can't be reasoned with

From Personal experience with my own family... i found that the Christians are the hardest to deal with. But this just my experience...

Some are cool, My best friend and an ex BF(we are still friends, and he was catholic!) were ok with me being pagan. They even let me practice with the playing cards, they would ask me questions and i would try and answer them. I knew a Muslim, that was pretty cool about me being pagan.

My mother and people like her on the other hand, is the type to blame all non-Christians on all of the world's issues, even earthquakes. Pagans are even being targeted in other countries.

true. they do blame wiccans for a lot of problems. and my friend who is hardcore christian is okay with magic as long as i don't practice black magic.

I would just not bring up beliefs with these people. Some will never understand other beliefs, and you don't need to put yourself in that kind of negativity. Agree to disagree is all you can hope for. Don't let it get you down. We are all human after all. Let them be and have them let you be, when it comes to beliefs. Blessed Be...

He's right.

Thanks, theologist.

Well said, theologist;)

People who say such things are categorizing all the people of an entire religion as having a negative trait, that in and of itself is prejudice and entirely unreasonable.

^Agreed. Anywho, I always find it weird when people say "Oh, I've got a *insert religious affiliation/spiritual belief system* friend who's cool with me being..." It almost makes it sound like these people are being accepting despite their religion, as opposed to them just being decent human beings and being open minded. I just find it curious that people tend to feel like they need to associate acceptance within some kind of religious context as opposed to seeing the accepting person as just being a pretty awesome friend.

I hear a lot of things in a lot of places... There is a lot of bad information out there... It's up to you to be able to rationally tell the difference between good and bad information.

I'm just going to say this. I am and have been a Wiccan for a long time, and I am very reasonable. In fact I need to stop letting my friends reason me under a bus.