Pagans are non-god worshipping? I'm wiccan and worship a lot of goddesses and a "god". so, is this true?

Question

This is one of the answers given to a different question: difference between pagan and wiccan.

Pagan means (and don't get mean about this) non God worshipping, and Wicca is a belief system. Same thing as saying What is the difference between being a protestant and being Southern Baptist, or being a catholic and being Greek Orthodox.
Hope this helps

Answer 1

I do not know who told you this, but that is not the correct meaning of Pagan. The word Pagan means: one who lives
in the country. This religion is based on that Pagans belive in more than one God and Goddess.
I am a Pagan, and I pray to a god, goddess and The Divine Spirit
from which all things come.

Answer 2

Pagans along with Wiccans worship many Gods and Goddess'.

Answer 3

They're clearly referring to the Christian God. Pagans worship a Goddess and God, just like us, though some focus more on the Goddess (just like us).

This person is probably not Wiccan or Pagan.

BB

Answer 4

The term pagan has different meanings. It's often used by adherents of one of the Abrahamic faiths as a synonym for infidel: someone who does not adhere to the speaker's particular faith. A similar, but distinct meaning is embraced by Neopagans. Paganism is a collection of many different faiths believed to be modern versions of ancient and generally nature-based religions (or at least inspired by the mystery religions of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, etc.). Some Neopagans revere all things as part of the divine spirit of the universe (pantheists), some worship many deities (polytheists), some show reverence to the masculine and feminine forces (dualists), and some don't worship any deities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopaganism

Answer 5

To your question: Thats a bad rumor that christians made up to pair up Pagans with Atheists. ALthough i acknowledge there may be billions of Gods and Goddesses I worship none because I am a Goddess, instead I ask them for guidance with my spells.

Answer 6

Well, it depends on what world view a person is coming from. As a Christian, I believe that there's only one God. That's YHWH. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There's no other God beside Him. So, if you're not worshiping this God then you're not worshiping any God at all.

Baptists (Southern, Independent, Reformed), Catholics, and Greek Orthodox all believe in only one God. So, I'm sure (if they're consistent with the Christian world view) would see no disagreement here.

But, if one is coming from a different world view that realizes the existence of other gods...then you might be able to convince them of the plethora of divine beings you claim to worship.

Answer 7

That's silly. I'm Pagan and I worship lots of Gods. I'm not Wiccan.

Answer 8

I am probably agnostic, since I'm mostly spiritual I believe anything is possible. I believe in karma, god/gods, etc.. But then philosophy comes up and asks what is higher than god/gods? In the absence of nothing there is something, in the absence of something there is nothing.

Like the number 0, it has a lot of meaning yet it means nothing. Then you could say it would then have no meaning. But I would say nothing has meaning because nothing itself is actually something. 0 is like the building block, the foundation.

So I ask what created god/gods? Would this be called the unspeakable? Then I ask if the unspeakable created god/gods, what created the unspeakable? Would what created the unspeakable be the unthinkable? And so on infinite.

Lol, confused?

Answer 9

Oh, the joys of semantics!

Many words have multiple meanings--and they;re all right (at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which tries to collect every definition of every word to be as complete as possible ;)

What "Pagan" means to me is probably different from what it means to a sociologist, which in turn is different from what it means to a fundamentalist Christian, and probably is different from what it meant to a Roman 1,800 years ago.

People spend entirely too much time debating themeanings of words, and not enough fulfilling their own personal definitions, IMO. It;s more fun to be my kind of pagan than to argue with someone about what that means, exactly.

Answer 10

only a christian could say that a pagan is a non-god worshipper. and that christian would be lieing. pagans, wiccans etc. all acknowledge the male and female life giving forces in nature which is reflected in the god and goddess aspects.......but don't let anyone tell you that pagans are non-god, it is simply not true.