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When it comes to spirituality / religion / spiritual practice, I like the label SASS for myself (SASS-y as a word play), where SASS is short for Sceptic, Agnostic, Science-Seeking.
I found the label in the r/SASSWitches community on Reddit.
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- Labels can be either a good or a bad thing. They simplify our social interactions, which can be either a good or a bad thing. 5b1a1-labels-can-help-both-to-connect-and-to-disconnect
- You can call me either a non-practicing Catholic or a Catholic Witch (unless you think Catholics are pagans anyway - then it’s redundant ‘:D). But it combines with my inherited scepticism towards woo-woo. So SASS fits me well.
- I do practice some Catholic rites (ie. I observe Advent and Lent), and in Eastern European culture, Catholicism and Paganism (“folk practices”) live hand in hand anyways.
- I heard on the Witches’ Cookery yt channel (by a German lady) that being a practicing witch or pagan is different in Europe, because we have rich and living folk practices, which are practically pagan practices that survived under Christianity. Christian and Pagan holidays are next to each other in our calendars. Our kindergarteners learn pagan songs and rituals under the banner of cultural education. We just naturally live and practice paganism.
- My mother was a stern atheist and very controlling about spiritual experiences.
- With my sister, we received a Catholic education because as my mother stated, “it’s a huge part of our culture”, but she steered me away from any feelings coming from it, that could’ve turned into spiritual experiences, and was very quick to kill any interest in me towards spirituality. I started my spiritual journey in my twenties.
- I’d like to believe that due to this, I am at least less vulnerable to pseudo-sciences and scams.
- Even tho I really wish I had a stronger spiritual foundation that helps to calm a stormy heart.
- With my sister, we received a Catholic education because as my mother stated, “it’s a huge part of our culture”, but she steered me away from any feelings coming from it, that could’ve turned into spiritual experiences, and was very quick to kill any interest in me towards spirituality. I started my spiritual journey in my twenties.
- I grew up around Catholic imagery tho.
- I strongly remember a replica painting of Mary and Elisabeth in the spare room (the “cold room”) of my grandparents. When I spent nights at them during summers, I slept under this painting.
- I remember that they had a Jesus statuette and a Mary statuette side by side, and since they both were depicted young (after all, they had like, what, a 14 year age gap?…), as a child, I thought they are siblings.
- I do practice some Catholic rites (ie. I observe Advent and Lent), and in Eastern European culture, Catholicism and Paganism (“folk practices”) live hand in hand anyways.
- I heard I think in Mormon Stories Podcast that no wonder Americans have a more magical mind than Europeans. If an American has European ancestry, it means that an ancestor of them sailed off to a land they never saw, based on promises from strangers, in the hope that this unseen promised land will be better than their lived reality in Europe.
- Stephen Colbert said in one of his shows (on immigrant policies) that “My ancestors didn’t come to America because they were the best and the brightest. They came because God took their potatoes away.”