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Hello Wintershard, Are you one of those tolerant people you speak of? If so come to Alt.religion and help educate the mind of a few bigots. You can pick up one of my post and spead the message out. Christ is all things to all people and condemns no one. I think Wicca needs more exposure and representation in Christians NG’s
With all due respect to those of the Christian newsgroups, bigots of the religious kind – especially when it comes to the online nature – are those in which trying to change their mind is like trying to knock down a thrice-deep brick wall using only your forehead. Instead, I simply live out my days in the Bible Belt and talk to people around me if they do indeed bring up the subject. Most people think me as a "good little Christian" until they hear me talk of metaphysics and the like *soft chuckle*. That alone tends to turn thoughts as needed. As for tolerance . . . depends on the person I need be tolerant of *chuckle*. Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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i hope you can understand this: no, i wait. it took me three years to tell my friend at work. its not wanna take a bulletin sign on the side of the road and write "yes, i’m a witch and what in the hades should you care for!" but i dont. i keep my calm and i go about my daily business. anyways, the whole point of this post is: first i get aquanted, if we become friends then they obviously get to see both sides of this gemini (and how for once, and rarely) she gets along fabulously with her pisces. they see she has a great personnality, a wonderful caring and sincere friend, now, after that if i feel comfortable like i tell them anything, my deepest and darkest secrets then i tell about us being wiccan. its backfired as some things do. but right now, my friends that i had in highschool are the ones that are still my friends. the ones that we met in the work place etc and we’re tryin to become more and better friends with because they had a great peronnality etc, thier not speakable anymore. i try, like i’ll say hi while up in the air and walk on like i’m some kind of disease
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – yes, i have attempted to come out and tell about mine and my husband’s religious prefrences and no matter which way we try, it always seems to make matters worse, so there for i belive i’ll keep my head in the sand (so to speak) for now and for my future children’s sake Do you do this before or after people start to get to know you? There are a few people that I interact with on an almost daily basis who got used to my character long before they found out about my religious beliefs, and after a small surprise, found that I was basically the same person as they had always known. I can understand the rationality behind it, though, as sad as it is to be deemed necessary in the world today. Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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yes, i have attempted to come out and tell about mine and my husband’s religious prefrences and no matter which way we try, it always seems to make matters worse, so there for i belive i’ll keep my head in the sand (so to speak) for now and for my future children’s sake
Do you do this before or after people start to get to know you? There are a few people that I interact with on an almost daily basis who got used to my character long before they found out about my religious beliefs, and after a small surprise, found that I was basically the same person as they had always known. I can understand the rationality behind it, though, as sad as it is to be deemed necessary in the world today. Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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as in waldorf maryland? Try a Waldorf school..
I was thinking of a school with mayonnaise and Jell-O and carrots. — —cerista http://www.geocities.com/javagoddess_cerista http://freesomes.homestead.com http://www.yalzer.com/CH1759
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – So called Christians would crucify you and your children. Most have no idea what wicca is. They think it’s devil worship and before they took the time to find out, If they bother at all, they would crucify your whole family.. Michael’s right, unfortunately. Starting your own school would be suicidal. Though I’m not wiccan, I wish that it weren’t so. <sigh Rabbi David M. Honigsberg
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starting a school of my own, thats an idea i’ve been tossing around in my head. but i’m not to sure thats something i need to get into, atleast not yet. we’re goin to homeschool at the moment (they still do the before class begins prayer type stuff here, and there’s too much persecution upon me and my husband just becasue we’re diffrent and i really dont want them to be the bearer of someone tryin to get back at us—we’re attempting to relocate at the moment) anyways, i’m sure that once the children come we will have atleast an inkling of what we shall do 
thankyou
I take it, then, that it is somewhat known that you are Wiccan? Or is there some other way in which you are different, if that I may ask? Good luck on your journey through home education *smile*. I was spoiled with it by my parents when I was a teenager, and look back on it now as one of the smarter moves that was made during my schooling years. As long as you’re able to teach the curriculum that is established – hey, you’re all set . Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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So called Christians would crucify you and your children. Most have no idea what wicca is. They think it’s devil worship and before they took the time to find out, If they bother at all, they would crucify your whole family..
Some Christians might be like that, but not all. It is true that there are extremists in every camp, and such is definitely the case with the Christian religion. However, there is also a growing tolerance among so-called Christians for those of other faiths. These are exciting times to live in. Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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yes, i have attempted to come out and tell about mine and my husband’s religious prefrences and no matter which way we try, it always seems to make matters worse, so there for i belive i’ll keep my head in the sand (so to speak) for now and for my future children’s sake
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – starting a school of my own, thats an idea i’ve been tossing around in my head. but i’m not to sure thats something i need to get into, atleast not yet. we’re goin to homeschool at the moment (they still do the before class begins prayer type stuff here, and there’s too much persecution upon me and my husband just becasue we’re diffrent and i really dont want them to be the bearer of someone tryin to get back at us—we’re attempting to relocate at the moment) anyways, i’m sure that once the children come we will have atleast an inkling of what we shall do thankyou I take it, then, that it is somewhat known that you are Wiccan? Or is there some other way in which you are different, if that I may ask? Good luck on your journey through home education *smile*. I was spoiled with it by my parents when I was a teenager, and look back on it now as one of the smarter moves that was made during my schooling years. As long as you’re able to teach the curriculum that is established – hey, you’re all set . Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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I seriously doubt you’ll find such a thing, sorry. Alot of pagan parents turn to homeschooling their children for that reason. Silara
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – me and my husband were talkin earlier tonight and we were discussing how it would be ideal to raise our kids in the wiccan traditions that we are now living ourselves. i had went out a bought a book on raising children in the goddess tradition and we both like it. now, my question is: are there any private schools for wicca? or even paganism? and also, how well do you think someone tryin to start one in a community would go over (take into consideration my husband and i live in the bible belt) thankyou blaez
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as in waldorf maryland? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Try a Waldorf school..
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thankyou, i’ve "come out of the broom-closet" to only a few friends at work and some of my other personnal friends……and comming out to my parents, now thats a test! lol like i think i said before, thier both christian everyhting, its gettin harder and harder to say "no" to them cuz they’ve heard every excuse in the book now 
at one point i even admitted "i dont believe the same way as you do" and then tried to procceed with explaining a little, and you know what they said? "god is the only truth" and procceeded to preach at me! i love my parents, i wish they could understand. my friends do, and they accept it (accept one, but she dont preach at me like my parents do…its funny actually….we roll our eyes at each other and laugh and then go on about what ever we were doin) anyways, i dont think i’ll be startin a church of wicca of my own. for now i’m just gonna keep it quiet and teach my children in home school. i know this is the wrong thing but, once i move FAR FAR away from here, then i’ll – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – and also, how well do you think someone tryin to start one in a community would go over (take into consideration my husband and i live in the bible belt) So called Christians would crucify you and your children. Most have no idea what wicca is. They think it’s devil worship and before they took the time to find out, If they bother at all, they would crucify your whole family.. If your so inclined to take it public I would first try to educate your community in the true beliefs of wicca. Start your own Wicca church? Good luck and may the great spirit be with you. Michael A preacher is the blind leading the blind… The Last Church http://www.thelastchurch.org
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – me and my husband were talkin earlier tonight and we were discussing how it would be ideal to raise our kids in the wiccan traditions that we are now living ourselves. i had went out a bought a book on raising children in the goddess tradition and we both like it. now, my question is: are there any private schools for wicca? or even paganism? and also, how well do you think someone tryin to start one in a community would go over (take into consideration my husband and i live in the bible belt) My suggestion would be, if youa re that dedicated to starting a school, see if you can find a few supporters to help you with the financing, and then create a school that doesn’t have anything to do with religion of a type, but more to do with a general scope of global religions instead. (Loosely) If you teach children how to respect nature – to learn from it and its offerings – and then give a broad idea to them of what differing theologies and beliefs there are in the world, then this plus a simple code of ethics is a great way to start them on Wiccan ideologies. From what I know, there aren’t any particularly Wiccan schools, although there are a great deal of college students these days (usually in the smaller private colleges) who claim to be pagan or at least open to the idea. Students of younger ages, I wouldn’t be familiar with. Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
starting a school of my own, thats an idea i’ve been tossing around in my head. but i’m not to sure thats something i need to get into, atleast not yet. we’re goin to homeschool at the moment (they still do the before class begins prayer type stuff here, and there’s too much persecution upon me and my husband just becasue we’re diffrent and i really dont want them to be the bearer of someone tryin to get back at us—we’re attempting to relocate at the moment) anyways, i’m sure that once the children come we will have atleast an inkling of what we shall do thankyou
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Try a Waldorf school..
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So called Christians would crucify you and your children. Most have no idea what wicca is. They think it’s devil worship and before they took the time to find out, If they bother at all, they would crucify your whole family..
Michael’s right, unfortunately. Starting your own school would be suicidal. Though I’m not wiccan, I wish that it weren’t so. <sigh Rabbi David M. Honigsberg
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me and my husband were talkin earlier tonight and we were discussing how it would be ideal to raise our kids in the wiccan traditions that we are now living ourselves. i had went out a bought a book on raising children in the goddess tradition and we both like it. now, my question is: are there any private schools for wicca? or even paganism? and also, how well do you think someone tryin to start one in a community would go over (take into consideration my husband and i live in the bible belt) thankyou blaez
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me and my husband were talkin earlier tonight and we were discussing how it would be ideal to raise our kids in the wiccan traditions that we are now living ourselves. i had went out a bought a book on raising children in the goddess tradition and we both like it. now, my question is: are there any private schools for wicca? or even paganism? and also, how well do you think someone tryin to start one in a community would go over (take into consideration my husband and i live in the bible belt)
My suggestion would be, if youa re that dedicated to starting a school, see if you can find a few supporters to help you with the financing, and then create a school that doesn’t have anything to do with religion of a type, but more to do with a general scope of global religions instead. (Loosely) If you teach children how to respect nature – to learn from it and its offerings – and then give a broad idea to them of what differing theologies and beliefs there are in the world, then this plus a simple code of ethics is a great way to start them on Wiccan ideologies. From what I know, there aren’t any particularly Wiccan schools, although there are a great deal of college students these days (usually in the smaller private colleges) who claim to be pagan or at least open to the idea. Students of younger ages, I wouldn’t be familiar with. Bright be thy day in the sun, Wintershard minterra.yahoo.com ARW photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wintershard/photo.html
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