Hi Hammer nice to see you dear! For the most part I have had really good experiences with people of Christian Faiths but for obvious reasons I stayed in the broom closet to avoid confrontation with them. As for my workplace, I work for a large corporation that wouldn't dare discriminate my religious background because of our HR department and fear of lawsuit if they discriminated against me.
I generally keep a low profile when I talk to people face to face if I don't know them, but online I'm very open about my religion. When Yahoo had their chatrooms I would usually talk in the Pagan rooms and there would be Christians that would come in to harass Pagans and threaten us with eternal damnation if we didn't change our ways. Since they came to our Pagan rooms I thought it was only fair to go to Christian rooms and identify myself as a witch. Well as you can imagine I didn't get the greatest response from the room but some of the Christians were kind. Strangely, there were other witches in the Christian chatroom besides me and I had some of the best conversations of Witchcraft in a Christian chatroom, which was so ironic. Another strange thing that happened in the Christian chatrooms was when people were publicly condemning me in the chatrooms other Christians would secretly private message me to tell me their sister is a witch so they support me. Some that criticized me in public would also secretly text me asking if I could contact their deceased relative, it was just so strange and bizarre lol.
I loved going to Christian online chatrooms, because Christians were brutally honest about their feelings towards witches and I didn't want to get complacent in the real world thinking everyone accepts witches. It was a good wake up call for me and I received a death threat from an alleged Christian preacher from Nigeria that said he kills witches. He really wasn't from Nigeria though, he really lived in Atlanta Georgia, but it certainly was a wake up call to be careful to strangers I meet in person or online settings.
I think the scariest encounter I had was a family night out with a coven I frequented called the order of Syblings led by High Priestess Morgana. She was very public about her religion and like me, wanted to give people a chance to talk to a witch. She had a public site on Facebook page and advertised that she was going to hold a family night out for parents and their kids to enjoy some pizza and video games at a Mr. Gattis pizza establishment in our area.
Well wouldn't you know it? Somehow a Christian lady saw her announcement and also lived in our local area and was extremely upset with us. Since Morgana knew I had a Christian background she asked if I contact this lady that was threatening and harassing her, so I got her information and instant messaged her.
In my conversations with this Christian lady she didn't want devil worshipers in her small town and I should be ashamed of myself for supporting witches. She said she was coming to Mr. Gattis restaurant to set them witches straight, but I politely interrupted her and told her that this was a non religious event Morgana was hosting and it would be inappropriate for her to do so. Morgana's intent for the night was to provide a safe family night out for parents and their children to spend quality time with each other in a safe environment.
I told this lady she was welcome to attend our function and to bring her children but she can't talk about religion because this is not what this night is about. If she or her congregation had problems with witches I would personally schedule a time to meet with their them to address their concerns, but she refused.
She said she was going to gather her entire church congregation to protest and stop us witches from entering the pizza establishment. I reminded her that there are children that are coming with their parents to eat pizza and would she really assemble an angry mob to endanger children's lives? She replied "You witches will be stopped!"
This was a scary time because I didn't know what was going to happen but everyone in the coven decided we couldn't be afraid of terroristic threats so we went to Mr. Gattis as planned. To my relief, no angry mob shown up and the parents and our children got to spend quality time as a family.
Well Hammer, these are just a few horror war stories I had, but it didn't make me lose faith in humanity, because there were so many good people in my life from so many different faiths including Christians. Thanks for letting me share this story with you!