Alll right i used to be a serious christian, took the bible for every word it said. Literaly. In the end though i chose to transfer to a pagan religion. Has this happened to anyone else, and please dont say i need to go back cause i never will.
2007-03-05 08:48:05 · 29 answers · asked by black_dragon 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
okay the reason i transferred to a pagan religion is because i never found peice. I mean it felt like a tyrant was controling me. ( i dont like authority to begin with) So I was harrasing a bunch of wiccans and well they seemed happy. They also lit a candle in hope of me finding peace. never happened to me before, one year later i changed.
2007-03-05 09:06:05 · update #1
My beliefs are pretty basic, I believe there are sveral dieties, but i focus more on honoring the elements. For i believe each element has a spirit repersenting it.
2007-03-05 09:14:34 · update #2
Yes, at one time I was a very fundamentalist Christian, and I was miserable and full of hate. When I left I did a complete 180, and I felt like a great burden was lifted and I have never had such a feeling of freedom (except for when I finally got my divorce, but that's another story). Leaving Christianity was the single best thing I have ever done and I will never regret it.
I am glad you found a religion that makes you feel at peace and that you are happy with. It took me a few years after leaving Christianity to finally find my current religion, Asatru.
2007-03-05 11:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would ask a question... What are the beliefs of your "pagan religion"? I didn't even know such a thing existed. I am a Non-denominational Christian if that matters and I have been for over twenty years. This is not supposed to impress you, just to give you some information so that you might fill in some gaps.
Thanks,
Eds
2007-03-05 17:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I was younger (middle school), I was a new age Christian. I called myself an "Oprah Christian", because she was the only person I saw in the media (or anywhere at that time) who was a Christian and interested in new age stuff.
By the time I got to high school, I was into paganism. Now I'm a college graduate and I've found my pagan path.
2007-03-05 17:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by lalasnake 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it has...I think the majority of Pagans are like that. Christianity forces people to feel BAD about themselves and things that happen in life that are natural occurrences. I have came to see that Christianity is nothing more than a tool to control the masses and nothing more than that. I think that Jesus had some good ideas and stories, but nothing more than that.
2007-03-05 16:55:39 · answer #4 · answered by hera 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I was Christian when I was very young, and I left it very early in life because even as a child I recognized the Christian deity was not a deity of Love.... and I could not bring myself to worship something that horrible. After following a wide and varied spiritual path I currently consider myself Neo-Pagan Taoist.
Taoism best describes my opinion of things Spiritual, and I celebrate Pagan holidays because I love their zest for life. I think it's a great thing to celebrate each aspect of life in its turn, and focus on the cyclical nature of things. Paganism is very accepting - celebrating, even - the realities of life as opposed to making ourselves fit into something unnatural because we are told we are born wrong.
2007-03-05 16:58:37 · answer #5 · answered by KC 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The bible has over 200 errors in it because man has altered it and revised it out of context. I have even heard hard core Christians tell me that the old testament is no longer valid and it wasn't followed anymore. Instead you have Jesus who died for your sins so now you have no responsibility at all. I converted to Islam and found great peace. I don't know about pagen religions but anything manmade will have its flaws. Better to study the word of God instead of man's.
2007-03-05 16:58:39 · answer #6 · answered by littledarling54 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
in the search for my path i first looked to christianity, as it was readily available, but it didn't stir my heart. i turned to other 'mainstream' (though less so) religions and buddhism made me think & feel, but not wholly. then i found wicca! and it seemed to speak to my heart, like i had found what i had been searching for. i am still pagan, but after wicca i researched many pagan religions and spiritualities, and i consider myself an eclectic pagan, influenced most strongly by wicca, shamanism, and pantheism, with a bit of buddhism & panentheism to boot. but i am also atheist, as i do not believe the complexities of nature & life could ever possibly be completely symbolised as a personification.
i'm glad for you, that you've gotten closer to discovering your own personal path! enjoy the journey
2007-03-05 16:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Blessed be!
I find that I can blend my paganism with my religion easily and beautifully and I'm sure that you will too. Remember, Paganism is the oldest religion and that Christianity is deeply rooted in old Pagan traditions. It's beautiful once you start to notice the common threads.
2007-03-05 16:53:46 · answer #8 · answered by Aileen C 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
My partner went from Christianity to Wicca. She took Christianity very seriously, which is why I, as a never-been-Christian-Pagan am constantly asking her "why do Christians do X."
Since I have read the Bible in some of the original tounges and valid translations, I tend to have a hard time when I find Christians do something or believe something that's not in the Bible. When I point one of them out to her, she usually goes "another reason I am no longer Christian."
2007-03-05 16:52:45 · answer #9 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 8⤊ 3⤋
I was raised in a christian church, home, and school.
I left the church altogether at 17 when I moved out of my parents house and found paganism in my mid 20's.
I've been a practicing pagan now for about 12 years...
Peace
2007-03-05 16:53:24 · answer #10 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋