The Burning Times...
When I was much younger, I decided to investigate the Catholic Church as a possible spiritual
home. I would occassionally attend a mass and I asked some questions. I was NOT impressed with their hard sell approach. I
was also studying Wicca at the time.
It did not take long for me to decide against converting to their religion. I ain't real
big on kissing the Virgin Mary's ass nor do I see a need to. I also don't understand how she could have been pregnant and
still a virgin. It was NOT me that flunked out of sex ed.
I eventually married a Catholic which I soon remedied. He thought that marrying him meant that
I was going to convert to his faith. He failed to say as much before we got married. He also tried to force me to leave everything
to his adult children in my will. He refused to have any children by me. There were other issues as well so a divorce became
reality. My father began to call me a whore because I had divorced a man. My father has been divorced twice.
A few years after my divorce, I went to a particular town where I had once resided and tried
to get some assistance from the local Catholic charity. They were less than polite. I had never been rude to any of them.
I had never asked any assistance from them prior to this time. They did not wish to assist me because I was not a member of
their faith nor would not convert to their faith.
I got a copy of a reference Bible from them while the local Catholic priest
watched. He decided to try to convert me which did not work out like he would have wished. We almost got into an argument
in public and he proceeded to read me the riot act about the "Song of Solomon." He told me that it was NOT for my eyes and
that if I needed any marital advice then he was the man to see. How he could possibly advise anyone since he never has &
never will marry is a mystery to me. His parents were married so he knows all was his answer to that one.
I also had the opportunity to visit with one of the local physicians who promptly accused me
of stalking him. He had been my physician in the mid 80s.' I was trying to get a copy of my medical records from him. He tried
to have me arrested. He also bragged to me about how he was Catholic and a "Knight of Columbus" and about how he (and
others) had attacked me because I would not convert to Catholicism. He asked me if I was ready to convert yet?
He mocked me for wearing a t-shirt with an inverted pentagram on it in the 80s.'
He also stated that he and some other Knights of Columbus as well as a local priest had studied witchcraft. He stated that
he was more or less an expert on witchcraft and that his study group practiced it some. He mocked me some more for "hedging
my bets" by going to the occassional Catholic mass. I just shook my head. He also stated that he and his study group had been
looking for a local witchcraft practitioner then he remembered my inverted pentagram t-shirt and he got a good look at the
inverted cross hanging in my trailer. He turned a very bright red and started sputtering.
It then occurred to him that perhaps during some of my visits to his church that I had been
practicing a religion different than what they were practicing. I did worship the Devil in a Catholic Church during a
Catholic mass. I ain't embarassed about it. Then he asked me why "God" had not struck me dead for worshipping the Devil in
a Catholic Church during a Catholic mass. He actually looked surprised because I had not been struck dead.
I have also worshipped the Devil in the middle of a sermon by a Fundamental Baptist minister
in the middle of a Fundamental Baptist Church and sometimes it was on a Sunday. I have not attended a Fundamental Baptist
Church since the early to mid 80s.' If any of you have mistaken your version of Christian piety for what I am actually doing
then that is your dilemma.
I have been to very few Wicca or Pagan gatherings. I was actually turned away from one for
not being their kind of Wiccan. I was excommunicated from a Wicca Church for a. not being their kind of Wiccan b. not
being their kind of heterosexual. I never slept with either of the founders nor did I try to or express any interest in doing
so. That is not what they said. They support a particular Wiccan priest who is homosexual. They excommunicated me for being
homosexual. I refused to sleep with their gay priest (since I knew he was gay, why did he ask?). They like to preach/rant
about the "Burning Times." They threatened to make me a victim of the Wiccan Inquisition/Holocaust.
The "Burning Times" were the Spanish Inquistion & the Salem Witchcraft trials. I was accused
of being an "Inquisitor" for the Spanish Inquisition by two Wicca teachers. Their daughter figured out (eventually) that
I practice "gothic" Witchcraft. She was surprised. They all forgot that I was once one of their Wicca students and that I
know at least the little tricks that they taught me. I have read a bit more than they think though... They all think they
can psychically attack me. They are not considered Wiccan by most Wiccans and they ain't Pagan. They told me they ain't Pagan
or neo-Pagan yet the H.P. told me that HE is the "Horned God's" ONLY representative. He also confused me with a boy from Ohio
that had worked for them.
They all express a concern that the "Burning Times" might return.
I wonder if the "Burning Times" ever ceased.
Author: M. Green2007
Some "devil-worsippers" attend one or more Catholic masses just because they can. Sometimes
it is the thing to do. There is nothing like privately worshipping th Devil during a catholic mass. Peace can molest you when
you least expect it.
Author: M.Green2007
