I have a facebook account that is personal (aside from my Spyrit Dancer persona) and a lot of fellow webmasters and webmistresses are my friends. One of them made a comment on his status that, oh joy the religious fundamentalists were coming over for Thanksgiving, and he hoped he didn’t make them cry this year as he started eating before they prayed.
I told him why don’t you pray to someone like Demeter, Goddess of harvest, and really shake them up?
He responded that he would only pray (and I’m paraphrasing) to a God or Goddess who bought or cooked the food. If he was going to pray, it would be to a grocery store, as he has never found one he believed in enough to pray to. Through a private message, I then found out he is an atheist.
How can you not believe in a higher power? Where it is Jesus, Demeter, Epona, Budda, or Jehovah, how can you think the universe is just a random series of coincidences, we evolved to our point, and there are not deities that watch over us?
I have never understood this point of view. Of course, it also comes from the fact that I’ve seen magick work, and I’ve stayed alive, or had things happen that I believe absolutely could not have without divine intervention. That is more than enough proof for me.
What a lonely universe to live in!
Right now I’m going through a series of tests, to rule out some medical conditions. It is always scary, and my brain automatically goes to the worst case scenario. But I’ve been praying to my Goddess every day. I made myself an amethyst and rose quartz bracelet to wear to help with healing. And I’ve done some healing candle rituals. Even if my problem isn’t cured, I know that between my husband and my Goddess and God, I have someone to walk through all this with. I just couldn’t do it without that faith and belief.
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