Good Witch Bad Witch?

I found myself in Salem, Massachusettes, absolutely in love with colonial history and the insanity that accompanied the Salem Witch Trials. Boy was I in my glory here, everything in Salem exhuded colonial history and everyone seemed as weird and artsy as I am. I had never fit in with my own family thanks to this weird trait, still not sure which gene pool I have swam in to obtain that. But anyway, I only ended up being there for several glorious hours and dreaded my departure. In the museum I was given a taste of Pagan and Wiccan culture which opened my eyes to a new and exciting way of living. What does this have to do with feminism? I know it does not seem to come together yet but please, be patient.

I have always grown up around Catholicism, a religion I learned to despise thanks to its hypocritical and sexists ideas and let me not forget its mostly judgemental participants, at least from my experience. How can I find solace and faith in a religion who tells homosexuals their way of life is wrong when they harbor pedophiles who rape and molest innocent children? Well, upon hearing the Wiccan crede, "Do what ye will if it harm none," I was immediately transformed. I know other people think that Wicca is weird and even evil and that witches come together under the full moon and summon the devil to get even with their earthly rivals. Well let me tell you that that is completely WRONG. Do not misunderstand me, I by no means am saying that Catholicism is wrong or bad. I know the church gives hope and comfort to many people

All I am saying is that there is a belief system out there that has restored MY faith in organized religion, I found a place where the way I think about the world actually exhists. Where power and creativity do not lie in the hands of a male god but a Goddess and a God. Both cannot exhist without the other. No where is there a story that says the first ancestor of my sex destroyed the the plan that god created for his human beings. I am not to be looked upon as the beginning of the fall of man kind nor the naive, easily seducted seductress.

As I have come to learn and respect Wiccan religion, I have also adopted it into my everyday life. Each day I hope to learn more and become a better participant in the ideas of respecting nature and my other fellow human beings. I can be proud to pass this on to my children, my daughter. She will know that she has importance in the world that being a woman is also as powerful as being a man. Like the sun and the moon, life could not exists with just the male or the female. No one is judgemental, no one is pushed away, there are no evil chants or devil worshipping. There is not even the existence of hell. I am sorry that the pentagram has such a negative connotation, just as being a woman does. Anyway, until next time...Blessed Be