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What led you to the beliefs you are now practicing is something everybody have a different answer to.
Eddie Chumney, '' The 7 feasts of Christ.''
One night I was crying because I was just not a good enough man to be a father to support two families and I was reading the bible and I read a verse.
From that time on I had a goal.
Zechariah 10
Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will be glad as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it and be glad, Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.
I had just learned who Ephraim was through Eddie Chumney and I set my sights on becoming just that, and maybe my children would one day be proud.
I was brought up in both the Jewish & Episcopal faiths. (Dad was a Jew, Ma was a Episcopalian.) At my mother's urging, I was baptized in the Episcopal Church at the age of 10 (which angered my Dad-not at me but my mother). I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church at the age of 13.
In my late 20s-early 30s, I went back to college. I first took a mythology course which made me understand how mythology & religion go hand in hand. I also started reading about Wicca. It just made sense to me. I then took a philosophy course and it was during that course that I pretty much had a "light bulb" moment. I realized that I pretty much had these beliefs all of my life but didn't quite understand them or had a name for them. I now understand them and even have a name-Wicca. It is basically who I am.
Through personal experience, people once believed that the sun goes around the earth. This was considered to be established fact pretty much everywhere in the world.
However, we now know that the sun does no such thing.
So, how reliable do you think personal experience is?
I listen to men telling me to submit. I recognize them as threatened by women.
Telling me not to wear pants. I recognize them as ignorant.
Telling me not to earn another degree. They value ignorance and stupidity.
Telling me not to celebrate. They fear happiness and joy.
Telling me my LGBTQ brothers and sisters are doomed. I recognize them as fundamentalist ideologues.
Telling me I must follow their interpretation of the Bible. I recognize they deserve my correction.
My life long friendship with God empowers the both of us.
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