To all on R&S, I have a question for you.....?

Question

I have seen two people bring up this subject, and I feel the same way. The gods/godsess (s) they are devoted to are or their . I agree with them.

Do you think your religion has anything to do with your ancestors?

I mean bloodline, not necessarily parents

Answer 1

What Boar said.

Ok, ok I won't be lazy I will actually answer. Sheesh
I became Pagan and I went to the Egyptian Gods and asked for a place to start. I knew it wasn't my permanent path, but I also knew I wasn't Wiccan. I felt them, but not in a three dimensional textured way.
After a while, the Gods of my bloodlines smacked me over the head. Just about literally. Blood does call. Perhaps not all the time, but I DO think it gives us a better link to our past and it brings you closer to yourself. As Boar said, our Gods ARE our past. We are the literal descendants of our Gods. Why shouldn't be honor them?
As far as Pagan's only going back a generation or two that is only partly true. A lot of the N European countries didn't dog out the paganism. They only converted for trade. Many of the practices stuck around. I know my family did a few. It was never killed completely.
So yes, Blood Calls.

Answer 2

The children of light and the children of darkness speak of one spiritual lineage planted by God and foreordained. Check out Cinderella, the Prodigal Son or the story of Abraham.

As there is a bloodline in the physical, there is a birthright in the spiritual that comes with a blessing; regardless of how many Blessed Be's one may say. Consider genealogies of the Old Testament. Consider kings who claim not only thrones by bloody birth; but with pomp and circumstance are given jeweled crowns, blazoned with the words Espiritus Sanctus.

All religions are endued with a spirit. The big question is which one? And is it in your blood, your spirit, or in your imagination?

Or perhaps on your lapis philosophorum is simply written:
------------What you are you are becoming.----------------

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Answer 3

Nah, thats just a bit of a w@nk by people trying to appear all powerful and mysterious.

My bloodline is Celtic, yet I work with Sumerian Deities for the most part. Although I did work with Celtic deities for several years there......

I seriously doubt there are ANY "Traditions" of Paganism that go back for more than a generation or maybe two.

Answer 4

My ancestors ARE my religion.

As a reconstructionist heathen, my focus is on how things *were* done; I am reviving in my own life the traditional ways of my pre-conversion ancestors. And I do feel that this is an important thing to do, spiritually speaking; indigenous traditions have thousands of years behind them among my people; xianity has less than a thousand.

Bloodlines CALL. :-)

Answer 5

My family comes from a long line of Irish Celts. When I was Pagan, I worshipped the Celtic Pantheon. That is a while ago, before I realized I didn't really believe in them.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

I agree to both, these are the Gods that my ancestors worshiped,therefore I feel closer to them than any others.

Answer 8

There is only one God.

that would make them other humans not Gods/Goddesses.

My religion has to do with the one true God, his only begotten Son and the Holy Ghost and me. As I can only answer for myself, my ancestors will have to answer for their selves.

Answer 9

My parents were atheist/agnostic. My father came from a devoted Catholic family but he grew to hate God, and my mother's family never had much attachment to any church or faith.

Answer 10

Interesting, but I don't think so.

Although on recent evidence I could be wrong.

Well not on Buddhism itself, but more about the fact that I explore other religions and do not strictly conform to any single one.

((((hugs))))

May peace go with you throughout your life