Paganism and its entirety!

[Pagan4life]

I pissed ( ) about no one really knowing about paganism and yet they go ahead anyways and judge them! It makes me so sad not many people keep and open mind! Its driving me insaine! Tell me, are you pagan or not, how do you feel about paganism in its entirety?

:-Pagan4life

[koan]

It might be more productive in eliciting replies if you tell us about your beliefs. This almost feels like a test.

I am considered a pagan by others but wouldn't really call myself one.

[anastrophe]

if not for the pagans, there would be no christmas or easter. nobody knows when Jesus. H. Christ was born or died, not to the day. christmas is merely the pagan rituals and celebration of the winter solstice adopted out of expediency, and easter is the merely the vernal equinox celebration.

[capt_buzzard]

Pagans, there are loads of them in Ireland

[BTS]

Which form do you do you prescribe to? There are many.

[BTS]

Maybe he only comes out at nite????

[koan]

I've known a number of Wiccans. Never got into it because I abhor ritual. Generally really nice people but often obsessed with love spells, which is never a good idea.

[BTS]

Originally Posted by koan

I've known a number of Wiccans. Never got into it because I abhor ritual. Generally really nice people but often obsessed with love spells, which is never a good idea.

I worked with a gal that was one of the nicest people in the world.
People called her "Witchy Poo".
I never put the 2 together for the longest time.

We worked together alot in the same dept. I was a maint. tech and she was a welder.......
ya never know.
And I think that is how it should be.

[telaquapacky]

Originally Posted by anastrophe

if not for the pagans, there would be no christmas or easter. nobody knows when Jesus. H. Christ was born or died, not to the day. christmas is merely the pagan rituals and celebration of the winter solstice adopted out of expediency, and easter is the merely the vernal equinox celebration.

Straight ahead, Paul! And easter is more than a marking of a solar cycle event. The first Sunday after the vernal equinox was the worship day of Ishtar, also called Ashteroth, Isis, Aphrodite (or was it Venus?). Ishtar was the Babylonian version of the Pagan fertility goddess. Ishtar is where the word "Easter" comes from. That's why Easter celebrations include bunnies (famed for fecundity), eggs (symbol of fertility) and other fertility fetishes. Christmas and Easter are only the tip of the iceberg of pagan customs imported into Christianity by the church of the west.

The gripe I have with Paganism is that in my faith, Christianity, Paganism has been brought in by force, so that today, mainstream Christianity is so polluted that it has mostly lost it's purpose. What is more, the branch of Christianity which brought in all this Paganism wants to rule over the whole Church and force everyone to think and worship as they do (which I do not) and be under the kingly authority of their leader. I have a problem with that.

[capt_buzzard]

Jesus' final night with his desciples was a Passover observance, which He told them to repeat each year ''till He comes'' (1 Corinthians 11-26) Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna in the mid-century, testified that the Apostle John had taught him to commemorate Christ's sacrifice through the annual Passover service. But within a generation of John's death, some had begun to oppose this apostolic practice.Eventually, as more and more leaders around the Roman Empire found it convenient to profess ''Christianity'', they found it increasingly desirable to purge their ''Christianity'' of its authentic Passover heritage and substitute an Easter Sunday observance.