How is it that someone can auctually believe in crap like wicca, paganism or satanism. Anyone that doesn't believe in the One True God is going to burn in Hell. I don't care if you don't believe in it. you will figure it out when you are burning there, tell me, what in your right minds makes you think you will not suffer eternal damnation? What makes you think you are better than anyone else?
2007-09-23 18:25:52 · 59 answers · asked by natedawg121 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
let me re-phrase this, How is it that someone can NOT believe in the one true GOD.. I am not being mean. there are so many clues that he exists and all of these other "cluts" refuse. i'm sorry for all of those wiccans and such that are going to hell
2007-09-23 18:40:16 · update #1
Man I wish you Buddhists would stop hating on everyone.
*Snort*
*Cheers*
BTW- Papa, the majority of Catholic bashing that goes on here is done by other Christians, not the groups you mentioned. I know because I have come to the defense many times on such questions- so you're welcome!
2007-09-23 18:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I have run into many people who speak as you do, and I have to wonder why it is so difficult to accept that someone else is of a different religion.
As you have stated "How is it that someone can auctually believe in crap like wicca, paganism or satanism"
This statement proves that you are uneducated on this topic. First of all Wicca is a form of Paganism. Paganism encompasses many different religions, and these are religions that were here long before "Christ" was ever written about. So why all of a sudden should we be the ones to be damned to "Hell"(a place that 90% of pagans don't even believe exist). And lastly if you ever looked at Satanism you would realize that its shell is about worshipping the devil but truly the devil is only meant to represent the worship of ones self. Try reading something and you might learn something.
We are not better than anyone else and that is what you are missing, we are all exactly the same. All religions are a path to that which gives us the power and strength to live our lives in a way that feels comfortable for us.
If you read some history why don't you try reading the Poetic Edda's for instance - and look at a God known as Baldr. His story is very similar to the story of Jesus.
You also might want to take a look into something known as the Gnostic Bible - it is the missing chapters from the Bible which were "Left" out by your wonderful predecessors because there were references to jesus trying to tell people that he was "A son of God" just as everyone else is.
I will not tolerate people such as yourself speaking ill about something you are uniformed about, and dare to make accusations at people who are living their lives happily, and attempting to do what life is really all about.
I'm pretty sure your not even going to read this, but at the very least I need to know that I tried to inform you and maybe show you that you can be christian and we can be pagan and all get along.
And let me finish this up with one phrase that I think everyone should ponder very deeply.
"There is no religion higher than the truth"
-Madam Blavatsky
2007-09-24 11:05:30 · answer #2 · answered by Noah Vangelon 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hear is the reason why I don't practice Christianity anymore. I have a problem with a book that has been told by word of mouth for thousands of years. When it was finally written down it was originally in Aramaic, then Greek, then Hebrew, then, Latin until finally the King James version which then splintered from there (i.e. Baptist, Anglican, Episcopalian, Jehovah, etc).
We all know that you cannot literally translate something with out the meaning getting lost in translation. Isn't it possible that parts of the Bible the meaning may have gotten lost??
Then there is the fact that only your Kings, clergy, and nobles were allowed to learn how to read. That means that 90- 95% of the population could not. What makes you think that the monarchy, the clergy and the nobility were honest people and wouldn't lie to public. Supposedly god only spoke to the Kings and Queens or the Clergy. Have you read your history how the poor where treated back then.
I am not saying that there isn't a higher power but what I am saying that I refuse to believe that someone like myself that dedicates her life to helping people, is a volunteer firefighter, and sits for the drug addicted, neglected and/or abused kids will spend all of eternity being punished because I don't have blind faith in a god that may or may not exists. What about the Buddhist and the Tahitian monks that would flog themselves first before harming another living creator. Yet, we go to hell for doing nothing but good and some murder, drug dealer or any criminal intent on doing harm gets to go to heaven because he says sorry for all that he has done in the past. Do you seriously think "GOD" will allow that?!
2007-09-23 19:50:23 · answer #3 · answered by Colour3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does it upset you so that others have a different opinion about what the Divine truly is. Have you actually studied Wicca or Paganism to know what it is about?
We don't fear eternal damnation nor burning in a place that we believe doesn't exist.
"What makes you think you are better than anyone else?" Obviously you don't know us very well at all. We do not believe we are better than anyone else, in fact we believe that we are all a part of one another and that the sum of us all is the true Divine, and whatever we do to another we do to ourselves, which is why we don't attack you for your opinion as we would not wish to be attacked by ours.
Hopefully you will take some measure of peace in your own faith and become happy with the fact that it makes you happy and brings you peace and leave others to find their own happiness and peace.
2007-09-24 00:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by Stephen 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What's a "clut?"
I often wonder how people can believe crap like a dead man rising from the grave and his mother flying off to Heaven like Super girl. It's so obvious that Christianity was invented as a political tool by Constantine and has been steadily revised ever since.
It's also painfully obvious that the idea of Christian Hell was invented to enslave people with fear and coerce them into obedience to the Romanized status quo.
Your religion is so full of lies I have to wonder what makes you think you are better than everyone else?
2007-09-25 06:19:20 · answer #5 · answered by square 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're pretty much a dictionary definition of 'stupid'...
First, you slam people for believing in Wicca, but then you believe in Monotheism which is just as empirically unprovable. If Wicca is stupid, then so is your Monotheism.
Second, using the old Turn or Burn argument is, well, dumb. People who don't believe in your invisible cosmic bogeyman aren't going to be fazed by the threat of a non-existent Hell. If anything, non-believers are going to be driven AWAY from a religion that is so obsessed with damnation.
"I don't care if you don't believe in it. you will figure it out when you are burning there"
And maybe you'll figure out you're a fool on your deathbed.
"tell me, what in your right minds makes you think you will not suffer eternal damnation?"
Because your religion is just as bogus as Wicca or Satanism.
"What makes you think you are better than anyone else?"
Oh, because I don't get my rocks off by wishing damnation on anybody who disagrees with me...
2007-09-23 18:40:51 · answer #6 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I thin peopel are even more stupod when they beleive such RIDUICULUS things such as Im gonna burn in hell when I die, just cuz I don't beeive in some stupod religous crap
and Yeah, I just am better thatn everyone else
2007-09-25 18:30:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Buddha the evidence is out there.
Big fish eating small ones.
So many animals kill other animals,
take their lives out of their body
in order to feed on their flesh.
There is violence everywhere
and therefore suffering.
This is the evidence that the world is
created by & ruled by negative forces.
Look around , only the mean and dishonest
become prosperous.
Buddha says:
Everywhere there is suffering in the world
God is a mental construct.
and
The devil (and its army) is real.
Besides ,
You have no escape.
It will catch you one day and demand
the very life out of your body
as the wages of sin(desire).
Buddha says : Leave the desire
in case you want to escape from the devil.
And there is no one to save you.
And no one can save you,
except
YOU
yourself.
2007-09-23 19:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something tells me you have never read the book
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
You will NEVER change someones mind with that approach. It may not be your intention but it sounds like you would be HAPPY for people to go to hell. I don't sense a lot of compassion for people without God. If I wasn't already a Christian I would totally be turned off to Christianity if I was insulted like that. I don't agree with the beliefs of a lot of people but I can disagree without being disagreeable.
2007-09-23 19:03:28 · answer #9 · answered by jubka1 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why are some people so stupid?
How is it that someone can actually believe they and they alone know the truth.
Why are they so arrogant to believe they know who or what is out there and that they can decipher what whoever or what ever is out there wants?
What make them think they alone know truth from false?
What makes you think you are better than anyone else?
;o)
Good topic! Me thinks somehow it was interest that sparked this topic and not your real views! Good one - it's been interesting!
2007-09-24 07:06:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
when someone says they worship satan it's usally to piss people like you off, no other reason. You'd have to be a nut to think you're some kind of wizard. just like you'd have to be a nut to think a guy put two of every animal in the world on a big boat, or to think that a guy could get swallowed by a whale and spit back out unharmed.
2007-09-23 18:37:04 · answer #11 · answered by fleabis 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋