Unpacking some Religious Baggage

I keep finding myself on odd sides of religious debates. For those who don't know, I was raised old-school Methodist, went through Lutheran confirmation classes, attended but was not baptised in a Southern Baptist church and went fundamentalist in college. I lapsed out of fundamentalism and embraced my paganism about 4 years ago.

So, I told you that to tell you this. Like I said, I keep bumping my nose on ideas, running into Christians who violate every aspect of Christianity I was raised with and yet still call themselves such and evince fruits of the spirit in their lives.

I got to thinking and decided to unpack what I believed of Christians and Christianity WHEN I WAS ONE. This is not Angel-the-Pagan slagging off. This is Angel-the-Fundamentalist going on about what God requires of His people. And believe me it's a lot more than Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

What I believe about Christians and Christianity now is another post.
So, a cut because this is going to get long.

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BPAL: Chimera and Incantation

Chimera: (Bewitching Brews) The fiery, volatile scent of cinnamon, thickened by myrrh, honeysuckle, and copal.

Vial: Cinnamon!

Wet: Sweet cinnamon and copal

Drydown: Hard copal with myrrh, very resiny. Sweetens and thickens but still resiny. Very resin and incense smelling. Honeysuckle and cinnamon vanish

Dry: Copal. It's nice but not something I'll wear often.



Incantation (Bewitching Brews) A profound and entrancing potion. Deep, wispy, and unfathomably dark: vetiver, dark woods, crumbling and burnt black sandalwood and a drop of lemon rind.

Vial: Sharp and dark, some pine scent

Wet: It smells like Irish spring soap with pine

Drydown: lemon-pine and weeds. Vetiver always goes weedy on me. Goes to a piney herbal scent with burnt undertones

Dry: Still smells like Irish Spring. Blech.