2007-10-11 09:51:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What exactly needs explaining? Some choose to celebrate what Mother Earth gives us. Shouldn't Christians understand that? I thought they believe that God is everywhere. Well, doesn't nature count?
We can see the Earth, touch it, taste it, feel it, it's HERE. We can feel her energies, her wrath, her peace, her energy-yet you think it's more feasible to worship someone in the sky that supposedly exists according to some 2000 year old book?
2007-10-11 09:56:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Well sounds like you met a Wiccan one who follow the Green path.
Yes many wiicans worship the Mother in her nature form...we also revere the earth and all the creatures upon it. This is an ancient relgion that dates back to neolithic times.
It wasnt called Wicca then, Im not sure if it even had a name then. Many cultures back then worshiped a Goddess and usually likened her to the earth and nature as this is where their food came from.
They saw this as magic that crops grew from the earth. They figured if they thanked Mother Earth for their food that she in return would gift them with bountiful crops...its called sympathic magic.
Today witches do much the same. We hold rituals at the harvest times to thank the Goddess for the bountiful crops that keep us alive. And in turn the Earth Mother gives us food so that we do not starve.
The Sun God, shines down and helps these crops grow...and the cycle of the life goes on.
Blessings,
Aviana
2007-10-11 10:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by aviana_snowwolfe 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There exists deep-seated early human tendency to personify and worship the Sky, Earth and Sun as deities or spirits, capable of influencing human life for good or evil. The treatment of the subject is according to races including Aryan, Vedic, Persians, Greeks, Romans Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Far East, India, Africa and America. This is sometimes referred to as Paganism.
2007-10-11 10:03:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whether you worship Mother Earth or not, you cannot deny the fact that without Her, you would not exist here! So long has Mother been used and abused. She has reached the point of cleansing. Hang on for She is starting to shake of the "fleas"!
2007-10-11 09:58:18 · answer #4 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I suppose if you have to worship something.. Dont see where worshiping gets anyone though
2007-10-11 10:45:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well...they probably don't buy the idea of worshipping some invisible all powerfull alleged super-being, and since they can actually see the Earth and interact with it..Voila!
2007-10-11 09:57:16 · answer #6 · answered by gilliegrrrl 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Think of the meaning of the word worship and how it applies to something you understand.
Now take the thing you understand and replace it with the earth.
2007-10-11 09:56:53 · answer #7 · answered by Jack P 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Nice to meet some-one down to earth.
2007-10-11 10:00:58 · answer #8 · answered by cheir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you see anything wrong with that? It isn't nearly as outrageous as the monotheistic religions.
2007-10-11 10:00:05 · answer #9 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not everyone sees any reason to seperate "creation" and "creator." She can be one and the same (on the universe or planetary level).
2007-10-11 09:58:51 · answer #10 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋