What religions do you consider to be "pagan" in comparison to your own?

Question

It seems that everyone has the right answer and everyone else is just full of shi_ too. The mormons hang out outside of retail establishments and try to find new subscribers on the sidewalks and in the parking lots. The jehovah's witnesses will travel deep into the ghettos to market their religion. Murderers and catholics alike wear christ around their necks. Any thoughts?

Does anyone know the guy that calls himself "achtung_heiss" ? achtung_heiss if you have a second why don't you answer this one. I'd like to have more of your intellectual diarrhea for my collection.

The mormons don't solicit for their religion outside of stores and what not as frequently and consistently as the jehovah's witnesses knock on doors. But I have seen plenty of times when they are dressed in white shirts, black pants, carrying backpacks and asking people walking in and out of the stores, "what's your name?" "are you fellowshipping anywhere right now?". They're out there, if you see them you'll know, have fun.

"gumby" do you think only christians and "good people" wear chains with christ around their neck? Well if that's the way it works I think it would be wise for all the defendants and co-defendants on trial for first degree murder to wear the most iced out piece of christ around their neck in the courtroom, the judge and jury will definitely be able to make the correct decision based on that factor.

Answer 1

It's kind of funny that "pagan" comes from the early days of the era when the Christian thought of himself as a "Soldier of Christ," and, on the same metaphor, the guy who still followed the old religions was a "paganus," a civilian or rustic - basically a hick. Hence the term "pagan." So it's really just a Christian insult that became a blanket term for all religions outside of the "Abrahamic" tradition.

Answer 2

For the record, I have never seen Mormons hanging outside stores and in parking lots.

Why do LDS as well as other Christians share our beliefs? We do it because we believe that Jesus asked us to. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we want to share our testimony of Jesus and His Gospel. It blesses our lives and we want to share that joy. If people accept it, fine. If they don't, that is their choice. But, we have done what the Lord asked of us.

What religions do I personally think of as pagan? Well, pagan of course as well as Islam and most of the other middle eastern religions, Unitarian Universalists, and any others that are not centered on the God of the Old and New Testament.

Answer 3

I think you mean to ask what ius heathen to you...not pagan.

pagan all ready has an established definition, feel free to look it up in Brother Webster's Dictionary.

Buddhism, taoism, shintoism, and other meditative eastern thoughts are not religions but philosophies. There are no gods involved with them, only states of self awareness.

oh an quit puicking on the Mormons./LatterDay Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 4

All religions contain some "paganism" .. Non religious traditions and customs get handed down. Even old religions leave forgotten meanings. Any time a "group" converts they do not sterilize all the customs and rites that they cherished before.
Christmas trees
Easter Eggs
Halloween
names of days and months
Hex signs on barns

Answer 5

You obviously have some baggage about this issue, but Pagan just means any pre-christian religion other than judaism.
Basically they are sun-god, earth god and nature worship religions people used to try to get good crops, good weather and good health.
Not sure why they are getting so popular again. Guess you can't take the cracker out of the European forever.

Answer 6

1 John 5:19 "We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one."

From the days of the week to planets in the sky are labeled from pagan entities but a follower of Christ will distance oneself from pagan practices that give glory to another other then to Jehovah God.

John 17:14,17 "I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not. I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. They are not part of this world any more than I am. Make them pure and holy by teaching them your words of truth."

Answer 7

I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I feel that those who celebrate pagan things, such as Christmas, are partaking in pagan activities.

As for traveling "deep in the ghettos" we go EVERYWHERE, including nice areas.

Answer 8

Well I'm considered a Pagan, W00T! I know my grandmother, as bad as it is, turns the lights off and locks the doors when the JW's come into the neighborhood. All religions are hypocritical of all other religions, all have pagan roots.

Answer 9

A pagan religion, to me, is any religion which actually worships something other than the One True God of Heaven. In my way of thinking, this means Islam is *not* a pagan religion while Buddhism, Hinduism, Satanism, and Wicca -- just to name a few -- *are* pagan religions.

For _illyann below:

>> Buddhism, taoism, shintoism, and other meditative
>> eastern thoughts are not religions but philosophies.
>> There are no gods involved with them, only states of
>> self awareness.

They have their temples and their idols -- so they are a religion and a pagan one at that.

Answer 10

I don't consider any religion to be "Pagan".

Different people believe different things & they pray in many different ways....but all of those prayers go to the same God no matter what name you call Him. ;)