not reflect hers is no reason that Christ would not come into our home. That would mean that for the sins of one, Christ would abandon another, and that is not how I was taught that Christ is when I was a Christian.

Also there is this crazy belief that you MUST gather together at some specific time to worship deity. Why? Deity is everywhere, every day. There is no real need for a large gathering on a specific day of the week to worship deity. I guess I will never understand why it is that people believe that you have to worship in groups in order to worship properly. I can worship my deities just find on my own, without needing to have a group around me or needing to go to a specified place.

Just a few thoughts I’d had earlier.

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