When people say Pagan, do they really mean "adore devil"?

Question

This guy keeps bothering me http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=AiYCpl6WDrM_nA_pohCs3nHd7BR.?show=d45a15ef47ccb3ed90fbff1fb9b09ef6aa and I can't help but think that Jesus is not the reason, but instead it's the anti angel of Jesus.

I know a lot of you love going against the word of the bible, but that doesn't make you right. Thanks to people that love themselves and the devil, homes are no longer what they used to be. Women love themselves and men love being with each other instead of the opposite.

beerdrinker,

What part of the question mark don't you understand geek?

Kallen, who i know is a guy really, is one of those types who proves everything i've ever said about this group of young today. young sinners who don't know their church. They are the anti-church.

Answer 1

It's neither. Paganism is just a fad-based religion based on the latest best-sellers. Jesus, if he existed, is a dead guy. God is a superstition and so is the devil.

Though, it is funny seeing one superstitious person complaining about another superstitious person, and sad, too.

Answer 2

Your friend sounds a little confused. Wicca is a Pagan religion, but not all Pagans are Wiccan. Pagan encompasses numerous spiritual systems that hold some similar core beliefs. Just like Christianity encompasses various denominations. Noted religious historian, Ronald Hutton, defined the three common beliefs among *most* Pagan spiritual systems as: a kinship with/reverence for Nature, a belief in divine masculine and feminine, and belief in a code of ethics (such as the Wiccan rede or some comparable code). There are a few Pagan spiritualities that may disagree with this, however. As far as what Pagan means to me personally, well, I really like Selena Fox's article "I am Pagan" linked below. Don't know that I could summarize it much more or say it better.

Answer 3

You are very rude to post someone's profile and single them out on yahoo answers.

You are also very ignorant. First, you blame homosexuality and divorce on pagans. Divorce happens because of people, regardless of their religion (MOST people that get divorced ARE Christians!) and there is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality. They have as much of a right to show their love for each other as you do to your wife or girlfriend.

Let me guess, you think women should stay in the home and not work to support themselves? I am a single divorced mother, am I sinning in that I try hard to give my daughter a good life, separated from a man I could no longer love and respect?

Do not make accusations about a culture that you know nothing about. Pagans, if by pagans you mean Wiccans, are very peaceful and do NOT worship the devil, they worship a God and a Goddess together and celebrate the equality of both sexes and the earth, regardless of sexual preference.

And I don't *love* going against the words of the Bible, I am an agnostic and while I believe there are good morals to be taken out of it's pages, it was written a long time ago and times have definitely changed. So we're supposed to regard homosexuality as an abomination? Hmm, I guess we should stone those who work on the Sabbath, shun women who are on their menstrual cycle, sell our daughters into slavery and kill the children who disobey us.

You disgust me.

Answer 4

Pagan comes from the Latin word in reference to the "countryside", as opposed to "city dwellers." They usually observed the forces of nature as "divine", whereas, the city folks were removed from the daily and seasonal rhythms of nature and worshipped "larger" gods and goddesses.

There was not originally anything derogatory about calling someone, or being, a "pagan".

When Christianity came along, the organized church lumped everything else under the heading of pagan. Yet simultaneously, pagan holidays and deitys were incorporated into the Church's holy days and list of saints. That made Christianity more acceptable to the locals, as Christian missionaries went out into the world.

There is not that much difference between one organized religion and another: they seem to want to create exclusive societies. Even the modern "pagans" push away older forms of worship.

The Infinite Source includes everything. All anyone should do is follow the heart and not worry about what anybody else does or doesn't do, does or doesn't like. You don't have to please anyone but yourSelf.

Answer 5

You have some issues there. Paganism was the belief early countrymen had, the people who work the land and were grateful for the blessings they received from mother earth. That's the answer to your question. Your other comments you will have to address with a preacher. Doesn't the bible teach you to love your neighbor? right or wrong, your neighbor is the person you have to love, like it or not. That's what YOU will be judged for. Let Jesus be the judge of their actions.

Answer 6

1. No.

2. Kallan is not a "guy". She's a lovely woman, and unlikely in the extreme to be "bothering' anyone.

3. There is no direct correlation between Paganism and lesbianism/homosexuality, although I am PROUD to say that most Pagans are loving, accepting people who don't care about the gender of those you love.

Answer 7

When people say "Pagan" they mean a person who does not acknowledge your god. Most Pagans I know of do not even acknowledge your devil, let alone adore it. Jesus would not recognize you as a person who has followed His teachings. You demonstrate a sad lack of the things He taught, such as peace, love and understanding.

Continuing to violate the Yahoo Answers Community Guidelines WILL result in your account being deleted.

Answer 8

Pagans are not Satan-worshippers. Satanists are Satan-worshippers.

Paganism is not and has never been about Devil worship. That's Christian propaganda from hundreds of years ago. Paganism preaches tolerance, love, humility and respect for the planet and the beings who inhabit it. On those lines many people argue that Jesus was a Pagan in the ideals that he preached.

Answer 9

I tire of this. Pagan worship is the worship of nature...trees,animals,life existance.

Secondly, men love being with each other instead of the opposite. What about Jesus and his 12 guys??? Never got out with the ladies, so it is written.
And the women kinda hung together too.
Do not take the splinter out of my eye until the log is taken out of your own.

Answer 10

I guess if you are illiterate and stupid that you can make any word mean anything you like. So what is your point? I and others like me don't need your belief to believe what we choose. That is why we love reminding people that the Christian God gave all his believers Free Will, so they can believe whatever. Too bad he didn't give us freedom from religion!

Answer 11

to attack someone personal is just low. Kallen is a girl first off and a very good friend. I am sorry you feel so threatened by her I guess you don't like your faith challenged by what she says.