Re: Coming out of the Broom Closet
I'm pretty lucky. My mom is unitarian and my dad isn't religious and my brother is atheist, so it wasn't really an issue with them. My dad's only worry is that having a religion will be distracting in my career, but I think it's not such a big deal anymore now that it's pretty clear that I'm not spending hours every week doing rituals.
I talk about it less with my friends...not because anyone really has a problem with it but because everyone has different views on these things. Some are atheists and a couple of those don't get religion in general so I just avoid talking about anything like that with them at all because they just don't really understand and think it's kind of illogical, some friends are liberal Christians, and a few have various other spiritual beliefs (Buddhism, general spiritualism, etc). I don't think there's anyone anymore that doesn't know I'm a pagan though.
I'm pretty lucky. My mom is unitarian and my dad isn't religious and my brother is atheist, so it wasn't really an issue with them. My dad's only worry is that having a religion will be distracting in my career, but I think it's not such a big deal anymore now that it's pretty clear that I'm not spending hours every week doing rituals.
I talk about it less with my friends...not because anyone really has a problem with it but because everyone has different views on these things. Some are atheists and a couple of those don't get religion in general so I just avoid talking about anything like that with them at all because they just don't really understand and think it's kind of illogical, some friends are liberal Christians, and a few have various other spiritual beliefs (Buddhism, general spiritualism, etc). I don't think there's anyone anymore that doesn't know I'm a pagan though.
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