Our Religion is Real, Dammit!
There is a regrettable trend in Paganism today to reduce the Gods, the Faeries, the Mighty Dead, and the Spirits to convenient symbols and useful servants. To me, at least, that takes the magic right out of our beliefs, and turns us into flakes with delusions of grandeur.

As new Witches, we are fortunate enough to see and believe in and experience the magic. Far from being afraid of it, we embrace it, revel in it, get alternately giddy and awed by it. It is our birthright and our blood, and we should treat anyone who tries to reduce it to cartoonery and bunkum with the same disdain we treat anyone who says it stems from some imaginary devil in long red underwear.

The Gods, the Faerie Folk, the Honored Dead, the Spirits— they are our future, our heritage and our right. They are not myths. They are Real. We're strong enough and brave enough and powerful enough to accept that They are Real, and to be Real with them. Embrace the magic.

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