An old friend of mine was raised by one of the first converts to Alexandrian Witchcraft in the US. She had almost literally no exposure to Christianity: no Easter, Yule instead of Christmas. She went to Sunday School exactly once in her life, when for some family reason she was sent to stay with her (Primitive Baptist) grandmother for almost two weeks.
It came up at a party that she'd never even heard of the musical Godspell. A mutual friend of ours is a huge theater nerd, ran her own semi-successful theater company for a while, so she jumped up and performed most of Godspell as a one-woman show, held the whole room. She gets to the end and the raised-Wiccan girl yells "WHAT?!?!?" and damned near falls off the couch. Then says, "That's their GOD up there on the cross?!?"
Room goes entirely silent; it had never occurred to anyone in that room that you could grow up anywhere in the western world and not know that. I quietly asked, "Who did you think it was?"
She said, "I thought it was a warning! Screw up, and we'll do to you what we did to that guy!"
_Koza on August 16th, 2020 at 14:56 UTC »
Dude, this looks scary whether you're a christian or not. lol
Looks_pretty_cool on August 16th, 2020 at 15:09 UTC »
This is the Cemetery of Laprida in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Here's another picture to show the scale
InfamousBrad on August 16th, 2020 at 15:28 UTC »
True story.
An old friend of mine was raised by one of the first converts to Alexandrian Witchcraft in the US. She had almost literally no exposure to Christianity: no Easter, Yule instead of Christmas. She went to Sunday School exactly once in her life, when for some family reason she was sent to stay with her (Primitive Baptist) grandmother for almost two weeks.
It came up at a party that she'd never even heard of the musical Godspell. A mutual friend of ours is a huge theater nerd, ran her own semi-successful theater company for a while, so she jumped up and performed most of Godspell as a one-woman show, held the whole room. She gets to the end and the raised-Wiccan girl yells "WHAT?!?!?" and damned near falls off the couch. Then says, "That's their GOD up there on the cross?!?"
Room goes entirely silent; it had never occurred to anyone in that room that you could grow up anywhere in the western world and not know that. I quietly asked, "Who did you think it was?"
She said, "I thought it was a warning! Screw up, and we'll do to you what we did to that guy!"