Mysticmemos

btw almost every single thing pagans credit with “the reason we aren’t respected as a religion” is wrong. it’s not community infighting, or woo magic users, or pop culture pagans. it’s the fact we live in a culturally Christian society that teaches all other religions are “primitive and backwards”, and considers similarity and proximity to Christianity to be the basis by which other religions are evaluated as “respectable” or “superstitious nonsense”. if you think that you would get “respect” from mainstream Christians and secular people because you’re a strict recon who never argues with other pagans or does anything considered “weird” within paganism, you’re fooling yourself.

i wonder why it is that so many people are so very concerned with getting “respect” from mainstream religious groups and the secular world, while you can’t be bothered to treat other polytheists and pagans with respect as soon as they in any way challenge your personal comfort, or jeapordize your perceived “respectability” by association.

THE other day I went to a museum in my town and they had a gar in the tank and it was just swimming around with a rock in its long snout

All other religions bind you with rules; "Do this. Don't do that."

The Devil alone says "Do as you wish. For I will never judge."

--Belial

"oh so you're spiritual but not religious" no actually I am deeply religious in alarmingly carnal and esoteric ways. If you even care.

I really don’t like how the chilling adventures of sabrina ended up demonizing (lol) satanism. at first it was about satanic witches and satanism and that was great but they ended up abandoning Satan for Hecate because of something that would only ever happen in a christian church. no satanic church would force anyone to stay in a religion they didn’t feel was for them. awful representation.

U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

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