Obsidian

I think the only brand of people that pisses me off more than ultraChristian crusaders (of the likes of Benny Hinn and John Hagee and other televangelists) or New Jersey drivers, are crusaders of the Wiccan kind. You know, Wicca touts itself as not hating other religions, but try to bring up Christianity to a group of Wiccans and they immediately turn defensive. I've actually tried bringing up Christianity (and not in a bashing sense, mind you) on Wiccan chat lines, and they immediately dismiss me as a Christian trying to save their lost, damned souls, and rip the Christophile a new asshole. I find it absolutely hilarious while it's happening (and I do it mostly for the laugh), but at the same time I am utterly disgusted and completely appalled by the demeanour of these hypocritical pieces of shit we call our fellow Wiccans.

I'd like to get a few things straight in the minds of the NWO-indoctrinated Wiccan™, so listen the fuck up:

1. NOT ALL CHRISTIANS ARE BAD. In fact, most Christians (just like most people) are inherently good, and seek good, and use their religion for the benefit of both them and their society.
2. NOT ALL WICCANS ARE GOOD. In fact, most people get into Wicca because they are rebelling against Christianity, but don't have the cojones to make an all-out 180° turn into Satanism. They settle into what seems a happy medium: they're into a religion that creeps out their otherwise comfortable parents (thus giving appropriate shock value) but they're not really doing anything evil, so they can clear their conscience...until they read Satan's Little White Lie or read the Left Behind series. I'll confess that I originally left Christianity in a state of rebellion, and I found and embraced Wicca for this very reason. However, I've grown up a lot in the last four or five years, and I can safely say that I am pagan for reasons other than misplaced teenage rebellion. "Oh yeah daddy? Well, I hate you and I hate your god!" Grow the fuck up, Junior. I did.
3. THE BURNING TIMES ARE NOT YOURS TO DEFEND. They are the Christians' and the feminists'. The Inquisitors didn't kill any witches; in fact, most of those killed were good Christian women who happened to piss off the wrong person. Yes, the Inquisition was horrible and cruel and an unjust massacre of innocents on foolish and unrealistic precepts, but they aren't the modern Wiccans' to look at and go "See? Look how bad you treated us!" This is the same reason that black people today shouldn't get reparations from whites because their great-grandpappy was a slave picking cotton in South Carolina...but that's a whole other rant altogether ;)
4. THE BIBLE IS NOT ANTI-WICCAN. The Bible is opposed to anything that YHWH is opposed to. So, thou hypocritical, self-righteous perfect little Wiccan, get over your little self-importance issues. The Bible was around long before any hints of Wicca™ were, and YHWH's jealous of anything he can't directly control. So get over yourself, and step outside your own shoes when you analyse another religion. If you don't, you're just as bad as the closed-minded fucks you've declared war upon. Two wrongs don't make a right.
5. Most of all...FEMINISM AND ENVIRONMENTALISM ARE NOT PREREQUESITES OF PAGANISM!!! While it is true that most of Wicca's political power comes from the I-5 stretch and for some odd reason most modern pagans are also feminists and environmentalists, THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Thank you, Scott Cunningham and Margot Adler, for clouding our minds with this nonsense. Look: I care a lot for my world. I love my world, and I live on my world, and if it weren't for this world I nor anyone else would be here, for obvious reasons. But I believe that there are better things to do in this world than spend your life protesting (which is organized whining with pretty billboards and picket signs). You really want to do your world justice? Convert your picket signs into a giant windmill and generate your own electricity. Stop trying to save 50 whales and start researching a way to sysnthesise whale blubber, so they don't HAVE to go out poaching endangered species. Stop trying to get Exxon to do it (you know they won't) and go clean the sludge off of the Valdez shore yourself! Basically, stop whining and DO SOMETHING. That's the point there.

I've gotten quite far off topic, and this really isn't a topical rant, since I finally finished the last bit of moving and everything and my mind's still somewhere else. However, I HAD to update this site, because I can't let it go a month without being updated. Basically, to all of you crusaders, I want you to stop going on your little hunts for whatever mite of political power you're trying to gain and put your effort somewhere where it matters. Focus on your spirituality. Focus on your family. Focus on your friends...your music...your art...your magic...your work, even...just be a person. You don't have to be a hero, a rock star, President, or even define yourself as an environmentalist, a C.E.O. or even a pagan. Just be you.

I'm Obsidian. And I'm about to drop dead tired. Goodnight.

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