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More Reasons Why Wiccans Suck

Or Why the Death of Your Ex Doesn’t Warrant Any Communication

Part 1 - written at the end of April

All I have to say is… wow.

I got a message on Facebook the other day from a friend in England, asking if I had details on the death of my ex-fiancé a week prior. I had none, and was very surprised to hear it as the last time we had talked, he hadn’t mentioned being any sicker than usual - in fact the last time we talked was not a good talk, it was one of those talks that was necessary but painful. Since then, we hadn’t been talking at all since it was becoming apparent that he was trying to manipulate me into staying in a living situation that was untenable for me, even going to far as to suggest that my current boyfriend was manipulating me. I know, he’s dead, but that is what was happening.

Then I find out from a friend 2000 miles away that he’s dead. I called his Mom right away and apologized for not getting in touch earlier, but I hadn’t found out until now. Apparently the anti-Angela Wiccan Press Corps had made it all the way up to Barrie, because she responded with an icy “maybe nobody knew where you were”. Total bollocks. They had my Facebook info, my e-mail, and could have found my phone number if they had searched the internet. Of course they could have contacted me.

So, why didn’t they tell me? Why didn’t I know that he was in the hospital? I am supposing that the fact that I was refusing to live in the same house with my ex and another Wiccan parasite for the rest of my life meant that I didn’t care if my ex died, or this is at least what they told themselves to make themselves feel better about it. I believe the real reason is that nobody wanted to mingle with me at any funerary rites (if these idiots even bothered to organize any). To say that I am thoroughly disgusted with the entire southern Ontario pagan community is an understatement.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m glad I didn’t have to organize a funeral. I’m glad I didn’t have to write and pay for an obituary, although I have been searching for one and apparently nobody bothered. I’m happy that I don’t have to listen to a bunch of Wiccans crying about how he was such a great man and they admired him so much, when a few years ago the same people were deriding him for being a “ceremonialist” (apparently that warranted derison…. don’t ask).

However I am shocked and stunned at the fact that not one of them would do the adult thing and at least send me a message. For all of their professed belief in the Laws, I think they ignored about ten of them in this particular situation. But I guess that is OK as I have ignored most of the laws myself by telling most of them to go sod themselves.

Part 2 - Written in June

I thought I’d sit on the above entry for a while just to ensure that it wasn’t all vitriol and sniping. I’ve had a good read and it is pretty tame considering what my thoughts were on the subject originally.

I also had a good talk with an old friend last week (incidentally the same one that messaged me from England) about Wicca and the lack of checks and balances that it has. She responded with something intelligent, which I really haven’t been used to in the last few years considering the company I kept. She said that if we were to consider developmental stages of a religion, Wicca is somewhere around “Mark” if we want to use Xianity as an example. In other words, Wicca still has a long way to go.

I also saw a documentary on a cult called the “Children of God”. Like Wicca, this cult was borne out of the hippie movement and is, at its heart, a sex cult. Like Wicca, they also had a very hard time policing their own (especially since the largest offender was the head of the cult) and allowed pedophiles and power-mongers to freely operate within the cult. The similarities were disturbing at best, and I encourage any Wiccan to look up this cult and research it so that they can see the same things I did. Basically the Children of God is where a Wiccan group can end up if the leaders and group members let it go there; some would argue that the Frosts have been there and kept on going, given the glorification of pedophilia in much of their literature.

The only problem with setting up a central body (like The Vatican) to overlook Wiccan goings-on is that inevitably, the ones who are most corrupted and corruptible would end up on it. So how can they stop unseemliness from entering the religion? It really comes down to an individual level. Each person who decides that they are going to be Wiccan has to police those around them and themselves, including their teachers and especially anyone who claims to be “in authority”. My treatment at the hands of the community was such that I can never go back, but I urge those who are there to take a careful, hard look at their community and start making changes if they need to be made. This is the only way that Wiccans can even come close to achieving legitimacy, although I fear heavily made-up members of the faith speaking for everyone on October 31st news broadcasts have already set the religion back decades all by themselves.

On one hand, I couldn’t care less about Wiccans now. On the other, I think that maybe if I had the opportunity to read an opposing viewpoint that sounded reasonable five to ten years ago, I may have tried to at least do something about the way that the community turns a blind eye to its problems. So I decided to finally publish this article that has been nagging me in my drafts folder for two months, and there it is. Take it or leave it.

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