Thread: Paganism. Morality, Stereotypes and Sun worship.

Originally Posted by Rustgold

I get the vibe that your Pagan Odinism is about a Christian objection exercise. That sums up about 98% of Paganism.

I get the vibe that you are speaking out of your ass in order to bait me into a length excersize.

I also get the feeling you either have no idea what paganism is, or you are one of those paganists that are like the metalheads that insist that pantera is the only TRUE metal.

Here's the catch, I don't care about christianity. Nor am I truly an odinist, it was an example. My anti christian emotions come from the fact that I'm of nordic descent and deeply resent the practise of the christian CHUCH OFFICIALS against my people and our practises. I'm hate the player, not the game, so to speak.

Also, Paganism isn't strictly nature worship, or rather that is a terrible term for the part in which nature is involved. Some of us do worship nature, others commune with nature and chose to become more as one with it, and others truly believe that this earth is a single divine entity.

Originally Posted by Lamperoux

I myself am a Deist (albeit closeted so I don't anger my staunchly catholic parents).
I believe, that out of all religions, paganism makes the most sense--worshipping nature rather than some man in the sky (don't even try to deny that early religions thought their god(s) were literally in the sky).
I think the greatest problem is the early christian war with paganism in Europe. Religion was a variant amount of nature worship or worshiping different nature/war gods. It became the victim of the early christian evangelism. Because they always reffered to the 'savage' pagans as the barbarians in need of enlightenment, and that was reflected in early church writings that do in one way or another build the basis for all christian denominations-- pagans have become a taboo thing.

It just takes some education for people to realize how stupid they are i guess.

Why does it make more sense to worship nature?