Are You A Recovering Christian? Plus my interview with Jesus Christ.
made the tree, couldn't God be part of the tree?
As I became an adult and able to make my own choices about church, I decided I had enough of their hate and terror; I wasn't going back. But I was left with a void. I felt I had abandoned God who in turn abandoned me and that I was going straight to hell. Every night I feared the rapture as I had done as a child. I needed a spiritual connection that didn't involved hate or fear.
Looking around I discovered Wicca and New Age. This fit me! As I studied more, I felt more at peace, more calm, and more like I had come home. Life began to make sense for me. Explanations that the Christian church said were Satanic had a real, and loving explanation. Well being told as a child that anything New Age, and definately Wicca was a form of Satanism I had to deal with the wrath of God and Jesus.
I took time alone and just walked. I marveled at the trees, streams, rocks and everything in it. Being from southern California trees and woods are something you see in paintings and on TV, seeing them in real life was almost a miracle unto itself. I told Jesus how I felt about growing up in an environment based upon hate and fear. He agreed that it wasn't right.
I said that those well-meaning Christians seemed to have the whole Jesus Loves you concept backwards. He said they do.
I told him those people frighten me, and that the quote, "I don't mind Jesus. It's his fan club I can't stand." was very apt. He said they frighten him too, and that quote couldn't be more right.
I asked why did he allow them to use his name and his image and the whole concept of him and God in such a hateful and skewed manner? For the same reason that you're questioning the faith and seeking a new spiritual path. Free will.
Do you really hate paganism, Wicca, and New Age? No, not at all. It is the one of the oldest religions, wonderful things happen and it fits many people. It's a path based upon Love.
So why start your own religious movement if paganism was okay? I didn't. Other started it for me. I was really trying to get the Jewish priests to treat people better and things
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