Or being associated with Wicca. People who are Wiccan often don't do their research on various historical references, or make up entirely new mythos and claim it's the original. I'm not overly fond of "neo-pagans" in general (except when they're actually trying to re-create it and class themselves as that anyway, bit odd but meh). The amount of crap I've heard spouted by these people is ridiculous, including trying to rewrite Set as Satan, saying Wicca is "good", "pure" and "light-based", to which I will reply stop bringing your good and evil crap from the Bible over, and the "Witch's" Rede, is a loada rubbish, about "that what you send out returns upon you threefold" Fuck off, no it doesn't. Common sense tells you that. Saying Anubis is the king of the underworld is another annoyance, when HE'S NOT, HE GUIDES PEOPLE WITH HORUS AND JUDGES HEARTS AND IS GOD OF EMBALMING AND TRAVEL (amongst other things) OSIRIS is the king of the afterlife.
Also, being anti-every-other-effing religion-apart-from-atheism is ridiculous, when if you were truly some "enlightened" individual, you could pray anywhere, yes anywhere, in a church, in a mosque, in a synagogue, in a Hindu temple. etc, adopting whatever customs for the praying as the path to god may vary BUT IT'S THE SAME GOD. I am sick to death of seeing car signs about "Oh, my gods out number your God" SO WHAT? If you understood anything about the ancient religions you're butchering, you'd understand that most of these religions have one God who created everything, and many gods who aid humans day to day, usually created by this creator God, equivalent to the one God, many angels system seen in the three Abrahamic religions.
All of this is basically why I don't share my beliefs in the gods with anyone, because they will immediately launch off into rubbish they've heard somewhere or do the opposite and think I'm crazy for believing I can change the world with my mind and magick. Nor do I like referring to myself as pagan or witch anymore. Witch should be a word that evokes power, whether fear, curiosity, pride or anger. Now it's just an embarassment. I feel like I'm associating myself with thirteen year olds who know nothing and aren't trying to correct that, just want to threaten some girl at school with hexes. I'm half tempted to use the word sorceress, priestess, even mage, wizard or summoner. By the gods, even geomancer is sounding better (no offence to geomancers, just it sounds like a job from Final Fantasy).
I tell you what, I'd be a lot more tolerant if I could watch a YouTube video of "pagan" music and actually be able to read the comments. I don't anymore, because all the rubbish spouted on there does my head in, with them all shoving their opinions down each other's throats, whereas I'm safe on here because you lot only read this if you click on the link and want to read it. /rant
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