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		<title>How can you not believe?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t make them cry this year [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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&#8217;t make them cry this year as he started eating before they prayed.</p>
<p>I told him why don&#8217;t you pray to someone like Demeter, Goddess of harvest, and really shake them up?</p>
<p>He responded that he would only pray (and I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>I have never understood this point of view.  Of course, it also comes from the fact that I&#8217;ve seen magick work, and I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>What a lonely universe to live in!</p>
<p>Right now I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;ve done some healing candle rituals.  Even if my problem isn&#8217;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&#8217;t do it without that faith and belief.</p>
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