mix with light? I think you know by my nick which one I mean is darkness and which is light.
2007-03-28 09:21:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
as a pagan, i have met some christian pagans, but not buddhist pagans.
many people who were brought up as christian have a hard time believing in it, and find paganism much more natural. they find it difficult to put their family religion completely behind them, so try to merge the two (this is what i have been told) sometimes it works for them, sometimes it doesn't.
christians and pagans have more in common than not. we are more alike than different.
don't go judging people's beliefs when you have no knowledge of them. only judge the fanatics, you know, the ones who can't accept anyone else's beliefs as being good?!?!?!
2007-03-28 09:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
How would you term act worse? I haven't really seen many Christian pagans or buddhists who act as hypocritical, judgemental or condemning as their purebred Christian cousins.
Do the Christian pagans and buddhists act less loving, compassionate, merciful, understanding or forgiving than their purepred Christian counterparts?
Which ones actually hold a more Christlike life and view on life? Which ones actually walk the path of Christ more? Which ones provide healing, love and compassion to others around them?
Perhaps you should take it on a case by case basis than lumping all people into a pot of darkness. But then, that is what most purebred Christians do (at least on this forum).
2007-03-28 16:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by Unity 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My only contacts with Christian Buddhists were fellow faculty members at a small Christian University. One had a problem stalking the coeds, but other than that, they all seemed anything but fanatical.
At the same time I never grasped the fusion. It seemed to me that if Christianity were so ethically inadequate, which it is, combining it with Buddhist ethics was not the answer, The answer was to embrace Buddhist ethics and abandon the supernaturalism of Christianity.
As a fundamentalist at the time I felt as you do about combining the two. But I've since done what I had never done before, which is to take a critical look at scripture as a moral and ethical guide, to find myself surprised at just how awful it is for either purpose. In fact it is most illuminating to realize the degree to which some Christians actually embrace the rational and compassionate aspects of secular humanist ethics and give Jesus the credit, just as others embrace the irrational ethics and morals of Moses ordering the execution of women and children captives in Numbers 31, the ethics of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, ethics for which they give Jesus the blame.
It makes you realize the degree to which people simply find themselves reflected in their religion as opposed to finding any god. But given that there's no god to find, how could it be otherwise?
2007-03-28 16:36:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as a Christian Buddhists or Christian pagan. Maybe man may think so, but certainly not God. Jesus clearly says that He is the way and the only way to the Father.
2007-03-28 16:33:08 · answer #4 · answered by angel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever met a christian buddhist? Buddhists are not theists and reject the idea of anything being eternal, including God, souls, heaven and hell. Do you actually know one single thing about buddhism or paganism..? Buddhists act WAY more like Jesus than the christians do.
By the way- Look at the Yin-Yang, light mixes with darkness continuously.
2007-03-28 16:26:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
in what ways are they acting worse? can't a person just live a simple, decent life and live according to the golden rule, pray for the sick and unfortunate, lend a helping hand, be kind and generous - without claiming any other religion is better than another? a christian pagan? a christian buddhist? who cares what a person's title is - it's how we treat others.
2007-03-28 16:26:59 · answer #6 · answered by Virgo 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There's no such thing as a christian pagan or a christian buddist. I've never heard the term "purebred" christian either. Where are all these weird terms coming from, who's making this crap up?
2007-03-28 16:28:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The christian pagans I've come across were all pretty cool folk. I never met a Christian Buddhist.
What really matters is where we take our faith...to a light or a dark place. You're probably either dealing with the wrong individuals, or you are tainting your perception of them with your own faith.
2007-03-28 16:25:23 · answer #8 · answered by mamasquirrel 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I have not heard of such. No, Light and Dark can not mix unless it is a person like me. Bi-racial.
One can not be Bi-religious, maybe Christianity and Judaism can co-exist with each other because they both use the Old Testament. But not other religious groups. This is truly weird.
But that is just my opinion.
2007-03-28 16:31:14 · answer #9 · answered by Cat 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There's really no such thing as a Christian pagan or a Christian buddhist, because Light cannot mix with darkness.
2007-03-28 16:27:45 · answer #10 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋