Alright, im pegan, but im not a "book taught" pegan, i know what i've learned through experience and meditation and spiritual guidance throughout my life. I have many people telling me "well ur not a real pegan, ur not a real anything".... i don't understand it, how can someone tell me i have no religion when i practice one that i have been spiritually guided to merely because i don't buy and study every book about it that comes my way.
2006-12-08 07:39:50 · 12 answers · asked by Cheezy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've had people tell me that as well. Their idea of a Pagan is one who works within a specific group. It's getting to be mainstream and some of them are just as bad as other religions with telling people who they can be a "True" whatever.
Don't worry about what others say about it. It's none of their business anyway.
2006-12-08 08:00:56 · answer #1 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to comprehend your faith you must study it.
Pagan is spelled with an "a". I don't like to be snarky about that, but it would be hard for anyone to take a person's faith seriously if that person cannot spell the word.
There are many pagan websites available where you can learn the history of paganism, where the movement stands today and what traditions might be important to you. You are missing out on a great deal if you do not take advantage of the resources available to you to aid in your spiritual growth.
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2006-12-08 07:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wicca is definitely a "genuine faith." First, once you're interior the U. S., the government does not make differences between genuine and not-genuine religions. a faith is a faith. the protection stress chaplain's education manual addresses Wicca. there is something drawing close a million individuals interior the worldwide. the united kingdom census incorporates Wicca in its record of achievable religions to analyze. Many Wiccan communities have 501c3 exemptions and can carry out legal weddings. Wicca has ideals approximately deity, worldviews and ethical perspectives, trip journeys and rituals, which particular appears like a faith to me. Your instructor is ignorant if she thinks that Wicca isn't a real faith. besides the shown fact that, "pagan" isn't a faith. it relatively is a team of religions and in case you noted the ideals of "pagans" you very very nearly veritably grossly generalized. If i replaced into the instructor i might grade you down for that. I instruct faith on a college point. i will talk on your instructor if that would help. in basic terms deliver me an digital mail handle privately.
2016-10-14 07:05:43 · answer #3 · answered by trinkle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to paraphase Forest Gump....
A Pagan is as a Pagan does.
since pagans are nontraditional and unorthodox you will always run into someone somewhere that will not understand your form of practice, even if they are someon you practice with. The best thing to do is be polite, considerate and flexible.
Seriously, if you go into someone else's house, you don't tell them that you have to vaccuum with the right hnand and dinner is always at 630. The same should be the otherway around aswell.....but it is difficult to control things outside of your influence, the best you can hope for is to control your reactions to those same situations.
2006-12-08 08:04:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are various paganism beliefs and teachings. Majority of Christendom actually practice a lot pagan beliefs such as Easter and Christmas.
2006-12-08 07:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not to correct you but Pagan is a term for someone not of the Abraham faiths (Hebrew, Muslim, Christian) and isn't really a religion, it is an umbrella term for Wiccans, various reconstructionist, Shamanism, and other faiths. Secondly, you are the faith you say you are, not what others tell you. Most of us know that our traditions are written in the sky and not in stone (or ink). Be yourself and feel happy in the knowledge that your faith is right for you!
Blessed Be )O(
2006-12-08 07:51:01 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Paganism is a form of religion, not a particular one.
In general it's a decentralized worship of some general concepts, typically nature base.
2006-12-08 07:45:09 · answer #7 · answered by distind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hehehe spelling mistake aside ... you can create your religion as pleases you. tho many will say you must perform a prescribed ritual worship to a prescribed god/dess to find "Oneness" or some kind of other magical results i'm of the opinion that "God" is accepting of everything that IS and your creation of "God" is just as valid (if not more so due to originality) as any other person's or group's version of "God". "God" can't be confined between the bindings of a book anyway.
2006-12-08 07:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Pagan.
2006-12-08 07:41:41 · answer #9 · answered by enslavementality 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always figured that "real" pagans knew that it was spelled "pagan"
2006-12-08 07:42:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋