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[Amara "Bambi" Madden]

Hello. My name is Amara, but most of the people who know me call me Bambi. From what I’ve read in some post and in some peoples profiles, church members here might call me ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘witch’, ‘heathen’, etc….

Before I go any further, I should tell everyone reading this that I am wiccan. *gasp* I know, I know, ‘… going to hell… must repent… whore’, and such will more than likely be thrown at me and I may even be “shunned” by some Christians. It’s not the first time that I’ve heard any of that. If I even say a word that sounds like ‘wiccan’ or ‘witch’ in context with something completely different, conservative Christians go crazy like I’m going to put some sort of “curse” on them. So, before I go on, I would just like to say that, no, I will not place any type of “curse” or evil “spell” on anyone.

Now that that’s out of the way, I suppose the next thing to do is to say a little about myself and my views. The first thing would be my background: I was raised in a Baptist church in Texas until around the age of 7. Then my family started attending a Pentecostal church for about a year. We then went to an Apostolic church for several months before my family started attending a Methodist church, where both my younger brother and myself were baptized of our own free will.

A few years later, my family moved to India, due to my father’s company outsourcing jobs. The only way my father could keep his job was to move.

After 2 years in India, my parents decided to sent me and my brothers and sisters to live with my aunt and uncle in Tennessee. They home schooled all 8 of their children, but my parents didn’t want us to just stay at home all day, so we ended up going to the local public school(s), which was very different from the private school that we had previously attended in Texas.

After I graduated high school, I decided not to go to college right away. Instead I went on a road trip with a couple of friends that I had made in high school. After a while, I started questioning my spirituality and personal beliefs. While there are a few certain aspects that I feel to be true in the Bible, and in Christianity in general, I just had this strange feeling that there was much more truth in the world that’s not explained, or even acknowledged, by Christianity.

So, I started to learn about all sorts of religions, political views, and such. Then, I came across several books in Wicca. Unlike other, more widely spread organized religions, Wicca doesn’t have a specific set of dogmatic rules that state how you must live and act, which I found rather freeing. After several months of searching and learning, I had decided that Wicca was the path for me.

I know what you all must be think, ‘… she’s trying to get us to follow her religion and abandon our views…’, that’s is far from the truth. In fact, I personally believe that all religious views are connected and that every “deities” that are worshipped are the same deity. I also believe that this is because every civilization had different spiritual and economic needs and that, due to differences in region and politics and so forth, they all saw this particular Supreme Being in different ways. Over time, the various sacred texts that those civilizations follow become corrupted and mistranslated as it spread.

I’m sure most, possibly all, church members reading this are saying to themselves, ‘well, that’s just nonsense… you’re going to hell…’ etc…, and all that I have to say to that is simply: you’re entitled to your own opinions.


Since this introduction is running a little long, I’ll need to end this posting here. I’ll try to get ‘part 2’ of my life up, however I may end up answering questions that some people may have.

So, for now, I say “Farewell”

[Talitha]

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I'm so pleased that you have decided to renounce your evil Wiccan ways and turned to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Do you need for us to set up a Plan of Salvation for you?
For a very modest fee, I'm sure one of our Pastors will give you some one-on-one Ministering.

Welcome to Landover Baptist Church.

[Amara "Bambi" Madden]

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I'm so pleased that you have decided to renounce your evil Wiccan ways and turned to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Do you need for us to set up a Plan of Salvation for you?
For a very modest fee, I'm sure one of our Pastors will give you some one-on-one Ministering.

Welcome to Landover Baptist Church.

I'm sorry, I don't remember saying anything about "renouncing" what I believe.

[Talitha]

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I'm sorry, I don't remember saying anything about "renouncing" what I believe.

You don't have to say anything, dear.
You came here to find Christ.
It's written all over your ver first and over-long post.
Don't be shy. You are amongst friends here.

[Amara "Bambi" Madden]

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You don't have to say anything, dear.
You came here to find Christ.
It's written all over your ver first and over-long post.
Don't be shy. You are amongst friends here.

Actually, I originally came here because my sister said that she found this place, joined the webforum, and was banned.
There was one thing that impressed me about this forum, as opposed to other sites my sister like to frequent: the fact that people here use complete sentences and grammar, which is a very rare occurance on the internet.

[True Disciple]

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What are you doing here, witch? You do realize that, if it weren't for secular law, which we have to obey according to Romans 13:2-6, we would have to exert Biblical judgment over you, as Exodus 22:18 and Leviticus 20:27 command?

Hello. My name is Amara, but most of the people who know me call me Bambi.

"Knowing" in the Biblical sense, that is, I guess. Why can't you just stop whoring with demons and instead getting on your knees for Christ?

So, before I go on, I would just like to say that, no, I will not place any type of “curse” or evil “spell” on anyone.

Why should I believe that? Wiccans are known to be liars, as all satanists are. After all, Satan is the father of lies.

we ended up going to the local public school(s), which was very different from the private school that we had previously attended in Texas.

And again, proof that public schools lead children into satan worship, if not through evilutionism, then through paganism.

Unlike other, more widely spread organized religions, Wicca doesn’t have a specific set of dogmatic rules that state how you must live and act, which I found rather freeing.

That makes no sense, witch. Following a religion without a set of specified dogma is the same as following no religion at all. After all, if you now, being a wiccan, still can do just whatever you like, how would that be any different from your behavior without your "religion?" Clearly, it is all just an excuse to offer yourself to strangers during abominable pagan sex rituals.

In fact, I personally believe that all religious views are connected and that every “deities” that are worshipped are the same deity.

The ancient Eqyptians believed the sun was pushed around every day by a giant scarab. Are you calling Our Sweet Lord Jesus Christ a dung beetle?

Why don't you just abandon your silly worship of the moon, which, after all, was invented by this lunatic in the 50's, Gerald Gardner:



and instead accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Don't you realize that Hell is a very hot place, and you will be abused each day by demons with barbed tallywhackers? That's extremely painful, you know!

[Miss Cassandra]

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Hello. My name is Amara, but most of the people who know me call me Bambi.

Hello there, Sister. Great to see another wiccan visiting this forum! Is it OK if I call you Bambi as well? If you like, you might call me Moonbeam, that's how some of the girls at my coven like to call me.

From what I’ve read in some post and in some peoples profiles, church members here might call me ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘witch’, ‘heathen’, etc….

Yes, that's what they do. I've grown up in Freehold, among most of the people you see posting here, so I've grown used to being called names like that.

If I even say a word that sounds like ‘wiccan’ or ‘witch’ in context with something completely different, conservative Christians go crazy like I’m going to put some sort of “curse” on them. So, before I go on, I would just like to say that, no, I will not place any type of “curse” or evil “spell” on anyone.

I don't think they will listen to you. Many people in town seriously believe that I'm dancing naked in moonlight every night (well, at ceremonies I'm sometimes skyclad, but only at the Sabbaths), and cause babies to be born with deformities (marrying cousins is common practice in Freehold). They have missed some 2000 years of more progressive thinking.

We then went to an Apostolic church for several months before my family started attending a Methodist church, where both my younger brother and myself were baptized of our own free will.

I was baptized as well, here at Landover, not of my free will, of course. I rejected the mindless hatred of the bible when I was about 16, at which point I was excommunicated.

While there are a few certain aspects that I feel to be true in the Bible, and in Christianity in general, I just had this strange feeling that there was much more truth in the world that’s not explained, or even acknowledged, by Christianity.

"Love thy neighbour as yourself" and "do unto others as you want them to do unto you," are nice (and, of course, stolen from earlier pagan traditions), but for the rest, I never found the bible to be very suitable as a moral guide. Especially infinite punishment for finite crimes seems a little barbaric.

So, I started to learn about all sorts of religions, political views, and such. Then, I came across several books in Wicca. Unlike other, more widely spread organized religions, Wicca doesn’t have a specific set of dogmatic rules that state how you must live and act, which I found rather freeing. After several months of searching and learning, I had decided that Wicca was the path for me.

That's also what I like about Wicca. I don't have to listen to some supposed "authority," but I can just listen to the whisperings of the Mother Goddess in the wind. Do you worship the Dual Godhead as well?

So, for now, I say “Farewell”

Blessed be, Sister! I hope to see more of you on these forums!

[Amara "Bambi" Madden]

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What are you doing here, witch? You do realize that, if it weren't for secular law, which we have to obey according to Romans 13:2-6, we would have to exert Biblical judgment over you, as Exodus 22:18 and Leviticus 20:27 command?

You're not the first person I've met who feels that way and I'm sure you won't be the last.

"Knowing" in the Biblical sense, that is, I guess. Why can't you just stop whoring with demons and instead getting on your knees for Christ?

Actually, I meant people who are friends.

Why should I believe that? Wiccans are known to be liars, as all satanists are. After all, Satan is the father of lies.

I'm not sure what kind of people you've met in the past, but I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to lie.

And again, proof that public schools lead children into satan worship, if not through evilutionism, then through paganism.

It wasn't the school that lead me to my current beliefs. It was the hypocracy that I started to see around me after I graduated high school.

That makes no sense, witch. Following a religion without a set of specified dogma is the same as following no religion at all. After all, if you now, being a wiccan, still can do just whatever you like, how would that be any different from your behavior without your "religion?" Clearly, it is all just an excuse to offer yourself to strangers during abominable pagan sex rituals.

(At the risk of sounding like a cheesy, children's, after-school-special) It allows me to follow what's in my heart.
And I don't perform any type of sex rituals.

The ancient Eqyptians believed the sun was pushed around every day by a giant scarab. Are you calling Our Sweet Lord Jesus Christ a dung beetle?

I'm not calling Jesus that, but if that's what the ancient Egyptians saw and/or believed, then it has nothing to do with me.

Why don't you just abandon your silly worship of the moon, which, after all, was invented by this lunatic in the 50's, Gerald Gardner:



and instead accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Don't you realize that Hell is a very hot place, and you will be abused each day by demons with barbed tallywhackers? That's extremely painful, you know!

I, personally, don't believe in a physical Hell (mental Hell, on the other hand, is a different thing). And I can't just abandon what I believe to be true simply out of fear.

[Zechariah Smyth]

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I, personally, don't believe in a physical Hell (mental Hell, on the other hand, is a different thing).

I have never understood this position.

I am not going to use Scripture to rebuke you, but I will use a True Story© to see if I can help to open your eyes.

I was traveling and for one reason or another I stopped at a Primitive Baptist Church on Highway 82 between Waycross, Ga and Pearson, GA (sorry, I can't recall the exact name...this was during my drinking and whoring and internet pornography days).

The first thing the preacher said to the congregation was, "Do you believe in GOD?" and everyone answered loudly, "Yes, Brother!"

He then asked, "Do you believe God is REAL?" and everyone replied enthusiastically, "Yes, Brother, God is REAL!"

And then the preacher paused for a while and leaned on his podium with his head down. After a minute he looks up and asks, "Do you believe in the Devil?"

Nobody in that place was quick to answer, and if they were, they weren't very vocal about it. There was some murmuring and shifting around in the folding chairs, but not much else.

And then the preacher stage whispers, "Is the Devil real?"

Nobody said a word.

And the preacher said, "If you don't believe the Devil is real, you have no reason to believe that God is real, and if you think that Hell is not a real place, you will never make it to Heaven."

That was it.

He walked off; the whole thing took maybe 45 seconds. Shortest sermon I ever saw, and easily the most memorable.

My point is: you are walking around on the Earth, which God clearly made (Genesis 1:1), and yet you deny that there is a Hell (Genesis 1:1 again).

I said I wouldn't use Scripture to rebuke, but I will use Scripture to help. I think that deep down you are salvageable, and I would hate to see you cast out forever.

"Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." (Jude 1:13)

Powerful stuff!

Yours in Christ,

Zechariah Smyth

[Amara "Bambi" Madden]

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Hello there, Sister. Great to see another wiccan visiting this forum! Is it OK if I call you Bambi as well? If you like, you might call me Moonbeam, that's how some of the girls at my coven like to call me.

Pleasure to meet you, Moonbeam.

Yes, that's what they do. I've grown up in Freehold, among most of the people you see posting here, so I've grown used to being called names like that.

It must be tough to live around all of that intolorance.

I don't think they will listen to you. Many people in town seriously believe that I'm dancing naked in moonlight every night (well, at ceremonies I'm sometimes skyclad, but only at the Sabbaths), and cause babies to be born with deformities (marrying cousins is common practice in Freehold). They have missed some 2000 years of more progressive thinking.

There are a few people in my town who think I do the same things, but I guess I'm lucky enough not to be completely surrounded by it. It's also very tough to go skyclad where I live, especially this time of year.

I was baptized as well, here at Landover, not of my free will, of course. I rejected the mindless hatred of the bible when I was about 16, at which point I was excommunicated.

Well, my parents always taught me and my siblings that a baptism never counts unless you fully believe, which at that time I did.

"Love thy neighbour as yourself" and "do unto others as you want them to do unto you," are nice (and, of course, stolen from earlier pagan traditions), but for the rest, I never found the bible to be very suitable as a moral guide. Especially infinite punishment for finite crimes seems a little barbaric.

I also like Proverbs 15:17 Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

That's also what I like about Wicca. I don't have to listen to some supposed "authority," but I can just listen to the whisperings of the Mother Goddess in the wind. Do you worship the Dual Godhead as well?

I believe in the dualship of God, the male and female aspects of one deity. I've also never been comfortable about using a physical likeness of that deity, rather, I use abstract representations of those aspects.

Blessed be, Sister! I hope to see more of you on these forums!

Blessed be and Merry meet, Sister!

[landoverlover]

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Hello. My name is Amara, but most of the people who know me call me Bambi. From what I’ve read in some post and in some peoples profiles, church members here might call me ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘witch’, ‘heathen’, etc….

Before I go any further, I should tell everyone reading this that I am wiccan. *gasp* I know, I know, ‘… going to hell… must repent… whore’, and such will more than likely be thrown at me and I may even be “shunned” by some Christians. It’s not the first time that I’ve heard any of that. If I even say a word that sounds like ‘wiccan’ or ‘witch’ in context with something completely different, conservative Christians go crazy like I’m going to put some sort of “curse” on them. So, before I go on, I would just like to say that, no, I will not place any type of “curse” or evil “spell” on anyone.

Now that that’s out of the way, I suppose the next thing to do is to say a little about myself and my views. The first thing would be my background: I was raised in a Baptist church in Texas until around the age of 7. Then my family started attending a Pentecostal church for about a year. We then went to an Apostolic church for several months before my family started attending a Methodist church, where both my younger brother and myself were baptized of our own free will.

A few years later, my family moved to India, due to my father’s company outsourcing jobs. The only way my father could keep his job was to move.

After 2 years in India, my parents decided to sent me and my brothers and sisters to live with my aunt and uncle in Tennessee. They home schooled all 8 of their children, but my parents didn’t want us to just stay at home all day, so we ended up going to the local public school(s), which was very different from the private school that we had previously attended in Texas.

After I graduated high school, I decided not to go to college right away. Instead I went on a road trip with a couple of friends that I had made in high school. After a while, I started questioning my spirituality and personal beliefs. While there are a few certain aspects that I feel to be true in the Bible, and in Christianity in general, I just had this strange feeling that there was much more truth in the world that’s not explained, or even acknowledged, by Christianity.

So, I started to learn about all sorts of religions, political views, and such. Then, I came across several books in Wicca. Unlike other, more widely spread organized religions, Wicca doesn’t have a specific set of dogmatic rules that state how you must live and act, which I found rather freeing. After several months of searching and learning, I had decided that Wicca was the path for me.

I know what you all must be think, ‘… she’s trying to get us to follow her religion and abandon our views…’, that’s is far from the truth. In fact, I personally believe that all religious views are connected and that every “deities” that are worshipped are the same deity. I also believe that this is because every civilization had different spiritual and economic needs and that, due to differences in region and politics and so forth, they all saw this particular Supreme Being in different ways. Over time, the various sacred texts that those civilizations follow become corrupted and mistranslated as it spread.

I’m sure most, possibly all, church members reading this are saying to themselves, ‘well, that’s just nonsense… you’re going to hell…’ etc…, and all that I have to say to that is simply: you’re entitled to your own opinions.


Since this introduction is running a little long, I’ll need to end this posting here. I’ll try to get ‘part 2’ of my life up, however I may end up answering questions that some people may have.

So, for now, I say “Farewell”

Loved your intro! The words you put in our mouths so precisely describe yourself, it is obvious you are full of guilt, shame, and self-loathing. And rightly so. Please try to be a little more succinct, dear - it is painful to read in such horrific detail how someone is throwing their eternity in paradise away.

[Amara "Bambi" Madden]

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Loved your intro! The words you put in our mouths so precisely describe yourself, it is obvious you are full of guilt, shame, and self-loathing. And rightly so. Please try to be a little more succinct, dear - it is painful to read in such horrific detail how someone is throwing their eternity in paradise away.

I'm actually very happy in life, but I have been called those names by others so many times that it doesn't really bother me anymore.

[Zechariah Smyth]

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I'm actually very happy in life, but I have been called those names by others so many times that it doesn't really bother me anymore.

Then what are you searching for? You came here...we didn't seek you out.

Don't worry about the rest of it: dwell on your intent.

There is a purpose for everything. Even the most foolhardy and hell-bound scientist has a place for every beaker and Bunsen burner and frozen embryo.

And while you may not know your direction yet, God does:

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jeremiah 29:11)

Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

[Yea-tho-we-walk]

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Bambi and Cassandra, please don't take this personnal, I don't harbor any ill feelings toward either of you as a person, it's just your kind that makes me physically sick to my stomach. Well, with that said, could you do me a big favor? I am in charge of next year's 'halloween hell house' for our local Baptist church and would like some info on cauldrons. Where do you people usually go for your cauldron supplies? We are looking for a cauldron that will fit a young child to put the fear of Jesus deep into them. Hopefully the same distributor that you use for cauldrons can also give me a good deal on brooms. If you are not too busy having lesbian orgies, please help me out! YIC! Glory!

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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Hi, Bambi, the Prodigal Sister!

I'd like to join Sister Talitha in congratulating you on your decision to turn away from ridiculous, man-made "religions" like Wicca and come to Jesus, who temporarily sacrificed Himself to Himself so that He could forgive you, and anyone else who chooses to follow Him and repent, for breaking His Laws.

By deciding to follow Jesus, you escape forcing Him to resurrect you at Judgment from the peaceful sleep of death, so He can burn you alive for all eternity in His Lake of Fire! If that isn't Unconditional Love, I don't know what is!

This is wonderful! No doubt there is great rejoicing in Heaven at your decision to come to Jesus and be Saved!