Would you be cool with Hillary's faith if she was a Satanist?

[moriah]

49. Some people get off on the "edgy" thing. Of course, the same thing can be said about witchcraft.

I'm not going to deny that part of the appeal when I was learning about this new religion called Wicca was that it was unique, and different, and I liked being both. There were, of course, also aspects of the religion that spoke to me, so the two in combination made me at first want to be very "out" about my newfound faith (except to my very Baptist grandmother).

After a boss searched my cubicle looking for voodoo dolls of her after learning I considered myself to be a witch, I decided perhaps it was best to back it down a notch. I wear no jewelry that readily identifies me as Pagan or Wiccan, because a star in a circle freaks a lot of people out down here in the South. I don't advertise it that often because people either freak out or get all "woo" with me and want to know all about it and if I really have any Seekrit Magickal Powerz. I practice primarily with people I've known for a decade or more.

Just like my religion started with a dirty old man wanting to chase after naked women under the moonlight with a whip in hand and then screw them, so he made a religion so he could (fortunately one of those women turned it into a religion actually worth following, and no you aren't going to find ritual sex or scourgings, or even much nakedness under the moon, in the vast majority of modern Wiccan Circles) -- religions become more than their founders started with, even in a short amount of time.