[The word pagan has] always been pejorative…cultural baggage, I’m sure… [I’ve heard it] used in a way that was hostile to convictions that I hold… [Paganism was] linked, in my head, with Satanic stuff… The two are not that separated out… That becomes problematic… [But recently,] I did some research… [I learned that] it’s about spirituality…[and] not totally foreign to our [Christian] tradition… [Now, it’s] not as negative as it once was, in my head. [Paganism and Satanism are] not as closely linked.

[The firmness of my beliefs] does not give [me] the right to trample over the convictions of another. [I can’t say that because] I didn’t pass through it, it didn’t occur, or has no merit… It’s absurd…[to think I] could set parameters as to where the spirit will and will not blow… The spirit of God manifests itself in many different ways to people.