Religious/Spiritual Oppression is
Religious/Spiritual Oppression regardless of what you cosplay it as.

Witches & other Pagans should know better than anyone how dangerous that road is!

I said what I said. You can sit with it.

Donna AlaraŚura Masara-Stevens,
Pagan Priestess
Ordained Minister

It's oppression wearing the style and brand you like that makes you feel good.

And I'll feed you the hard to swallow pill:
There's no spiritual evolution, ethical superiority, or moral clarity found under that this megaphone soapbox.

If we claim to value autonomy, consent, sacred space, spiritual sovereignty, and bodily agency, then we can’t selectively abandon those principles when it’s emotionally convenient.

That’s not what liberation, or healing looks like.
It's definitely not resistance and it's not justice.

But trauma doesn’t give us a moral exemption to cheer for oppression when it’s pointed at someone else.
Our trauma explains our emotional reaction.
It doesn’t justify celebrating someone else’s spiritual violation.
Healing isn't becoming the thing that wounded you.

A lot of us were harmed by rigid dogma, spiritual & physical abuse, SA, shame culture, control, and hypocrisy.
I repeat, the Witch Wound is real and I personally believe we all carry some form of it.

I say this as someone who deeply understands religious trauma and the Witch Wound.

The Witch Wound is real!
I understand why some of you feel satisfaction watching protesters storm a church.
A lot of us carry real religious trauma.

because you disagree with them politically or morally, you have just set the precedent that the same can be done to you when the political winds shift.

And historically? They always do.
Witches and Pagans especially should understand that!

None of that magically turns coercion into justice.

Religious freedom either applies to everyone or it applies to no one.

Once you normalize storming houses of worship, chanting people down, and intimidating religious gatherings

Oppression doesn’t become ethical because we dislike the target.
You don’t get to say, “It’s okay because it’s Christians.”
“It’s okay because churches have power.”
“It’s okay because I was hurt by religion once.”
“It’s okay because I agree with the protesters’ politics.”

It IS me supporting Spiritual/Religious worship freedom and gathering as a human right, and a civil right, not just a private property right or a Constitutional Right.

This is not me supporting that pastor/minister/reverend whatever title he bears.
It's not me supporting any unlawful ICE behavior that allegedly taking place.
It's also not me supporting unlawful migration or any alleged fraud.