When and how did you find out that all that was in the Bible was a bunch of crap ?
I think it was during religious education somewhere in my early high school years that I once said: "Wait a minute, I think..."
And it all became clear to me.
2007-08-29 03:48:25 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
@ daughter:
Hel is flemish for Hell. Also, the name of a norse god was called Hel and her realm Helheim, the christians adapted or stole that.
2007-08-29 03:54:59 · update #1
Heathens spell that with one L. Hel
;) Just had to put that in there. LOL
Hel was the daughter of Loki. Odin took her and her siblings in to find purpose for them and sent her to her own realm, Hel. It is the place where people go when they have died of old age, etc.
Christians most likely did not steal the concept of Hel from the Norse since the concept came along WAY before even the Romans found Northern Europe.
Hel is not seen as a "punishment" persay it's simply the course of how you died, just like any death in the Norse culture post Roman influence. HOW you died decided where you went, not always how you LIVED.
Before the Roman and Christian influence many Norse cultures didn't believe in the same concept of an afterlife as you are stating.
Havamal:
78. Cattle die, and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one's self;
One thing I know that never dies,
The fame of a good man's deeds
They believed your name and your luck was your immortality. You're blood line was your afterlife.
I'm not a complety moron.
2007-08-29 03:50:43 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 5⤊ 5⤋
"Heathens spell that with one L. Hel
;) Just had to put that in there. LOL"
Thumbs up for you hun.........
Not only that, our Hel is nowhere near what kristjans assume Hel is, in fact, it is they who took ours and transposed onto it it's current "meaning". Hel is the goddess who watches over the dead, Helheim is a part of Niflheim.There is no torture, no lake of fire, no eternal damnation, sinners do not go there although there is a section...Nastrond... reserved for oath breakers, philanderers, murderers and such.
While it is nothing like the kristjan hell, the host of Hel does ride with the giants at Ragnarok so while it isn't as bad as the kristjans say, there IS a trade off.
2007-08-29 04:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by Thrudheim 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Having been born and raised Pagan it was suggested to me, at age 8, to spend two years in religion so I could make my own opinion. I did. It was the extreme guilt, confusion, anger, judgments, pressure, etc.. of religious cult that drove me happily home to my free Pagan ways.
You know, I can sit down and get completely immersed in a good epic book but when I'm done, guess what? I have to face reality! I can't imagine believing in a book so much that I would insist others believe it to lest they go to some incredible place called 'hell' Wow.
Blessed Be
2007-08-29 05:09:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I received 12 years of Christian education. I don't remember ever really believing the stories I was being told, but I was 13 when I became aware that I was an unbeliever and stopped trying to see the point in it. I was 19 before I called myself an atheist (I was taught as a child that "atheist" meant "satanist").
2007-08-29 04:01:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was about ten. They told me in Sunday school that God made plants before the Sun. First I didn't believe that the Bible could say such a stupid thing. Then I actually looked it up and it did. Well that got me thinking.
2007-08-29 04:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I started reading the science new and realized that the creationists were making a bunch of "misleading" statements. I started to research various "truths" I had been taught as a kid and realized that most Christians will swallow anything a pastor or another Christian tells them.
Then I went back and re-read the Bible and said "I believed this?"
2007-08-29 03:54:38 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
High School when I actually started listening in Biology class. And could never get a straight answer out of the teachers at my church about evolution. Most had no idea that there were 2 creation stories. I had to laugh.
2007-08-29 03:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by Bri 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it's time we have a positive attitude towards our changing world.... not live and dwell of the negativity inspired by the bible any longer... just burn chirstians and get it over with.... there no more hell on earth for any of us... I use to be much nicer and encourage them to go to heaven as soon as possible but they multiply like flies... anyone got a fly swatter...
2007-08-29 05:28:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was 28, and had just spent 2 years asking God to communicate with me.
Apparently he didn't care, or doesn't exist, either way, it led me to really look into my belief system, and take a pragmatic look at the bible.
After reading the Bible end to end, and finding too many philosophical problems, I realized that it was all a ruse, that evolved because people needed to feel like they had a purpose.
2007-08-29 03:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It was a gradual migration from belief to lack of belief. I found that the rationalizations I needed to apply to the Bible as though they were some glue holding it together were actually acts of desperation from me in an attempt to make the Bible work in the real world. I found that what I was doing was not following the bible but was indeed making up my own God thus pointless in the first place.
2007-08-29 03:52:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋