[Toughy]

I say I am a Dianic Wiccan. That does not mean I believe in a Creator/personal diety. I don't.

The (goddess) archetypes found in giving a name to the attributes of the people and the world speak to me. It gives me a way to order parts of my world. I need that because I believe I need to feed both my intellect and my emotion. Intellectual understanding and emotional understanding are two different critters.

The mind is an amazing thing. Electricity and Chemistry combined. Your brain can create a feeling of the 'hand of god' with electrical stimulation only. Your brain can create hallucinations all by it's self. I like accessing that part of my brain chemistry that elicits joy, peace, love. I can do that with any of the forms of Buddist/Hindu meditation and chanting. Meditating is not really about asking for something from someone outside your self.

I do not pray because prayer is asking for something from outside myself. All the answers are inside me. I am.

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lgbtqi folks having issues with or hating Christians is divisive because some of us are Christians???.............I for the life of me have no idea how any member of this community would want to be a follower of the God of Abraham. It makes absolutely no sense to me. But it's not my choice and it's not my problem. To each their own. It is not my place to judge anyone (within certain boundaries).

As to hate............I don't hate anyone. I repeat I don't hate anyone. I wonder how anyone can live with themselves if they live in hate. Such an awful place to be. Hate and fear go hand in hand. I am not about to give my power to hate and fear. I give my power to compassion and joy.