Comments on: Paganism vs. Christianity

By: dylan lc

dylan lc — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:12:03 +0000

all that stuff happend along time ago this is the now days just leave it alone and keep your negativities to yourself

By: unsure 1

unsure 1 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:11:34 +0000

all that stuff happend along time ago this is the now days just leave it alone and keep your negativities to yourself

By: wtf?

wtf? — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:18:16 +0000

Oh yeah, the whole blood and sacrifice thing.

If you kiddies did your homework, you would knw that MOST EVERY CULTURE IN THE WORLD has practiced some form of sacrifice. Yes, Pagans killed animals. They killed them in the utmost honourable of ways, during autumn when they needed to eat and couldnt support livestock. So they basically prayed over their food.

As for Christians…yeah. Your story book of donkeysh!t has plenty to say of sacrifice, tithes (wtf does god need money for?) and blood, so you are by far not immune.

My final part- every religion has had a “darker” side, depending on how you interpret it. To be mad at Christians for The Burning Times is stupid. Do research, and you would learn thaat most of the people who were HANGED (NOT HUNG) were women. Old women, and the piggy headed men didnt like them having (insert whatever here) so they demonized them to get their wordly possessions.

Few people were actually BURNED. Mostly HANGED. Do RESEARCH people, RESEARCH!

And you people call yourselves Pagan…

Half of you SOUND like a joke- you sound completly intangable and or like your a Hippie, crunchy granola New Ager.

Not all of you guys though. Many made me laugh. Most others were stupid.

I love a good book full of goatcum as much as the next person, but dude…is goatcum! what can u do with it?

By: iicookieii

iicookieii — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:08:55 +0000

This is insane.

Faith is faith- you cant prove it- case and point.
Fact is- polytheism (paganism) existed before monotheism. The Christian religion was a means of political power back in the day, although it has obviously grown and spread out, which may or may not be a good thing.

Sitting here and arguing about whos beliefs are right or wrong is stupid. Preaching is stupid. Attempting to defend yourself is pointless, because ignorence is a disease of the mind.

After the midst of all this, I dont even want to disclose my faith. All I know was that this seemed like a reasonable post plauged by immature trolls, and defenseless elves.

By: Shibo

Shibo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:41:10 +0000

I would like to say first of all I am no expert on religion, but I have done a fair amount to research on the topic and there are a few things I would like to point out…
Pagan is an Umbrella term, saying you’re Pagan is like saying you’re Christian. There are many branches of Christianity, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and so on and so forth.
People tend to confuse Wiccan with Pagan, all wiccans are Pagan but not all Pagan are Wiccan.

Ancient Egyptions, one of the earliest human civilisations were Pagan, Ancient China, Greece, Rome, Persia, all were Pagan. Pagan religions are much older than Christianity as we know it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions
This website(I know it’s wikipedia) shows a list of religion around the world, notice how many are NOT Christian?

I am not saying Christians are wrong, I’m not saying they are right. The simple fact is they are not the only religious group, their view is not the only view. There are 7 billion people on this planet, we all can’t share the exact same views and beliefs, the world doesn’t work like that.

The problem is humans have this habit of having a desire to always be right. We don’t like it when we are told we are wrong. When we meet something that is different to our own belief we automatically assume that they are saying we are wrong, thus they are wrong.

As humans we cannot say ‘This religion is evil, they are wrong and I am right’ because all we have to go on is our own faith. You don’t have to give up your faith to be curious and interested in another persons. Think about this,

In my group of friends we have a Christian(pretty sure he’s Catholic) an Atheist, a gay, a hippy,a pagan, a buddhist and a hard core rocker guy with the most amazing hair. We don’t always agree, in fact we often get into long debates on different views, I don’t see them as being evil or wrong, they simply have different views to me.

It’s ok to be different, but it’s not ok to force your view on someone else. The moment you start telling someone they are wrong, their view is wrong and your view is right (In this context) then you are the one in the wrong, because in my opinion it is morally wrong to shove your religion down others throats

By: Lydia Marie Dalton

Lydia Marie Dalton — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:11:34 +0000

My age is now 14 (as a random piece of information that you probably didn’t want to know.)
After I reviewed what I had wrote in a previous comment I am astounded at the fact that someone has actually said that my English is better than theirs, personally I think I sound horrifically limited in the vocabulary department and have actually said the words ‘I’m 13 people.’ Oh the shame. But disregarding my lack of knowledge in grammar at that particular point in time I stand by what I have said and would hope that everyone would read my previous comment and please stop arguing. There are far too many horrific things that are going off around the world, involving a terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan to be sparring over religions. Please read my other comment and take into serious consideration the things that I have said. I so hope you understand what I am trying to put across.
Many Thanks
Lydia

By: Quiet Christian

Quiet Christian — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:47:25 +0000

Well, God is often recruited as a running mate, that’s for sure.
But I think the best way to look at God is a bit more personal.
Still, I’m sure you see what I’m saying.

By: karthikk

karthikk — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:37:51 +0000

welll thank u quiet christian…well what i think is that the moment spirituality gets institutionalized like we are seeing in todays religions ,its dead..because it defines u inside a box with boundaries and according to me destiny of every human being is the same-to be eternally happy…and god is just a tool for that if at all u want to use it……

By: Quiet Christian

Quiet Christian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:47:03 +0000

On further thought, I would like to say that yes, throughout history Christians have been bloody minded when it came to people of different beliefs. But there’s not a religion in existence that doesn’t have it’s hypocrites. The problem arises when a religion (any) gains total control of a nation’s lawmaking processes.

Then you just have to wait for a hypocrite to lead that nation.
Fortunately the U.S. lawmaking process isn’t (yet) TOTALLY controlled by religion… um… you might want to thank whomever you believe in I guess… lol

By: Quiet Christian

Quiet Christian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:22:36 +0000

hmmm…
First off… Karthik, that’s the kind of post that makes people think, thank you.
Second, I have no name, you are right, no one can give you a 100% definite answer… although a lot of people would claim otherwise, that being said, I would advise caution towards ouija boards, you seem to accept the possibility of evil spirits so… it doesn’t take much thought to figure they might LOVE to mess with someone who’s made a call to “the spirits”. Not that I know anything for certain there.
Third, Bulvyne and Lee, you guys sound a lot like some of the Christians I know… But really, where’s the proof that ANY gods exist? Sorry folks, there is none… and for the atheists out there, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”