This is Me

This is me......I live in a small community in Northern Alberta, Canada and I love it here. The country side, the mountians, waterfalls, nature; it is perfect. I'm a 30 year old mother of 2 very lively, fun, albeit trying, children. I've been married going on 9 years now to my wonderful hubby; who is Agnostic (but he's more Wiccan than he likes to think) :o). I am one member of 14 on The Celtic Connection Council of Elders where we are making great strides; to educate Wiccans of all levels, by creating an online school. If you would like to apply to this school I have included a link to TCC on the first page. 

Morality; The Wiccan Rede

What is morality?? Easy it is common sense (period!)  

A wiccan friend of mine was once asked by a born-again christian, who was honestly concerned, how ,if we had no 10 commandments to follow, did we know right from wrong.We are all born with a conscience and that little voice tells us right from wrong and what morality is. I don't need a written list of rules to know that murder is wrong, that adultery is wrong, that disrespecting people is wrong, that stealing is wrong; common sense will prevail.Then I told my friend "...but, ah! we do have a commandment of sorts. We have the Wiccan Rede; and in such a short sentence holds all the morality and glory of all wiccandom. "AN' IT HARM NONE, DO WHAT YE WILL." There it is; plain, simple to understand. It is to do what ever your hearts desire but no one is to be harmed by you. I think it pretty much covers everything christian commandments don't; our morality goes deeper than theirs (sorry have to do a little bashing even though it is VERY unwiccan of me) in MY opinion, because we revere the earth and everything on it instead of ourselves and how we can get ourselves to heaven instead of creating a liveable world here for us and our descendants and us again.  

Stepping down from the soapbox now! :o) 

Prejudice

Ah this one is a hard one to nail down because no matter who you are there is a hint of predjudice in all of us. I have seen some wiccans out-and-out violent when it come to the subject of Christians; proving to me that they themselves are just as religiously-predjudiced as any christian. I think we need to work on ourselves and our acceptance of other religions because no matter what you say or do you will not change other peoples minds; it is theirs to change, not ours. Oh yes we can give them the RIGHT information about who we are and what we stand fo,r but remember, they have had it drilled in their heads all their life that any religion other than Christianity is wrong .It hurts when we are trod upon by our fellow man just because we choose to to call our God, God and Goddess and our heaven Summerland; they will be the surprised ones when we walk up to them there and shake their hand and say welcome. As Herne says, there are many paths through the forest to get to the same meadow where we will all be equal. I would love for the prejudices of the world to dissappea,r but we must be realistic in the fact that it won't, albeit a sad fact. But I also think, as a community, we can work together and dispell the myths and, hopefully, if we can get just one person to change their mind just a little then the effort we put forth is worth it. Attacking them and being rude and violent is only going to confirm their already steadfast opinions about what we do and who we are. Be nice, be polite, be the best of the best of wiccan kindness; and respect their choice of religion just as you want them to respect your choice. 
 
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