After I had been drawing a pentagram, the Wiccan one, I showed it to a Christian friend of mine.
Now, this pentagram is known for centuries as a symbol of protection in the Pagan/Wiccan religion.
Nothing wrong with that I’d say…
But this fucked-up friend of mine scratched it so it could be seen as a pentagram, he thought it was something evil.
I’ve got nothing against Christianity or any other religion but people who believe in such religions seem to have narrow vision about things in life.
The things they don’t know are clasified as evil.
They are being trained at this from their birth and they don’t know how to think otherwise.
They claim that it’s their undying believe, well, I believe that’s bullshit.
You know, it is the same like if I would scratch or break a Cross (one Jezus was cruzefied on).
And what would happen to me!?!
I would be killed, ripped to pieces by Christians.
So, why the hell is some asshole like that fucking up a Pagan/Wiccan sign, he should show some respect and maybe interrest for the things he does’nt know and does’nt understand.
It’s too late now;
I took his head…
Well, it’s going to be hard to turn minds if they are removed….
Try explaining the difference between a pentacle and a pentagram. Also, remind him that the 5-pointed star has 2 different meanings when it is pointed up vs. pointing down.
When all else fails, show him the US flag. We got 50 little f–kers on it.
As Ive said before, for some people, its easier to shit on something you dont understand than it would be to ask a queston!
I don’t care if it’s a pentacle, or an upside-down pentagram, or a picture of a disemboweled baby. š If it is a symbol of someone’s belief it should be respected.
I watched the movie “lost souls” yesterday and they portrayed pentacles to be satanic…and so does mtv, on that show fear. i also read an article recently about a girl who sued her school because they suspended her for allegedly being wiccan and “hexing” a teacher. and at my school, which is catholic, a priest lectured a class about how wiccans are evil after he found out that a girl in the class (one of my good friends) was wiccan. it’s really sad that such a peaceful, loving religion is misunderstood so severly…wanna form a wiccan rights coalition? hey, if we don’t, no one will…anyone interested email me starfiend3@aol.com
I can not believe that your friend did that. I agree with you 100%. What ever people can’t understand is automatically evil. Why can’t they just accetit and move on. I mean most peple that aren’t christian are considered twisted by society, well me, and a lot of other people say that society is the one that’s twisted. So don’t ever let someone tell you off about religion. Cause they most be pretty insecure about their own, to try and destroy others.
I can not believe that your friend did that. I agree with you 100%. What ever people can’t understand is automatically evil. Why can’t they just accept it and move on. I mean most peple that aren’t christian are considered twisted by society, well me, and a lot of other people say that society is the one that’s twisted. So don’t ever let someone tell you off about religion. Cause they most be pretty insecure about their own, to try and destroy others.
Okay:
1-Pentacle:Five pointed star,wiccan,pointing upwards.Has been around since a star in the sky started being portrayed with 5 “edges”. It means it has been here before Jesus or David. Pagan sign mainly,adopted by wiccans. Nice star. It is not a Wiccan Pentagram,it is a pentacle.
2-Pentagram:Inverted five pointed star,looking downwards. Was here as long as you wanted to invert a pentacle (in fact a pentacle is a design for your “default” star). First used as a seal/symbol by the Knights Templar,who worshipped Baphomet the Horned God. Sounds familiar? Baphomet is one of 99 names of Satan in Islamic religion. I think it’s a demon’s name in Christianity. Evil? Who knows?
Then dear LaVey took the Templar’s “cross” (as they called it themselves) and wrote SATAN in hebrew around each edge of the star. This is called usually a pentagram,but without the writings too,being a simple inverted star,makes it a pentagram.Evil?
Evil is not in symbols.It’s in the man. Maybe we should consider H.R. Giger (the guy who created Alien and the bio-mechanoid art) for his twisted creations. Maybe god is evil because he created us who are so capable of evil (if you believe this creation-god thingies of course).
The guy who took your sign as evil.has serious issues,you should send him here,and we would show him the truths.Surely,it would not hurt him…probably…i mean we never lost a customer…never š
that girl could sue the school cuz wicca is a legal religion in the united states. some people are just complete idiots.
btw, i emailed you about the wiccan rights thing. if u want u can talk to me this afternoon. im at school rite now.
The bible says “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Christians say that god is about love, i say that “in the bible” god only loves the christians. I’m sick of trying to play nice with the bible thumpers. I’m not going to respect someone who “according to their bible” should kill me.
it sucks how simple icons are supposedly “good” and “evil” I’m not sure who said it, but the only evil is the evil inside the person. I don’t watch mtv, but I’ve heard about that episode of Fear and was dissapointed…yes, mtv is trying to do this whole desegragation thing, but they have to realize that that doesn’t JUST mean color! I have nothing against christians, my mum is one. People in general need to open up to new things.
hmmm if I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. “People fear what they don’t understand yet they make no attempt to understand it” and as a close friend of mine says “whoever came up w/ the ‘ignorance is bliss’ quote should be shot” I have the same problem where I live which I so fondly call the middle of no where or haides. I’m surrounded by bible thumping christians over here and have met very few who understand and accept me.
Ignorance is bliss… but only for the ignorant, and not all the time. For those the ignorant attack, or try and make feel bad, because they are part of something the ignorant don’t understand, it can be really terrible. When breaking the law, people say that ignorance is no excuse, what about in hurting others feelings? In talking about something, that you really know nothing about, only what you’ve been taught by supersitions, stories, movies…. How do you stop something like that? Something older than any of us…. Educate people about them, give Wiccans and Witches who have come out and announced themselves support, TRY to be a bit forgiving, after all, most people simply don’t know any better… not that that makes it right. I’m not sure, however, that there’s anything that can be done about a humans fear of the unknown
I am a practicing wiccian and have bee for almost 8 years. I know that something like that is vey upsetting, but all the same there is a reason why witches don’t wear or use pentagrams (inverted pentacles)anymore. The reason for that is this:
In the 19th century when whitchcraft was still looked at as “evil”, and witches still use the inverted pentacle,there was a man by the name of Eliphas Levi, who was a vey powerfull man, discribed erroneously that the inverted pentacle (pentagram) as representing horns of the goat of the witches sabbat. That was what just started it.
As a matter of fact in moddern wicca we now disbelieve and no longer use that symbol anymore due to the fact that in 1966 when the first satan church was founded the adopted the inverted pentacle as the symbol into their religion which is baphomet. An inverted pentacle sometimes with the goat head on it and kabbalistic symbols spelling “Leviathan,” an infernal surpent associated with the devil.
Therfore I can somewhat understand where your friend was comming from. The only reason for that is because I know the history.
Jaci