PAGANS ARE NOT FUCKING ANTISOCIAL MISANTHROPES
Leave it to the genius of my stepdad to once again make me feel like a miserable person.
He pulled me aside today to remind me of a few things:
1) I owe him a few month's worth of car payments.
I know this, I just haven't had the money to pay him for a while. I have nothing against paying him.
2) I need to submit my FAFSA so I can keep getting financial aid.
Again, I know. I have nothing against doing this.
3) I still need to do taxes (I don't owe money yet, so they aren't gonna come after me).
Nothing against doing this either.
4) My "Pagan thing" is pulling me into a state of apathy, misanthropy, procrastination, and general bad habits, and people "in the society of this day and age" look upon Pagans with disdain so I need to get out of it.
WHAT??!!
I don't care if he says he's agnostic... he must have some sort of Christian ignorance-based-intolerance going on inside him, because that's something I only hear the more close-minded of Christians say. (No offense meant to the Christians in my life, I'm referring to ones who approach me or address me in chat.)
He didn't take into account that I've been an irresponsible shit for years now, before he was even in my life and that the "Pagan stuff" only recently emerged reflecting a recent interest in it. Or more simply, I WAS LIKE THIS BEFORE I BECAME A PAGAN.
I don't care if he calls me irresponsible, I know I am. I don't care if he points out my fatal flaws of procrastination, misanthropy, and apathy. I know what kind of person I am, he doesn't need to remind me. But he has no right to blame my generally negative lifestyle on my peaceful, stress-relieving, earth-loving religion.
"You know what people think of Pagans, right?" He asks me. "Yeah, Satanists," I tell him even though in my head I'm telling him "Um... no? I have no fucking clue what people think of the path I've chosen. I'm completely ignorant to the world around me." Is it that hard to fathom that I don't give a flying fuck what people think about me? I know (ignorant) people associate Pagans with Satanism and Animal Sacrifice. That hasn't stopped me from being a Pagan, now has it? If I cared what people thought about me, I'd probably be a proper Average Joe American with nothing deviated about him (out of fear of being ridiculed for wearing the wrong color shirt). But that's not who I am. I'm stronger than that.
And one last thing, he also said "that thing you and Meranda are getting into" before bringing up Paganism. He really knows how to touch on my fucking sensitive spots, doesn't he? Meranda has nothing to do with my Paganism, and I'm not bringing her into it either... so leave my fucking love life out of this.... ugh. He pisses me off too much.
He pulled me aside today to remind me of a few things:
1) I owe him a few month's worth of car payments.
I know this, I just haven't had the money to pay him for a while. I have nothing against paying him.
2) I need to submit my FAFSA so I can keep getting financial aid.
Again, I know. I have nothing against doing this.
3) I still need to do taxes (I don't owe money yet, so they aren't gonna come after me).
Nothing against doing this either.
4) My "Pagan thing" is pulling me into a state of apathy, misanthropy, procrastination, and general bad habits, and people "in the society of this day and age" look upon Pagans with disdain so I need to get out of it.
WHAT??!!
I don't care if he says he's agnostic... he must have some sort of Christian ignorance-based-intolerance going on inside him, because that's something I only hear the more close-minded of Christians say. (No offense meant to the Christians in my life, I'm referring to ones who approach me or address me in chat.)
He didn't take into account that I've been an irresponsible shit for years now, before he was even in my life and that the "Pagan stuff" only recently emerged reflecting a recent interest in it. Or more simply, I WAS LIKE THIS BEFORE I BECAME A PAGAN.
I don't care if he calls me irresponsible, I know I am. I don't care if he points out my fatal flaws of procrastination, misanthropy, and apathy. I know what kind of person I am, he doesn't need to remind me. But he has no right to blame my generally negative lifestyle on my peaceful, stress-relieving, earth-loving religion.
"You know what people think of Pagans, right?" He asks me. "Yeah, Satanists," I tell him even though in my head I'm telling him "Um... no? I have no fucking clue what people think of the path I've chosen. I'm completely ignorant to the world around me." Is it that hard to fathom that I don't give a flying fuck what people think about me? I know (ignorant) people associate Pagans with Satanism and Animal Sacrifice. That hasn't stopped me from being a Pagan, now has it? If I cared what people thought about me, I'd probably be a proper Average Joe American with nothing deviated about him (out of fear of being ridiculed for wearing the wrong color shirt). But that's not who I am. I'm stronger than that.
And one last thing, he also said "that thing you and Meranda are getting into" before bringing up Paganism. He really knows how to touch on my fucking sensitive spots, doesn't he? Meranda has nothing to do with my Paganism, and I'm not bringing her into it either... so leave my fucking love life out of this.... ugh. He pisses me off too much.
posted by Artifex at 6:32 PM
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