So the Wife and I are Wiccan as you might be able to guess from the website and other posts. For the majority of our lives we were of a different faith. Supermomma’s family all still belong to that particular version of Christianity. Now I have no problem whatsoever in the personal choice that people make when it comes to their spirituality. I am a firm believer in whatever floats your boat and gives you that sense of peace that we all long for in our lives, is exactly what we should be looking for. I have a very strong belief as well that regardless of the history you may have with another religion, that it is never ok to bash it. We walked away from our former church because we did not believe in the doctrine. We did not believe in the core teaching of that faith and found it to be depressing and demoralizing. Not to mention that many of the people we went to church with are about as pretentious and self-righteous as I have ever seen. Now that is the people, not the church. Our former church is a decent enough organization overall and like I said I just do not have anything bad to say about it. It is a faith thing. Therefore, now that that is out of the way let me proceed with the events of Christmas Eve.

Each year on Christmas Eve Supermomma’s family all gets together for a family gift exchange. Never in the course of the evening is Christ mentioned, nor does anyone ever talk about what Christmas is supposed to mean to them. So as always we of course go because for us it isn’t about Christmas obviously, it is about being with your family. The people who are SUPPOSED to love and RESPECT you. Now, I do not think for one second that family will like the things that other family members choose to do at all times. I am not naive. I can also understand someone saying, “Why would you do that?” or “What made you decide to do that?” What I do not understand and never will is why someone would spend an entire day thinking up a way to attack family members because you disagree with them.

Towards the end of the evening, My Brother in law who had been planning this all day, decided to ask my wife, in front of her family, “Why are you here?” He was asking this because we are Wiccan and do not celebrate Christmas. Supermomma informed him that we were there because it was a family event, we were just spending time with family, and that just because we do not celebrate Christmas does not mean we cannot respect the rest of the family and spend time with them. He proceeded to tell us that we should stick to our religion if we are going to say we believe in something. Well the whole thing went downhill from there. Next thing you know were being attacked from every which angle. Not once did we bring up being Wiccan or anything else it just came at us out of nowhere.

I personally always expected this to happen but not to the extent that it did, nor at an annual family function. Now we are placed in a position where all five of our kids do not want to go back there. They do not understand why we were attacked when frankly we are closer as a family today than we ever were when going to our former church that was supposed to be all about the family unit. Our kids are thriving in our faith, they love the stories, they love asking questions and talking about things. That was something that was greatly discouraged in the former church. So now, we again have to examine the people in our lives. I already do not have a relationship with my family, and now the wife’s is gone. Very quickly, my children are losing people who are supposed to love them and accept them because they are family and I have no understanding of that. So here are some questions that I would love one of the people that attacked us last night to try and answer, and that includes my mother and father in law, my brother and sister in law and their oldest child.

1.      You are told, “Thou shalt not judge.” So then, why did you all decide to judge us last night? By default, you are already wrong in your actions according to the religion you practice.

2.      We were at the event to be with family. You are there to celebrate Christmas, the birth date of Christ. Christ was not born in December, which is a historical fact if he even existed. You are celebrating a holiday that was taken over by the early Christian church to discourage pagan practices of celebrating the Winter Solstice, again a fact, so why are you there?

3.      Christ taught that people should love each other. What part of that were you doing last night?

4.      Not once since we admitted our change of religion have we told you that you were crazy or nuts to continue as you are. Where do you get off doing that to me when again your “savior” taught that you should “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

5.      For a believer of a religion that has been HEAVILY persecuted over the last 180 years, you would think that you would have learned a little more tolerance for people different from yourself. Wouldn’t you?

So the long and short is that instead of a decent time with family, the night ended terribly. We will not being going back anytime in the foreseeable future. We have a beautiful family that we have made for ourselves. We have five great kids that we love and who love us. We are a strong family unit. We have a beautiful set of brothers and sisters in our coven that have treated us far better and with more love than either of our families have our entire lives. Soon it looks like we may be welcoming some new seekers into our little group. I look forward to whomever that might be and getting to add an addition to the family.

We had a wonderful Yule ritual with both our coven and at the Norse Wolf Pack event over the weekend. Our children got some great gifts and we loved every moment of it. I hope you all had a wonderful Yule and I wish you all the best for this coming New Year.

Blessed Be,

Wookie