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My Conversion to Catholicism | New Age Witchcraft to Jesus

#catholicism #catholicconvert #conversion In this video, I discuss how I left new age/pagan witchcraft for Catholicism. Instagram: rakellelisamarie I did not grow up Christian. My mom was baptized Catholic, but she was not confirmed. We were not baptized— myself, my brother or my sister. I know we went to church at least on occasion when I was a child. I remember maybe visiting one church, couldn't tell you which one it was or anything like that. So just not church people. But I knew who the Christian God was. I knew who Jesus was through culture. We were not a churchgoing family or anything like that, so I did not get into spirituality or religion until my mid 20s when I was doing some soul searching after leaving college and just finding myself very lost in the world. I had minored in women's and gender studies in college. So I was a big time feminist. I ended up being introduced to paganism and witchcraft through Wicca, which I didn't end up practicing. If you don't know, Wicca is an earth-based religion, so an earth-based spirituality, earth-centered. I’d been a long time feminist, and I had found this religion or this spiritual practice that fit very well into my feminist, leftist politics. I was reading tarot. I was going to a spiritualist church during the summertime, which is a church where there are mediums and they will talk to the dead and they will give you messages from the other side. So I was just into a lot of different things. I identified as a goddess worshipping pagan for about four years. And then last year in the summer, so summer of 2020, I had been watching Doreen Virtue's channel. She was interviewing someone named Allie Beth Stuckey. She's an evangelical conservative Christian. So she talks a lot about politics. She also talks about theology from a Protestant perspective. And so I had watched this interview and I don't really know what specifically interested me about it, but I decided to go listen to more of Allie’s podcast. So I ended up changing a lot of my political views and at the same time finding myself more and more open to learning about Christianity and Jesus. So I got myself a Bible to read, not expecting to become a Christian, but just to look into. I wanted to understand more about this Christian worldview, this Christian perspective on morality and sexuality. So through that process, though, I ended up doing a lot of research. I'm a student at heart, so I do a lot of research. I was looking up stuff about the historical evidence for the resurrection. And through that I believed that the resurrection had happened. I felt that there was enough historical evidence to believe that this happened. And then once I believed that it became, OK, what am I going to do with this? Because if this is true, then my whole life has to change. And it's not just that it has to change, but that I want it to change and that I want God in my life, that I want Jesus in my life. I think that Jesus and God know better than I do about how to run my life. Clearly, up until this point, I have not done that great of a job. And what I mean by that is that I was a cynical, joyless, purposeless, selfish human being. Up until that point, I did not think there was anything really wrong with that. And it was not until I started watching Christian movies like The Case for Christ, for example, where I would just find myself bawling my eyes out, just thinking about how much this person, Jesus, loved me enough to die for me, even though I'm so unworthy, even though we’re all so unworthy. I guess I had a heart change. I feel that Christ gave me a new heart and I've never been as happy as I am in my entire life, so there's that. OK, so then I started going to a nondenominational evangelical church here in my town. I was going to a weekly women's Bible study. And I guess it just didn't take me very long to realize that that was not the place for me. The more I looked into Catholicism, I just fell in love with it. I believed that it was true. The thing about Protestantism for me is that everybody interprets the Bible differently. And it's very hard to build your life on a strong foundation if the foundation is constantly shifting underneath you. So with Protestantism, they have some positives like they're really good at being in the culture without being of the culture. I like their music and they're really good at evangelization. They're really good at helping you feel the love of God, which is wonderful. But I need something a little more concrete. And that's what I really like about the Catholic Church. Their moral and social teachings are concrete. They do not change just because the culture is changing. It’s not just that, it’s the Tradition. It's the Saints, it's Mary, it's the Eucharist. It's being a part of a 2000 year old church. I love it and I love talking about it. I want to talk about it every day. So, here I am!