“I married a Witch”
After six years of marriage, two of which saw me as an associate pastor, she announced that she is, and had been a practicing Wiccan, complete with a witch name and a regularly scheduled meeting place for her coven.
— cluelessinohio
Aftermath: Three years after our divorce, my girlfriend cut her finger and joked that “maybe there’s a curse on me!”
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You should have tried to learn about her faith instead of assuming it is a bad and negative thing, it’s no wonder why she kept it a secret! You divorced her becuase of it. Who is being persecuted here?
Your bible says to treat people equally. If you can’t manage that, you probably shouldn’t be a pastor. I wouldn’t want to follow someone like you.
Wow, she was an idiot for marrying you and you’re an idiot for your complete ignorance of other religions. Wiccans don’t put curses on people you half-wit.
i think that what john and nix are trying to say is that being judgmental is wrong, the last thing that you should do is be judgmental, people who do that are just terrible terrible people. you’re an awful person!…. idiots
John/Nix/jonhdoe – what you are not understanding is that a pastor with a Wiccan wife isn’t going to be taken seriously (at best) by his parishioners. Often, the wife of a pastor is taken as an extension of the pastor. She is expected to participate in church activities and often to lead activities. Keep in mind that being a pastor is not just a job. Pastors are called by God to lead their parishioners into a personal relationship with Him; if that isn’t happening at home, why should the parishioners assume it will happen at church? Also, divorce is often frowned upon by the church, so clueless was certainly between a rock and a hard place. I feel sorry for him.
sorry mad_hatter, i guess my sarcasm didn`t come through. i was trying to point out the hypocracy of John and Nix. they make the OP sound like a bad person for daring to make a judgement about somebody`s religion, but in doing so they are judging.
1 “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
2 “For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
Taken from the Book of Matthew, Chapter 7.
I’m pretty sure that non-believers aren’t under the same injunctions as believers.
I’m more concerned about the verses in Corinthians that say Christian spouses ought not to be the ones who initiate the divorce…But I could see where his being married to a Wiccan could compromise his validity as a pastor within a church
The central issue isn’t whether she was a Wiccan. It’s one of trust. Shared values and beliefs are an important foundation for a marriage. If she hid her religion from you, the breach of trust should’ve been the issue, not her religion.