u/ughhleavemealone

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For those who have a christian family, is it worth it coming out about your witchcraft?

The reason I feel the need to come out is because I can't stand living a lie anymore. I can't stand pretending to believe in God just so they'll respect me. I'm so sick of hiding my practices, not being able to wear anything that resembles witchcraft, tired of being scared if they will smell my incense. I'm seriously at my limit here.

But on the other hand they are those kind of christians who will judge someone as being a witch just cause they didn't answer "God bless" back. We don't live in the same house, but we do share the same yard, and others live very close.

Plus, they are my husband's family (he supports me and is even showing interest in what I practice). But they blame me for literally everything that goes wrong in our lives, and also I notice they are less and less affectionate towards me since we stopped going to church, and I'm pretty sure his aunt say my pentagram the other day. I'm genuinely sad about all this, from me having to hide to them blaming me and pulling away.

So for those who share a similar background, what was your experience with telling them the truth? If they don't know, what made you decide not to share?

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u/ughhleavemealone — 3 days ago
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About the threefold law

I'm studying about the religion and learning before I decide if I wanna be officially apart of it or if I wanna follow another path. So I'm pretty aligned with it so far, but I'm having problems with the whole "anything you do comes back tripled" thing cause I simply don't believe it.

I have a grey moral code, and I believe interfering negatively in someone's life can be actually a good things in some cases. I don't understand how that would even work since different cultures and different belief systems can understand good and bad differently, morality isn't black and white.

I don't believe in karma like at all, so would that be a barrier between me and this religion? I haven't found any discussion on this topic in the books I read so far so I accept suggestions. But what's your opinion on this? Can someone be open to practicing so called "bad witchcraft" and still be Wiccan? Can you not believe in the threefold law and practice the religion? How important it actually is at the end of the day?

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u/ughhleavemealone — 5 days ago