2006-08-26 07:22:51 · 9 answers · asked by zorro 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
fyi I'm Christian and intend to stay so.
I was just wondering about other's beliefs.
2006-08-26 07:35:44 · update #1
I suppose you could if you really wanted to, but it's not necessary and most people don't. Since "pagan" could refer to any number of religions and traditions, there isn't an official conversion process. People do what they feel is appropriate and meaningful for them. (Or what is required by the tradition they are entering, if the tradition has rules covering the matter.)
I'm not sure what the purpose of renouncing baptism would be, anyway. If you don't believe in the legitimacy of the sacrament, then why renounce something that you think doesn't matter? If you believe in the legitimacy of it, then renunciation would be rather silly since baptism is said to leave an indelible mark on one's soul.
2006-08-26 09:49:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. You don't have to renounce anything. If a Pagan moves from service of one God into the service of another, she doesn't renounce them, it's not like breaking up with your boyfriend. She just goes and serves another God for awhile, no burning bridges, more like having dinner with this relative instead of that one. Therefore, if you are Christian, and become Pagan, there is no need to renounce the Christian God (though many do because he is so violent and hateful) or your baptism, you just move on. Formal renunciation would be petty.
2006-08-28 08:52:21 · answer #2 · answered by kaplah 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to formally renounce your Christian baptism; your Pagan initiation is all that is required. Becoming Pagan is about discovering beliefs and the divine, not rejecting the beliefs others.
2006-08-26 14:29:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how you could, really. A lot of churches regard baptism as a time to introduce you to the community and to God. Well, now that that's happened, how do you un- introduce yourself? As a pagan, one has generally decided that the original sin it was meant to wash away didn't exist in the first place, so renouncing it would be equally pointless. In short, I've never met anyone who bothered.
On a humorous note, i'd have to do it twice. My mom was worried because I was going in for a risky surgery and had the first man of the cloth she found in the airport baptise me. He asked what she was, and when she responded that she was Lutheran, he asked if that was what the heathens called themselves. Needless to say, she had someone else do it at her own church later!
2006-08-27 10:18:44 · answer #4 · answered by kivrin9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I was the "do-it-yourself" type Pagan for 16 years so, obviously, I didn't have to do anything I didn't want to.
I began training with and was initiated into a traditional Wicca coven a few years ago. No matter what you read on the Internet, I have never had to renounce anything. Or stomp on a cross. Or say any Judeo-Christian prayers backwards. Or kiss a goat's bum. (I didn't "have" to .... that one was just for fun!)
Kidding about the last one,
Matt
2006-08-27 04:24:30 · answer #5 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be a pagan (neo-pagan) one would believe in more than one deity. I don't know anything about the Christian ritual of baptism.
2006-08-26 14:56:37 · answer #6 · answered by Witchy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silly! Your baptism doesn't matter, so whats to renounce? Its just a human ceremony. A pagan is not the same as a so called devil worshipper, but its ALL myth, anyhow. Why become anything? You're probably fine as you are, you just don't realize it yet.
2006-08-26 14:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like you have already made it
2006-08-26 14:30:12 · answer #8 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No you do not have to do that unless you want to do so, but if not that's cool.
2006-08-30 01:08:42 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix Summersun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋