The Charge of the Goddess, the Charge of the God

In Yahoo! Religion chat last night, I found myself getting increasingly irritated with people cut-and-pasting very long passages of the Bible without asking permission to share them, while preaching loud and long and attacking anyone who disagreed with them. In spite of knowing that it would have absolutely no effect (the kind of people who stomp into a chat room and start hawking their God like a brand of toothpaste almost never listen), I was tempted to counter their religious texts with some of my own... and I was reminded of how beautiful two of the few widely accepted pieces of Wiccan liturgy, the Charge of the Goddess and the Charge of the God, actually are.

There are several versions of each, but the two that follow are my favorites...

( Charge of the Goddess and Charge of the God )

The power of these passages, spoken under the night sky and illuminated with moonlight, never fails to move me deeply.