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 Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:21 pm
Ive ment this wiccan She seems Farly new to all aspects of wicca, but is smarter then most of the book learnt ive ment so far,(who havent learned things the hard way) and her best friend is a hard-core christain, and the wiccan has kept this from her friend, because her friend is one of the 'The christian God is the only god and everyone who thinks diffrent should either convert or get out of my life' types ( i hope most of you understand what i mean)
Well im thinking about talking to her friend to see if i can open her mind just slightly and hopefully help make it easyer for the new wiccan to tell her about her faith and so she can stop pretending , But im worried i may end up hindering or destorying the friendship, I have experance talking to people like that and helping them see that This point of veiw isnt very 'Chirstain' ((aka Christ-Like as the name means)).
i havent yet asked the new wiccan if she wants my help, because i need to deside if it would be a wise corse of action for me too take or if i should just stay out of it.
a large Part of me screams stay out of it because making a christain question there faith is like playing with napam ((Someones Gona get burned...)), But my compasstion for her situation is pushing me to act, so i thought id come and ask for Guidance and advice, anything you can place forward to help make up my mind would be of Much help.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:00 pm
hellflame3000 Ive ment this wiccan She seems Farly new to all aspects of wicca, but is smarter then most of the book learnt ive ment so far,(who havent learned things the hard way) and her best friend is a hard-core christain, and the wiccan has kept this from her friend, because her friend is one of the 'The christian God is the only god and everyone who thinks diffrent should either convert or get out of my life' types ( i hope most of you understand what i mean) Well im thinking about talking to her friend to see if i can open her mind just slightly and hopefully help make it easyer for the new wiccan to tell her about her faith and so she can stop pretending , But im worried i may end up hindering or destorying the friendship, I have experance talking to people like that and helping them see that This point of veiw isnt very 'Chirstain' ((aka Christ-Like as the name means)). i havent yet asked the new wiccan if she wants my help, because i need to deside if it would be a wise corse of action for me too take or if i should just stay out of it. a large Part of me screams stay out of it because making a christain question there faith is like playing with napam ((Someones Gona get burned...)), But my compasstion for her situation is pushing me to act, so i thought id come and ask for Guidance and advice, anything you can place forward to help make up my mind would be of Much help. While I commend you on wanting to help (as I would also want to do the same thing), I would not recommend doing that. By you going and asking her friend about it, she might become more aware of the wiccans around her. I would talk to the Wiccan and have her tell her friend. Deciet only breads more deciet. If she is truely her friend (even if she is one of the 'better than thou' christans), and a true believer in the christian faith, she will accept her as she is and will respect her. However, if her friend shuns her, then her friend is not a true christan and is two faced. She will be better of with out her friendship in the end. Will hurt at first, but she will get over it. The reason I say she would be two faced (or a hipicrit) is because the bible says, (and i cant quote the exact passage) Do not judge other for only God may lay judge upon you. I used to the a christian for a long time, thought I was not perfert, i understood that, and to this day it is one of my prime principals. So, if her friend rejects her, then she is not a friend worth having...
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:04 pm
Thanks you for your veiw 3nodding ...
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:01 am
I have the same problem as your friend. My best friends is hard core Christian, and that is the true way and any other way is the way of the devil...
(I once had a pentacle as my msn pic and she asked me to change it becuase it was giving her a headache)
I think maybe you should try to get the Christian girl to understand mopre about wiccan.. and try to keep your new friends out of it...
Explain to her the key principlas and the fact we do not believe in the devil so how can we be devil worshippers.... stuff like that, try and get her a little more open minded about it or something....
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:38 pm
Thank you for your idea
though thats what i was planing on
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:45 pm
hellflame3000 Ive ment this wiccan She seems Farly new to all aspects of wicca, but is smarter then most of the book learnt ive ment so far,(who havent learned things the hard way) and her best friend is a hard-core christain, and the wiccan has kept this from her friend, because her friend is one of the 'The christian God is the only god and everyone who thinks diffrent should either convert or get out of my life' types ( i hope most of you understand what i mean) Well im thinking about talking to her friend to see if i can open her mind just slightly and hopefully help make it easyer for the new wiccan to tell her about her faith and so she can stop pretending , But im worried i may end up hindering or destorying the friendship, I have experance talking to people like that and helping them see that This point of veiw isnt very 'Chirstain' ((aka Christ-Like as the name means)). i havent yet asked the new wiccan if she wants my help, because i need to deside if it would be a wise corse of action for me too take or if i should just stay out of it. a large Part of me screams stay out of it because making a christain question there faith is like playing with napam ((Someones Gona get burned...)), But my compasstion for her situation is pushing me to act, so i thought id come and ask for Guidance and advice, anything you can place forward to help make up my mind would be of Much help. Tis' a very kind thought, I'd want to help too. But I don't know if that's best or not. My Christian friend, because of me, is slowly beginning to be aware of how many Wiccans attend my school, and how the stereotypes are all wrong, and she sees the struggle that many of us have with not being able to be proud of our religion (like say, Christians can wear a cross necklace, but I couldn't wear a pentacle necklace). I didn't so much make her question her faith, but maybe it would be a good idea to bring other religions up first and see if she's open to them and just not Wicca. I don't know where I'm going with this, and I probably wasn't much help. I know this girl as well, who (sadly) fits the stereotype Wicca, and her friends are slowly abandoning her because of her faith. It's a really painful thing to see and I just want to kick her friends for being so ignorant to another faith. It's truly sad what some of us go through.
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:32 pm
I agree with LightOfTheBlade on this one...That matter is for your Wiccan friend and her friend to discuss among themselves. I know it can be hard...But I think the best thing is to stay out of it...If the friendship is strong then it should be open and they should be able to communicate with each other so your friend needs to decide for herself what the situation should be.
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