Republican Horrified to Discover that Christianity is Not the Only Religion

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77. No need to apologize to me--I am not a Wiccan.

I'm an agnostic.

But I do hate to see a gentle, ecologically responsible religion labeled with a label that was stuck to them by persecuting Christians, who then used the smear to torture and murder innocent people.

Even in the present some Christians feel justified in harassing Wiccans and even discriminating against them or physically attacking them because they believe them to be evil devil worshippers.

You can still use the same lesson for your Christian interlocutors, though. Just tell them that your Wiccan friend would like to teach their kids to perform Wiccan ceremonies and prayers, and your Muslim friends look forward to encouraging their kids to face Mecca and pray several times a day.

Also tell them cheerfully that by being exposed to all kinds of different religious practices in school, their Christian children will have sufficient knowledge and experience to make their own choice about what to believe--or whether to follow any religion at all!

Then you could ponder for a moment and muse aloud, "I wonder whether Satanism will also be taught in schools. I do believe it is recognized as a genuine religion, so I suppose they really can't exclude it, either."