It's just a social thing isn't it? You're atheists who like to pretend, aren't you?
2007-10-11 03:37:34 · 20 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm an Atheist.
2007-10-11 03:43:17 · update #1
I believe in the Celtic gods as much as Christians,Jews and Muslims believe in the Abrahamic god and atheists believe there is no god.
2007-10-12 14:43:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes in fact I do believe in the my God and Goddess. It really can't be too much of a social thing seeing as I am a solitary and dont know many other Wiccans or pagans in general. Actually the people I know are a wide array of beliefs. some Athiest, some Christian, some Muslim, and some Agnostics. I find that a wide array of knowledge makes for less stupidity lol.
2007-10-12 11:05:30 · answer #2 · answered by Lorena 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Uh......no.
I don't believe The Earth Goddess persay. All my gods have names.
I have met several and there is no doubt in my mind they exist. They are my bloodlines, my elder kin and my gods. Social? Why on earth would it be a social thing? All we do is get ridiculed for what we believe?
Asatru is not tree hugging, peace loving, crystal carrying hippies. There is nothing "trendy" about it I assure you. It is a religion and a WAY of life. I am lucky in that I know a LOT of pagans off line and on. As a matter of fact, I have fellowship tomorrow night. :)
2007-10-12 10:30:38 · answer #3 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
"Social thing"? Obviously you know nothing about Pagans. I'd bet that most of us are solitary and only socialize with others occasionally. That's because we are far too individualistic to want to follow rules and do things the way someone else tells us to. And yes, I believe in many goddesses AND gods. We see deity in every living thing. I don't think that is an atheist idea.
2007-10-11 03:47:58 · answer #4 · answered by Cheryl E 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I really do follow lol Nope, it's not a social thing. If you saw some of the fluffies that live near me, you would definitely NOT think it was a social thing rofl!!! Nope, not an atheist... though at one time in my life I was agnostic for a time - but that was after all the Christianity stuff I went through after hearing over and over that I needed to take an honest look at it.
Pagan
2007-10-11 03:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by River 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I used to. I now call myself agnostic, yet even when I considered myself Pagan, and talked of and to the Earth Goddess, (Ma, Danu, Anu etc) I was aware that I was addressing not so much a 'deity' as the philosophical embodiment of the Earth/Nature as a symbol, a life force, a nurturing yet unrepentant power that is essentially feminine in nature. I saw 'evidence' of the 'Goddess' in other women, in female animals, in crops, in seasons etc.
I grew to consider her as more of a parable, an allegory, the true nature of a 'spirit', something that exists as both a 'symbol of' and as a physical manifestation. I felt the 'Goddess' working in my menstrual cycle, my lust to reproduce and to love, my green fingers, my virginity, motherhood and now approaching-crone-ness! The 'triple-aspect' is a powerful symbol also. Birth, life, death.
Part of it lives in me still, and I respect/love Nature with the utmost humility and feeling.
So there you have it. If that makes sense. I believe in the Earth and in the feminine as a powerful thing, and so She is alive in art, feeling, nature and spirit.
It's a different thing than literally believing in an 'intelligence' (like a human one) that conducts **** from above.
I didn't really study it, I just 'felt' it, and read and wrote some poetry. I'd call it a poetic adherence and respect to the Feminine side of Nature, which is maybe humanity's most ancient 'religious' experience: the 'Magical' mother who gives birth and feeds new life. Check out the 'Venus' figurine.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfgoddess.html
2007-10-11 03:49:18 · answer #6 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yep, I believe in the "earth goddess". No, it isn't a social thing.. how many people are interested in being on the fringes of society and treated like pariahs?.. and my atheist friends don't pretend, either ;)
2007-10-12 10:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by Kallan 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am a wiccan I follow the Great Mother And Great Father. No its not " Just a Social thing" Why don't you educate your self on some of the religions that fall under it.
Goddess Bless
2007-10-12 10:40:41 · answer #8 · answered by Christinej 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe in whoever it is that I follow. I wouldn't follow something that I thought was imaginary. And as a solitary eclectic, socializing really has nothing to do with it.
2007-10-13 08:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do I believe in an Earth Goddess?
Why yes sir, I do.
I'm so sorry that your sense of self worth seems to be tied up in what other people believe, perhaps in time you will grow out of it.
2007-10-13 04:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've decided to accept the possibility that ALL gods/goddesses exist in some form or another. I do not worship any of them though. I figure if a deity really wants my worship, he or she or it will show up and tell me so in person. So far, that has not happened.
2007-10-11 04:07:23 · answer #11 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋