we worship the creation and not the creator? Am I the only pagan who sees the true irony in this? LOL
Even better we can now sit back and watch all the Christians post "But it's true! You do! We know everything so why should be bother to learn about what you actually believe?"
2007-09-02 15:48:59 · 24 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really atheist because I understand they don't believe in ANY Gods, not just mine. And they are usually pretty respectful about that stance with us.
And mj whoever...that just makes no sense what so ever.....
2007-09-02 15:54:57 · update #1
Oh yes. Please DO go on. Because we don't even worship the sun or moon. You are beautifully proving my point. By all means...continue....
2007-09-02 15:55:55 · update #2
Ah Em, then you were informed wrong. We are a bit deeper then that....
2007-09-02 15:59:17 · update #3
In sympathy for the pointy-headed ones, their little book tells them to say that . . . but what they can't seem to wrap their minds around is that Paul was WRONG.
Even about the pagan faiths of his own time. Honestly, he just had no freakin' clue.
2007-09-02 16:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't find very much funny in people telling me what I believe. Seems to me I'm the only one who can say that.
As to "worship," I have a rather specific use for that term, and cannot say what other people mean when they use it. But I think the concept of a "creator" in the sense of some guy picking up a ball of stuff and molding it into a world, complete with animals and people and plants, all in a six-day period, is pretty mythological. It's up there with the one about an elephant riding on a turtles back, or whatever.
To me, the Universe is self-created; I guess that makes me a pantheist. That is, I see the One hanging out in hyperspace, bored off its non-existent tush, chanting OOOOOMMM for what would have been eternity. Then for something to do, He/She/It created a division, like an amoeba, and then just kept on dividing and multiplying and creating particles and wow, this is cool, let's go for it: BANG!
2007-09-02 19:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My little girl was in the backyard playing . She looked at the trees swaying and felt the breeze hit her face. She said, "Daddy, the trees are making my hair get messed up."
What Christian believe is a bit deeper than what you described as well. Just because some are not capable of presenting it that way does not make it so...just as some who worship the goddess are incapable of doing no other than equating her with the Earth as if there were no difference between the two. Whatever your spiritual beliefs are, it is never accurate to put them into a bunker sticker statement and assume that everyone else will catch all your hidden meanings, innuendo and assumed presuppositions.
2007-09-02 16:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is somewhat ironic, and proof that once again another
religion is condemning what it has not understood or at all
looked into.
My personal outlook is that, if a religion is shut off from all
the others, closed minded, condemnatory, they are sad. I
would hate to be so closed up as to not tolerate other ways
of believing. Every single religion has Love, Peace, and
acceptance in it somewhere; so why can't we embrace
that part of it and leave the fighting alone?????
2007-09-02 15:58:41 · answer #4 · answered by naturemama6 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
easily, actually the funniest element i've got ever seen stated approximately Wicca grow to be based on a query right here on Y!A, and not based on a query I asked or my explaining my faith, yet I nonetheless snort over this one. in view that hyperlinks do no longer seem working in the present day - the question grow to be "what's the real which skill of Wicca?" And between the solutions grow to be this.... "Wicca is only yet another perception people have, a ideas-set on existence. a remarkable style of it rather is extra organic for shampoos and what no longer." specific, my faith is generally in line with organic "shampoos and what no longer"! LOL (nicely, I do have very long hair so a stable shampoo and conditioner is considerable.)
2016-12-31 10:28:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No kidding! What they fail to see is the creator within the creation. Its a cycle, whereas the Christian way of thinking (if you can call it that) is very linear. Born, live, die. Nothing else. Their creator is far away and unattainable and impersonal - despite what they say. "[insert deity here] is in my heart!" they cry. So what. Our deity/deities live(s) in everything. The creator is manifest within the creation so that we may become one with Nature and feel His/Her presence as time passes.
2007-09-02 15:56:23 · answer #6 · answered by beztvarny 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm an Agnostic and find that rather funny. I was told the same thing when I read books an Paganism.
2007-09-02 15:52:48 · answer #7 · answered by Megegie 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I know! It's so annoying... as if there weren't hundreds of pagan deities that we can worship.
"oh yeah they worship the created not the creator... I know this because I've studied paganism and am qualified to comment about it" lol
2007-09-02 15:57:49 · answer #8 · answered by xx. 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I find kinda of amusing. They comment on our religion, when they have no concept on it, while, the Pagans who came from Christian backgrounds, know just as much as they do about their religion and can comment from experience!
Former Catholic, Beautiful Wiccan!
Blessed Be
2007-09-02 16:56:51 · answer #9 · answered by Trickster 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I love to tell people when they are wrong and ignorant. I especially love it when they try to tell me who I worship, all the orgies I've attended and what animals should be sacrificed!
I embrace the "true" religion for... me!
2007-09-02 16:32:10 · answer #10 · answered by humanrayc 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋