Repeat after me: Organized Religion sucks!

This includes Wicca.

Because most Wiccans are just puritans who are fed up with Christianity. But they try to apply the same puritanical ideas to witchcraft.
I stumbled upon this Wiccan forum and I thought I'd just entered the Vatican with all the intolerance that assailed my brain! Plus the number of know-it-alls boggled the mind.
This is why if someone were invite me to join them for their Beltane or Christmas or Hannukah or whatever celebration, I just might, and I might even have a good time, but I ain't never joining your club.
This is why I'm a solitary mystic or Pagan who studies all religions and philosophies and incorporates what fits. I may never be able to be considered an adept, but at least I'm not constrained by any rules except the one we should all be follow. Treat each other with decency and courtesy, and don't be an asshole.
If someone who is interested in your particular philosophy approaches you with questions, it does NOT behoove you to act like a snob, mmmmkay?
If it's your way or the highway, I'm hitting the highway--to hell or wherever it may lead.
The one common threat I've found in all organized religion is intolerance. Which is why I despise organized religion.

Shame Shame Shame

There are multitudes of inane idiots with computers. This comes as no surprise. The fact that they are using someone else's tragedy as a platform to spew their stupidity is also no surprise. But the Crusty Curmudgeon found it necessary to respond to their religious intolerance, for all the good that it will do. The post that I responded to is here.

According to Mike Evans of evansradio.com, who does the Hollywood report on the radio station that I listen to, Jett Travolta had been on a very strong seizure medication and had to stop taking it because it was destroying his liver. They were trying other medications but none of these were controlling the seizures. Mike did not say this, but in discussing the incident with a fellow medical professional (I'm an EMT, not a doctor, FYI) it became clear that the next step would have been surgery to separate the hemispheres of the brain. This would in effect short-circuit the detrimental electrical activity that causes seizures.
I am incredibly sick and tired of those petty individuals who are using this tragedy as a platform to bash Scientology, stating that Mr. Travolta and Ms. Preston in effect killed their son because "Scientology does not allow for the use of medication." For my own part, I have never heard any compelling reason to convince me to practice Scientology, but the fact that John Travolta and Kelly Preston did practice it did not make them mindless zombies nor unloving parents. It is a shame that many people's thoughts are still so narrow that they would rather belittle a religious or philosophical practice that they do not personally condone at any cost rather than extend thoughts of kindness to their fellow human being in their time of sorrow.