Many years ago, before I came to the point in my walk where I am now(I will stand up for my belief.....but many years ago I was more concerned about what my family would think if I hadn't shown up). My brother and his wife were married by a witch(prietess)....they had the cauldron, the broom, the magic circle cast. I attended.....with my hubby, and for at least 6 months after we were under major spiritual attack. Tires slashed on a daily basis....windows breaking in on top of us in the middle of the night....screaming (a womans voice) in our home in the middle of the night.
We opened a door.....because we knew that what we were witnessing was sooooo wrong and soooooo against our Lord, and yet we condoned it by just being there.
i would think twice about attending any kind of 'mock' wedding.......I know that from personal experiences....that we never will again.
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...cauldron? Broom? Magic circle? House, stop reading Dave Benoit, okay? Trust me, it was probably him that gave you the freaky trip, not any such "witches".
@Alcari: Sure they do. I mean, why else would the kids they handed out Chick tracts to instead of candy slash their tires? Demons!
This is not, in fact, "spiritual attack." This is something we call "vandalism." If it happened at all.
Although I admire spooks who do more than just rattling the china in the cabinet a little bit.
@CS - My 1 vote is cast for option 2.
Someone else mentioned Chick tracts for Hallowe'en treats.
Do you often "witness" your neighbours?
If you lived next door to me, I'd be tempted...
What a crock of shit.
Hubby and I were married by a priest and priestess and none of our Christian/Anglican friends had any such problems.
My guess, you are just a douche and pissed off your neighbors.
"Many years ago, before I came to the point in my walk where I am now(I will stand up for my belief....."
You usually do have to stand up in order to walk.
"many years ago I was more concerned about what my family would think if I hadn't shown up"
They would have thought your parents were either sterile or not having sex.
Liked your quote. Keep up the good work and enjoy your hobby.
Love ya, Pule.
Tires slashed on a daily basis....windows breaking in on top of us in the middle of the night....screaming (a womans voice) in our home in the middle of the night.
Does your neighborhood have a high level of domestic violence, perchance?
(Not to make fun of domestic violence, of course, but it seems like a more...realistic , shall we say, explanations of the described events.
I attended church for a while. When I attended I was told I was under constant spiritual attack, my family line was being plagued by demons, to burn my books and to go under certain spiritual rituals to make me a church member so I could receive the flesh and blood of their supposed messiah. During services I endured all manner of mad screaming and hysterical laughter while everyone was supposedly possesed by one almighty spirit.
I left and then realised all my problems were for neurochemical reasons and bad decisions, my family was fine and I don't need to burn books.
The end.
I'm not an American, so I don't know the prics of tires. But for sure, replacing just ONE tire daily would be more than my salary could handle, assuming I still wanted to keep my house, eat, you know,, the normal things people do.
Why do these people lie so much? What fuels their need for story telling and wild invention? Honest faith I have no problem with (I may not respect what you believe but I respect your right to believe it as long as you have the common decency to NOT try to impose it on me or anyone else) but ever more elaborate flights of fancy - lies - in support of a clearly bigoted agenda I find contemptible.
Just grow up and while you're at it would be well worth the time and effort involved to try to understand the concepts of "integrity" and "self respect", because right now you have none.
It could have been demons...
Or it could have been locals etc pissed at her running around screaming fire and brimstone?
I know how your type is missy, the moment something scares you because it is not in the book that does the thinking for you, you immediately and LOUDLY voice your opinion. Obsessing over something that is none of your business and annoying people until the point of being FUCKING annoyed!
PS. Marriage was around before the Church raped it, Handfasting and whatnot
PSS. Lay off of the acid, this was probably all in your head.
Ok, It does work,
Bullshit.
Can sombody move it back to the 18th post please
wackadoodle, I know exactly what you mean about copying other fundies BS. I was raised in Baptist churches and heard more than one visiting pastor tell the story of how he was preaching at a revivial and there was a boy in the last row making fun of him during the entire service. The boy leaves the church and is in a bad automobile accident a block from the church. The pastor runs to get there and the boy dies in a flaming car yelling tell that preacher I'm sorry. Doesn't the bible say something about Thou shall not lie??
Since when is valdalism a spiritual attack? LOL
Lets see I've been praciticing witch/Wiccan for 5 yrs and my husband is Xtian (no he isn't a fundie and is generally anti church BTW). He has attended many rituals over the years. If "demons" came after Xtians who attend riuals, my husband would be at the head of the line.
BTW....I do not doubt that there was a cauldron and broom(besom) as a part of the ritual.
"mock" wedding- she probably thinks a secular wedding at the JP is mock too.
What an arrogant bitch! It is not her fucking place to "condone", and that was a real wedding, not a "mock" anything!
I'd love to try for humor, but some of my relatives made statements similar to this when they explained why they couldn't attend my Pagan, same-sex wedding.
@ sha_lyn68: The thread just totally pissed me off, too.
A quote from Pam on the Office (US version) is in my head: "It's my wedding, and I don't want anyone there who has called me a 'hussy'."
Wow, those were real demony demons. Let's say you were paying $50 per tire X 4 per day, X 6 months. So $36,000 for tires during that period, huh?
I see either a fabricated story, or a lot of misrepresentation. Another possibility is psychiatric issues and misinterpretations. Tire and window damage don't have a supernatural origin. The story also has a classical fundamentalist radicalization essence: a message of segregation, including from one's family if necessary. Then a lot of superstition.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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