are you a pagan who used to be christian?

Question

what made you change?

Answer 1

It was a combination of things. I tried to be Christian, I really did. Unfortunately, certain gifts run in my family, and most Christians in my congregation (and elsewhere) saw these things as evil. Also, when I went to a particularly beautiful cathedral, I could just feel how much the people who built it must have loved their god, and I just wasn't feeling it. I mourned that. The killing blow to my association with my church growing up was the congregation who, without the ok from any authority, felt the need to stage a "witch hunt" for gays who might be lurking within it. At that point, I stopped mourning my lack of faith and started looking for something else. It wasn't hard to find. I had been brought up with tales of myths from previous cultures, and had always believed them. I feel there is truth in every religion, but you have to find the one that actually has something to do with you. I'm a polytheist, and believe that there are many and diverse gods. Surely everyone can find a friend whom they can trust.

Answer 2

I do not really know to be honest, but the one thing I can say is that my heart was not truly with the Christian faith. Memories that I really cannot explain; no not concious recalection of a past life, but some thing down deep just resinated with Paganism. I could not see the Christian point of view that every one else was damned and they were the only ones who could or would enter heaven. That is the best way I can discribe it to anyone really, but even though I made my choice I still respect the Christian faith aside from my brother I am the only Pagan in my family really, and even knowing that my family still respects me and the choice I made in my life (at least I hope they do). So many Christians (myself included for the time I called myself a Christian) seemed to be so hateful to those who did not worship their God, and then I read the Bible again and found my faith in Christianity lacking, and finaly after much soul searching I ran into some people (now my friends) who taught me about Paganism, and they help clear up some of the garbage that I though was Paganism, and they taught me the truth about Paganism. That is it in a very big nut shell.

To the Christian who said that we are doomed to hell; the Bible says "Do not judge lest you be judged by your own mesure." You are not your God, nor fot that matter am I, but you seem to act as if you are one. I live a rather peaceful life, and I (as a former Christian) find your remark offense to your faith and the teaching of Jesus Christ express acceptence of others yet you use an argument that is not even used in the Bible. So I humbly ask you to read the entier Bible, in which it is said that even those who do not worship your God may enter Heaven if there faith is strong in what ever they believe, and they have lead a good moral life.

Blessed Be to all

24 y.o. Pagan College Student

Answer 3

When I found out that the Christians stole basically everything from the Pagans, I chose paganism.

So many Xtians don't even realize what Christmas and Easter are all about, its laughable. They're just confused pagans worshipping a man made book.

Answer 4

To many questions for which there are no answers in the Christian sect Bibles.
had to read out side of the christian bible to find more of the answers I was looking for. such as the Torah. the lost books of the bible, the forgotten books of Eden. and others .
This led to explore other faiths and their beliefs.
Decided that the Celtic Pagan religion suited my thoughts and feelings better. also much of Christianys rites and symbols were stolen from the Pagans to get them to convert to Christianity. this includes the trinity (there are many trinities in the Celtic religions stories).
So I have become a Celtic Pagan/Christian .This is not a contradiction or conflict of faith ideas. just a filling out of them

Answer 5

The more I read the tomes of Christianity the more I felt it couldn't be real. Too much in there that was taken from other mythologies and retooled for Christianity. The more I read and learned the more I didn't believe it. I just felt it was a control thing and that the basic tenants of it didn't match what was taught. In my opinion what it taught and what it professed to be didn't match. When I heard it compared to the Santa Claus myth and it was so much like it that was the end for me. I found Wicca through a search and stuff sent to me by my family and I knew I had found the right one for me, that it matched my own belief system and what I thought was right and I was home.

Answer 6

I often think that our choice of religion is not really a choice. As my eyes are hazel, and my son’s are blue, I truly believe that we are meant for certain Paths in life...

Having said that, allow me to show you the manner in which my Path chose me... First of all, with all of the evidence that shows Women having a much larger role in Religion in our past, I was dismayed at how much Christianity had smothered the female role and image within their ranks. Secondly, I truly believe that we were given Free Will as a manner of bettering our lives as well as making our own choices... Except that Christianity takes all of that away and leaves you a sheep following an unknown herder leading you to the path of numbness... Thirdly, Christianity and Catholicism both teach two different versions of God... One is all knowing, all powerful, all wrathful, all judgmental and will send you to Hell if you don't follow his Path and his Path alone...He's vengeful, jealous, and unwilling to share... YET, they also tell you that he loves you and is all love and forgiveness...Huh? Those two don't fit together...It's as if they can't make up their minds and want to cover all of their bases, so God is made up in THIER image, whichever one they happen to be.

Lastly, more people have been killed in the name of the Christian God than any other disease or Nature-made disasters combined...I don't want to be a part of a religion that tells you that you shouldn't kill, but that they can if it suits them...

Answer 7

Each answer you find will be a result of a desire for more "self reliance". The way of the world is always mired in pride and arrogance. You can place all kinds of fancy labels on paganism but it still remains a rebellion against God. Unfortunately, paganism wont save you from His wrath.

Answer 8

I am a pagan. Our family never went to a church or anything, but I've read the christian bible and it scared the living sh** out of me. I turned away from it because one day, I just realized, there is absolute proof of dinosaurs, but no mention of them in the bible. If that god created all (including dinosaurs) he would've mentioned it to one of these "prophets" that wrote the book.
I turned to paganism because it's just something that I've felt come naturally my whole life.

Answer 9

Years of serious consideration and soul searching. The distant and punitive God of my Christian upbringing was unworthy of respect, much less worship, and so I looked to the gods who answered my call for the one or ones who did in fact care more about my existence than about the chess game in which I was apparently a pawn.

Answer 10

Yes, I was bored. But the Paganism bored me too...so now I don't classify myself as anything...I do have faith, but it's not something I can put a label to.