for the pagans?

Question

I am a Pagan practicing the Celtic faith and my question to any Pagans who wish to answer is what drew you on to this path? In my case it was years of looking for something that made sense. How about you?

Answer 1

I think that I can say what many say, Which is that I knew I was Pagan before I realized there were others like me. When I was little, my father always had a great collection of books on Vikings and their beliefs. I always wished that I could believe the same way, but I was raised that Jesus was beyond a doubt my saviour and he died for my sins. I felt incrediable guilt for wanting to believe something else. As I got older, I started to drift from Christianity. It was only then that I was able to understand the beliefs of the Vikings and other Pagan groups that I had learned about,

I think many pagans have similar stories,

Answer 2

For me it was realizing that the bible did not contain all the answers I seeked. It actually created new questions that the religious leaders could not answer. Like if Cain and Abel were the only children Adam & Eve had, how did Cain & Abel find wives??

I also firmly believed there was femininity to the divine and my lack of deeper knowlegde of the Christian faith led me to believe that the Christian faith lacked a feminine principle, it doesn't but it's obscure knowledge.

Anyway, I don't know if I can consider myself a pagan though because all the deities are parts of One that I can not fathom so I don't try. I'm more Hermetic than Pagan. Never the less, Rock on my Pagan bretheren!!
So mote it be!

Answer 3

I am Pagan as well...Gardnerian Wiccan and I was drawn to the faith in a rather dramatic way. On Christmas Eve in fact. I'd spent years trying to be a good Christian in a Christian environment that rejected me because I am gay. I was continually told that I was irredemably fallen, unless I gave up on who I actually am, and on two occasions I endured a kind of excorcism/laying on of hands to "rebuke the demon of homosexuality" residing in me. Nothing much happened except for a smear of olive oil on my forehead and a really creeped out feeling that had I been alive just a century before, I'd be a crackling barbecue in some Christian village square. Well, my self esteem was ruined for a while too.

Needless to say, my endeavors to be a good Christian met with no success after that, and I found myself looking for a less violent and more universally accepting religion. The thing is I was put off of religion all together, because I figured if you believe in a god, you must (by default) be a violent, superstitious, and depraved person. Then I found Wicca and a strange quote by a wiccan priest who said that Wicca isn't intened to replace any religion. It's intended to coexist, and if you become Wiccan, learn something from Wicca, and then decide that being Wiccan isn't for you, then hopefully you've learned something from Wicca that will make you a better Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or whatever. THAT got my respect more than any statement by any other religious leader ever, and that's when Wicca began to fit me like a well tailored glove. Now I am still Wiccan, though I don't go for the ritualistic elements of the faith. I've never been interested in magic and or ritual, but the philosophy of it, and the meanings BEHIND the rituals are what keep me intriged and what continue to teach me lessons to this day...AND it was among Wiccans that I first heard: "It's infinitely better to kiss guys than to hit them." So in short, that's why I'm Pagan. It's not that I reject Christianity, it's just that I'd rather kiss a guy (and marry him) than condem him because his beliefs are different from mine, and I can't actually worship a god who demands that I disrespect someone who is ultimately just somebody else's kid.

Blessed be...

Answer 4

My summoning to this path came from years of dissatisfaction with other religions and my own calling to the power of Nature and all that we can not see. I came to this path because for the first time in my life, I felt a connect to a higher being no matter how many names or faces you give it.

Answer 5

Paganism , for me wasn't tied up in Dogma and contradiction, or threats or sexism. It is more gentle than christianity and a lot more tolerant. I follow a celtic Path as that is my bloodline.

Answer 6

I'm actually a former Wiccan.
I was lead down that path by a disatisfaction with the Churches I had experienced and by a call from something higher.

I was later led away by that something higher.

Blessed be you all.

Answer 7

I consider myself pagan on Mondays and Fridays, the day of the moon and the day of Friggin, the days of Diana and of Venus. Only "paganism" has given women their rightful place in society.

Answer 8

Hi!
I'm a Celtic recon.
I've always been polytheistic, but my deities have led me to CR. Nice to meet someone else on a Celtic path.

Answer 9

I was looking for peace. Within myself and everything around me. Learning to meditate and focus on the the earth, and how to center myself, at one point really saved my life. I learned that we are all connected and that spirituality is so much more deeper than I was ever taught. I'm a Jew Witch by the way.

Answer 10

Basically the same thing drew me to Wicca. Blessed be.