I learned something this week that I wish I’d known back in high school. There are Christian Witches. Like, witches that follow the Christian God and Jesus and all that. Who have evidence from the original Greek and Hebrew texts as to why it’s not blasphemy. This information would have been WONDERFUL to know when I was a teenager and questioning my beliefs! Don’t get me wrong, Christian witches, are generally still in the “broom closet” like I have been with my family, but all the guilt, all the feeling of being out of place. It would’ve been so much easier for me mentally to know there were others like me! 

So, for anyone out there who, like me, were raised in a Christian household, I’m sure you understand what I went through with the guilt and what not of embracing witchcraft. And I suppose that me not knowing Greek, or Hebrew I really can’t say for sure that what I’ve been learning is true or not, but it certainly feels right in my soul, not just with my religion, but my sexuality too. And for those that don’t know I am bisexual.  

I discovered a person on TikTok by the username of Spirituali.Tea, and I’ve been binging her videos for two days. Now I haven’t been able to verify it yet, though I am going to be asking a pastor I know in the very near future, but according to her whenever the Bible talks about “witchcraft” in modern translations, what the Greek was actually saying should translate closer to “pharmacist”. Basically, don’t do drugs kids. The homosexuality places should translate more along the lines of don’t crest on your spouse (sex out of marriage in general from my understanding), and no sex with young boys (pedophilia is bad). For the non-binary and transgendered folks, you aren’t talked about at all from my understanding, and some people think Jesus (or Yeshua) was actually non-binary, and they equate his miracles to magic (which, let’s be honest, that’s fucking true, and I never thought about that!). Spirituali.Tea also talks about how King James (the reason for the KJ translation of the Bible) shoved stuff in there to suit his beliefs and fears, like witches being evil. 

There is just SO much to explore and look into, like the difference between El and Yahweh, Lady Sophia being the Holy Spirit, the books of the Bible that got taken out. Just so much, and before I go more in depth there is a lot of various research I need to do and I want to talk to my sister’s pastor (who is lesbian, so good place to start) about how she looks at some of these passages and translations. This just makes me feel validated in a way I didn’t know I needed! 

I’m still very much a primarily Norse witch, I am very much drawn to the Norse gods, but I still hold some Christian values because that’s just how I was raised. It’s nice to know that maybe I can someday come out to my very Christian family (besides my sister, and now my grandma knows too) with actual evidence as to why I’m not going to hell, and they don’t need to “save my soul”. 

On a totally unrelated note, I also learned today that my father’s sister doesn’t like my son’s name because she thinks it’s too close to Lucifer. Aleister wanted to name him Lucifer, so my mother came up with a compromise. I now sort of regret not saying “fuck it” and just naming the kid Lucifer! Supposedly (haven’t looked it up yet) Lucifer is actually a Greek god, not a fallen Angel, and Satan just means “adversary”, so screw her! 

Do we have any Christian Witches here? I’d love to learn from you all!