Day Six - Belief System I Was Raised With?
Full Prompt: What kind of belief system were you raised with? Do you feel it suits you, or are you making a change?
I was mostly raised Catholic. Technically, I was baptized Episcopalian though. I went to Catholic school for elementary school, all of that. My mom wasn't (still isn't) very religious, despite being a convert to the Episcopal church from Roman Catholicism, so when I was living with my mom, she didn't really make me do anything. I spent a majority of my childhood, up until I moved out to live on my own, with my grandparents and my grandma is a pretty devout Catholic. However, she was excommunicated for getting a divorce (until the last pope said divorce was permissible, under certain circumstances). She often answered my questions as a kid with "because God made it that way" and I had to celebrate religious holidays, but I wouldn't say it was forced on me all that much.
But does it suit me? No. And I came to this conclusion very young. I was pushing back on the "because God made it that way" stuff since I was around 7 years old, according to my grandma. I was always into the paranormal, which was never discouraged by my family, and I learned about witchcraft in the real life sense around 6th grade. I probably got into Wicca around 7th or 8th grade and that's something I should focus on by itself at some point.
I am not currently making a change and witchcraft was also not the catalyst for me switching religions either. I just never believed Catholic teachings at any point in my life. I thought they were cannibals and that the church I went to in Catholic school was haunted, I wasn't gonna mess with that.