I must have seen your posts in reverse of your posting. I totally understand. So, like I said in one of the other replies, shadow work. Why are you worried about it? Why make yourself anxious about who you are? You cannot control what others think. Be true to yourself, and kind to all. If people do not respect that….do you really want them in your life? Lady Gene
Faith can be a constrict we place on ourselves.
If you don’t want to be a Christian, then you are not one.
Break free of the chains placed on you by others and be you.
Well met. Here’s a basic ritual you can do to renounce your Christian faith. I’ve done this ritual before so I can say that it works, so long as your intentions are strong enough.
Have 1 or two pentagrams drawn on a piece/pieces of paper to help show the Christian god that you are changing your faith. Have a white candle to help both connect with the energies & convert it into protective energies so you can convert safely within the spiritual realm. Have something to represent the God, Goddess or witchcraft path you wish to take.
Start off by saying “Hear me, Christian God.” Let him know that you are leaving his faith to find a new spiritual path for you to journey under a new deity or practicing spiritual magik. Be respectful but don’t bootlick either. If you are more lunar bound, have a bowl of water that’s been blessed by the moon (leave it under moonlight for around 5-10 minutes), use that as your Pagan “baptism” so to speak. If you are not lunar, use the energies of the earth to bless the water.
Once done, let the candle burn for 10 minutes and absorb the energies of the ritual to help not only strip way the Christian energies, but to also gain new energies for your new faith.
Okay, here is my secret story, or a bit of it. I was born in a pagan family, forced to go to a Christian church, became brainwashed and tried to make it work. Finally, one day I looked up at the sky, I mean where else would one look, I stuck up both of my middle fingers and said, “If this is your idea of love, compassion and understanding, go f*ck yourself!” I don’t necessarily recommend it, but it was most effective. Never had a relapse or one moment of regret.
The only thing that matters is what’s in your heart. Let it guide your mind. Follow your intuition. Remember that in spite of all the BS, Christianity is just one of several belief systems that essentially all claim to be the right one. We were all pagan for several millennia before Christianity was even a thing. Brightest Blessings!
I would just stop practising and/or attending whatever gathering/ church you were attending before. If you have already done so, that’s as good as renouncing one faith to embrace another. The fact that you are here shows that you are contemplating alternative options. BTW welcome to our Forum. We don’t judge people by their sexuality, or by what they decide to do about it (I, for one, sure don’t). Merry meet!
Like the others said, ritual it’s not required, but if you want to ritualize the occasion, here’s a suggestion (and if this seems oddly specific it’s because I’ve dealt with this question before lol - I wasn’t born into a Christian family.)
You could cleanse yourself of your baptism in the bath or shower, during which you visualize your old baptism being washed away from you and draining away in the water…
You could say: “I wash away my baptism through the power of my Divine Will, to the Convenant of the Christian God. The path that I shall choose now will be mine alone to choose.”
You could of course change the wording in whatever way you like. That wording allows you to take your time to decide your new path, if you are not fully decided yet.