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"Coming out" to friends and family (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/pagan@piefed.social
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Have you come out about your faith to your friends or family? If so, how did it go? Do you plan to come out or to keep it secret, if you have not yet come out about it?

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In my experience, I find that talking about it can actually lead to a lot of good conversations and friends. One of my close friends I met during a discussion of religion, and I have another great friend who is Pagan and we have been able to bond over that, though I do also understand the wish to keep it private and respect that preference 100%.

Edit to add: community was also extremely important in a lot of pagan traditions and being open about it can help one find others to practise with.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yes to that as well, but only in an environment where there is openness and curiosity for talking about religion. There's very few people in my life where this openness exists.

    Maybe it's from me being a foreigner in a rural area of a traditionally catholic country, so I tend to be careful to not offend anyone. That said, I was spending time with neighbours the other day and to my surprise they were really fed up with the church and the priest and called it a silly show! But then it's likely that they'll be at the next procession as well, because that's the tradition. People have their fields blessed by the priest. Also, there's so much appropriated pagan stuff in these rituals that I get more and more indifferent about the name I call to the entities I worship - which then again makes any coming out pointless because I'm like a pansexual of religion, and how do you explain that to people?

    I think I have my problems with giving 'fixed' names to spiritual entities, it's like pressing them into a word form that they cannot fit into.

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