does anyone know what is the pagan religion all about??

Question

hi, i would like to know about pagans, please tell me all you know about it, what they believe? is there something different they do?and much more, thax!

Answer 1

Pagan is a word used to describe any religion that does not worship the "one" God, like the ancient religions of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, Polynesians, Aborigines, Celtics, Vikings, Chinese, etc. this includes mythology and so called witchcraft or Wicca, pretty much worship of Gods, Goddesses, even nature and elements

Answer 2

There is no" pagan religion", like "Methodist religion. " It is a reference by us Christians, to the religions that existed before Jude ism, Buddhism, Christianity. The people worshiped nature,often considering themselves to be one with the Gods and natural world. They often worshiped many Gods or deities, some of the deities were the water or the sky, or animals, or plants. The believers thanked the being for its sacrifice of its life to feed or clothe a person. Our Native Americans believed in such. The people who built Stonehenge may have believed in such.
Other religions had gods with special powers, like the ancient Roman or Greeks.Mercury the Messenger, for example, was a God to the ancients. The ancient Aztecs may have believed in stern Gods who required sacrifice, of personal wealth or of life. The previous two might have had great knowledge of the solar system, may have built temples to it, or the other theory, that the buildings/arrangements of rocks were observatories.
The pagan beliefs existed since the beginning of man,the Christian religion is less than 2000 years old, Jewish religion much older,beyond the age of Moses.
There are several good books on the history of religion out there, a good one in novel form is Michener's "The Source".
A lot of our rituals that we hold dear came from pagan beliefs. The Yule log to celebrate the new year, the longer the log the people could get to burn, the better the year..Throwing rice at a new bride is an old fertility ritual. It is said we chose December 25th to celebrate the birth of Christ to overshadow a pagan ceremony. Our Halloween,a pagan ritual to scare off evil spirits.
In some countries, as well as this one[US] religion can be a curious blend of pagan ritual and christian ritual, as is our own.
Read the DaVinci Code. It is very interesting. It is about the history of modern religion, set in a novel.
Modern people practice witchery, believe in Mother Earth, not mixed in with modern religions.

Answer 3

First I must ask you to remove any preconceptions you may have about pagans. The definitions given are A. Non-christian, jew or muslim; ie someone who follows a polythiestic religion. From this definition, shinto-hindu-ancient american beliefs-ancient egyptian and greek/roman beliefs. This definition seems to fit well then i found this one; "One who has no religion" well we know that is an athiest so that definition is wrong. "A non-christian religion". This definition is most compatable with conservative america. If this were true that would mean that Jews, Muslims, Islamists, Mormons, Menonites, Amish, Bhuddhists, Hindu, Shinto and ancient religions are all considered pagan... obviously there are conflicting definitions here. What a pagan really is, what is was initially used to describe was the roman/greek beliefs of multiple dieties, sodomy and things of that nature. Using pagan to describe a non-christian is not only offensive, but unbelievably ignorant.

Answer 4

Whoo! You chose a doozy, I'm afraid this may get rather long. *g* First, please try to ignore the xtian Pagan-bashers, a few of which have already shown up, I see.

There is no one Pagan religion. The people who refer to themselves as Pagans are usually following some type of pre-christian or pre-judaic spiritual path. I use the term spiritual path instead of religion because not all Pagans practice a formal religion. Many are simply solitary nature-worshipers or practitioners of magick.

Some formal Pagan religions are well-established. Among them are Wicca and Asatru (fairly recent in the form they are practiced now) and Hinduism, Buddhism and Shinto, (all very old).

One notable thing you may notice about Pagans is that they do not prostelytize or try to convert everyone they meet, although they are generally quite willing to answer sincere questions about thier path. You may also notice they often have thier noses stuck in a book. (The one stereotype about them that is true. LOL)

For detailed info, a good place to start would be Wikipedia and Google, also check out Yahoo groups. Also check out your local library and bookstores.

Answer 5

When people say "Pagan" with a capital P, they generally mean "neo-Pagan", which is a religious movement made up of a diverse group of individual religions. Usually (not always) those religions are based on, are survivals of, or are reconstructions of pre-Christian European religious beliefs.

They do have some things in common, though not every religion that falls under the category "Pagan" will have every one of these.

1) Divine feminine. Their concept of deity includes female aspects. That might mean they worship one mother Goddess as creator, or it might mean they have goddesses as part of a polytheistic group of gods.

2) Immanent divine, which means that they believe the divine is to be found within the world around you, not outside of it or separate from it. In some cases, this can be construed as pantheism or animism. It also means they view each person as a manifestation of the divine.

3) Yearly holidays are tied to the cycles of the seasons. This is true of most other religions as well; however, in most neo-Pagan religions, this connection is overt and celebrated. It's the turning of the season that is itself being revered.

4) Highly individual, honor-based system of ethics, rather than a set series of "rules".

Pagan groups tend to be more egalitarian in terms of gender and more tolerant of different sexualities than some other religions.

Answer 6

I myself being pagan, I find that I may be the right person to answer this question. Those of you who are not, you probably have no flippin idea what you are talking about.

Okay, Paganism is basically belief and trust in nature. There are hundreds of different forms of paganism: exp: gardenarian, Dionysian, Celtic. etc. In most paganistic religious systems there is a goddess and a god. Most pagans have their own personal deities, (gods). Paganism is not satanism or an evil cult. It is in fact a world recognized religion with over millions of believers.
If you find this answer not to your liking, check out the archives at www.wyldwytch.com

-Punkin

Answer 7

Pagan just mean a religion other then your religion there are so many kindas of these so called pagans that you would have to give me a name to get a good aswer pagan dont worship jesus if thats what your looking for names of various pagans include: WICCANS which are realtivly modern but clame to be ancient: DRUIDs are ancient celtic beliefs follow celtic and norse mythology: DID you know to ancient roman that who followed jupiter at the time considered early christians to be pagans all a pagan is is a realigion that is different from your you must give a speciffic name of a religion and then i can tell you about it

Answer 8

Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller" or "civilian") is a blanket term which has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions, as opposed to the Abrahamic monotheistic religions. "Pagan" is the usual translation of the Islamic term mushrik, which refers to 'one who worships something other than 'God' or 'Alah'. Ethnologists do not use the term for these beliefs, which are not necessarily compatible with each other: more useful categories are shamanism, polytheism or animism. Often, the term has pejorative connotations, comparable to heathen, infidel and kafir (كافر) in Islam.

So, any religion that doesn't worship only God ( Alah to Islamic) is considered a pagan religion.

Answer 9

Pagans worship Nature. It's that simple. Nothing strange or unusual. The hold ceremonies to celebrate things like the summer and winter solstice. The spring when things are planted, the fall when things are harvested. It is a peaceful simple religion

Whoops just read the other answers. Did you know pagans are things not of God?? Well what a judgmental person that one is I think I'll pray to the Goddess for her to be enlightened.

Answer 10

Paganism is about Nature

ahh let me get the dictionary version im lazy these days.

"Heathen" redirects here. For the David Bowie album, see Heathen (album).

Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller" or "civilian") is a blanket term which has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions, as opposed to the Abrahamic monotheistic religions. "Pagan" is the usual translation of the Islamic term mushrik, which refers to 'one who worships something other than God'. Ethnologists do not use the term for these beliefs, which are not necessarily compatible with each other: more useful categories are shamanism, polytheism or animism. Often, the term has pejorative connotations, comparable to heathen, infidel and kafir (كافر) in Islam.