What did your religion or influencers teach you about witchcraft? [Spirituality & Religion]

@th3r0n religious fascist

@lorne13 you know someone is ignorant when you state facts and they attack you.

@th3r0n Don't try to use words you clearly don't understand, like "facts."

@th3r0n Not really sure how what you said is a fact. Of course what you said is correct in your mind but nobody knows what's real. You or anyone that says that any religion is fact-based is lying and hypocritical. Religion is belief-based.

@gemimaia I don't want anything to do with religion ever, but the God who made the heavens and the earth sent his son and that same holy spirit is with me, and I have seen his power and know he is true. I also know the power in witchcraft is real, and that it is very evil.

@th3r0n What's evil about it? Have you seen or been a target of witchcraft?

@th3r0n Sorry, dude... that's religion. Words have meaning, and to abuse the mental gift of language like that is a direct insult to that creator god you're welcome to devote your life to. Not a personal judgement, just reason.

@gemimaia I've been around them, and I could feel the darkness. As to what's evil about it...turning to demons for power...is that hard to figure out...

@MissPriscillaPrim no, religion is a false word to start with.

@th3r0n Umm, turning to demons for power? Yeah that would make sense considering wiccans don't believe in demons.

@gemimaia which makes it far easier to deceive them...

@gemimaia well, that's debatable, as the original Greek word "daimon" meant a human state of inspiration like we say being "in good spirits." And the power-mad Christian patriarchs corrupted the word

@th3r0n Also most wiccans don't work with dark energy so I'm not sure where you got that from.

@gemimaia did you read anything I wrote at all???

@gemimaia they can call it white all day long, power from demons is not white

@th3r0n Please notice with what patience and tolerance gemimaia is treating you, contrasted with your judgemental obsession

@th3r0n with an attitude luke that youre certainly in no position to call anyone ignorant

@lorne13 the truth is not an attitude, and those who hate truth love ignorance.

@th3r0n Im reading it, it just isn't making any sense. You keep using the Bible and your beliefs to try to create "facts" to describe other religions. But I dont think you understand what energy or magick is in the slightest. Probably because you're conditioned to think they're wrong. Which is fine, believe what you want. But you are blurring the line between fact and opinion. That I don't like. I never said that Wicca, or Paganism, or any religion for that matter is right or wrong. I simply stated what they consist of. Facts about what they believe and practice. I never said if they were real or not. Guess why? Because there is absolutely no way of knowing. The god that you perceived may have just been a manifestation of the divine energy that exists in another plane of the universe. That energy can be perceived as anything. And will manifest as anything as long as you believe it.
I have no problem with Christians or people of Abrahamic faith until they start talking like you. I really encourage you to do some more research, books and articles, not the Holy Bible.

@MissPriscillaPrim you call it an obsession to tell people the truth about something that will pull them into hell? You seek damnation with a fervor rarely seen for anything.

@gemimaia perhaps the misunderstanding lies with the fact that everything you say about me is assumption from past experiences.

I'm not a man who would believe a book because I read it. I believe it because I know the author and there is no lie in him.

The conditioning you speak of wouldn't have worked on me, if I tried to find God and couldn't I wouldn't have stuck around.

Also, a manifestation of divine energy does not follow very specific ways written about in the bible. Every time I prayed and did not doubt, God brought amazing results, and when my faith fell short it was not the same.

God has worked miracles in me and through me, call me a liar if you will but accusing me of being indoctrinated and unable to think is highly irrational if you had known me at all.

@th3r0n I didn't doubt you felt something in your experiences, just doubted the assumptions that you made about them.

To say that all witchcraft is evil and demonic because of one experience you had is irrational.

And yes, I think that you are unable to think outside of what your religion has conditioned you to think. That is evident in all of your accusations. If you actually did any research or spoke to someone who follows those paths, you wouldn't have said the things you said about witchcraft because no one believes your statements to be true except for those who share your faith.

Once again, I never said that what you felt wasn't god or whatever, I just said that we can all interpret energy. I've felt positive and completely invigorating love and energy when I wasn't channeling "God". In fact back when I used to identify as Christian i felt much more dark energy surrounded by me.
I'm not saying that to rebuke what you believe is to be god, I'm saying that because the energy I felt told me that I wasn't in the right place. Like I said, energy is flexible, it will manifest as that which you believe, and that only which you truly believe. That in turn will help guide you to the right path. The light energy you feel can be interpreted differently by other people, because energy doesn't have one name and there isn't a right or wrong way to interpret energy. Only what's right and wrong for you. Some people do not belong on certain paths, and it's clear that you do not belong on the path I'm on, and vice versa. That is perfectly okay, in fact I think it is important that things are that way.

The Bible isn't fact, and the Bible is not the only code to live by. If it was, other religions wouldn't exist. If you don't think that's correct, then fine, but you need to realize that what you think is simply that, a thought. You are not a god, you can only control what happens in your own life, therefore you can only be right about what is valid in your own life. Regardless of what you believe, your belief will always just be that. A belief. And so will my beliefs. There is no fact.

@th3r0n how dare you take upon yourself the judgement of other souls which is exclusively reserved for the power of the god you worship, as your own scriptures repeatedly assert! I know whereof I speak, kid.

@gemimaia when you start questioning the existence of facts...I would think that would be a clue to you that you've been deceived...

@MissPriscillaPrim do you now? Then perhaps you can tell me whether we are meant to judge or not.