Lady Dana, on her message to Christians who insist on converting her by encouraging her to find God in the Bible:
“You can tell me that you can find God in the Bible. Well, I find God everywhere. Mas malaki ang paniniwala ko sa’yo. Hindi kami ang pagano, kayo. If you can’t defend your religion, you don’t have the right to have a religion. If you limit your God in one book you will never find reality. May kulang ang Bibliya at hanapin niyo ‘yun. ‘Di pwedeng ‘yun lang ‘yun.”
Alon de los Reyes, on common questions that curious people ask her:
“’Eh di kaya mo gumawa ng gayuma? Siguro bawal ka galitin kasi may magagawa kang masama. Siguro may mga dolls ka. Kapag full moon nag-ri-ritual…’”
Melina, on people who judge Wiccans unfairly:
“It's the negative reactions that get to you really. People who judge you based on what you believe have a horrible, horrible way of making you feel less like a person. I'm not saying they all do, but those who I have had the misfortune of encountering come off as bigots. They don't consider your feelings or your reasons for being who you are—in their eyes, you're wrong and they're right and that gives them the right to lay down the law on you; excluding you from important things. They make it seem as though you will go to their hell.”
Lilian Velasco, on what Wicca has given her:
“You have the peace of mind. Prosperity is around you. Everything comes easily, everything falls into place. Kung may hardship ka ‘man, you easily get over it. You don’t have fear.”
“’Eh di kaya mo gumawa ng gayuma? Siguro bawal ka galitin kasi may magagawa kang masama. Siguro may mga dolls ka. Kapag full moon nag-ri-ritual…’”
Melina, on people who judge Wiccans unfairly:
“It's the negative reactions that get to you really. People who judge you based on what you believe have a horrible, horrible way of making you feel less like a person. I'm not saying they all do, but those who I have had the misfortune of encountering come off as bigots. They don't consider your feelings or your reasons for being who you are—in their eyes, you're wrong and they're right and that gives them the right to lay down the law on you; excluding you from important things. They make it seem as though you will go to their hell.”
Lilian Velasco, on what Wicca has given her:
“You have the peace of mind. Prosperity is around you. Everything comes easily, everything falls into place. Kung may hardship ka ‘man, you easily get over it. You don’t have fear.”
View from a non-Wiccan:
Manuel Victor Sapitula, sociologist, on the acceptance or rejection of Wicca:
“We should not think of society as one big monolith—na people think the same way, people act the same way, people have the same beliefs. Within a particular society, may nag-e-emerge na ganitong phenomenon. Hindi mo naman pwedeng sabihin na lahat pwedeng tanggapin sila, o lahat pwede silang i-reject. Very fluid talaga siya. That’s the character of human life.”
“We should not think of society as one big monolith—na people think the same way, people act the same way, people have the same beliefs. Within a particular society, may nag-e-emerge na ganitong phenomenon. Hindi mo naman pwedeng sabihin na lahat pwedeng tanggapin sila, o lahat pwede silang i-reject. Very fluid talaga siya. That’s the character of human life.”
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