Pagans/Heathens?

Question

When not hanging around people of your faith, who do you prefer to be around and why? By this I am asking about which non-pagan persons you prefer. Personnally I like to hang out with Agnostics followed by Atheists. Always good conversation to be had there.

Ultraviolet

Which other online groups do you frequent? I am a member of several pagan groups on Myspace, but they seem to be mostly Wiccan and talk about Wicca. Myself being Celtic and Not Wicca, makes it hard to converse there.

Answer 1

Offline, don't know too many Celtic Pagans, at least, not in the area, so it's mostly whoever I end up befriending. And I've got a pretty varied bunch - Catholics, Jews, Born-Agains, Atheists, Agnostics... even a Zoroastrian (though I never get to see him enough.)

Personally, I enjoy having the diversity, gives me a wider number of perspectives to see things from.

Answer 2

I don't know any other Pagans/Wiccans in real life, but I do hang out with many online in another forum I frequent. And if I am not with them, then I prefer Atheists and Agnostics over others.


EDIT: I'm on gaiaonline.com a lot and frequent a Wiccan thread on there, as well as some Pagan and/or Wiccan guilds. I also consider the Pagans on here a community that I am part of :-)

Answer 3

Well, I have a group of friends that are like family to me. We consist of 2 Jews, 2 practicing Christians (3 if you count our Mormon), probably 4 others that claim to be Christian, 1 Mormon anti-Mormon (inside joke), 1 Deist, 3 Atheists, 2 Wiccans, 1 Buddhist, 3 followers of the religion of Tom (made up religion), and a few others. I probably forgot a few.

If I mentioned the sexual orientation, socioeconomic backgrounds, and our opinions on issues one would wonder why we even talk. Somehow we get along great, more or less. If I'm not on a computer or with my Pagan friends I'm hanging out with them.

Answer 4

I'm Christian and I enjoy the company of Jewish people, as well as Wiccans and Buddhists and New Age types.

Stereotypes aside, I find that Jews usually have a pretty interesting take on stuff. I like discussing (not debating) religion with them to see what we have in common, and I sit and LISTEN when they talk to me about the foundations of MY faith.

With regard to Wicca and other hippy dippy trippy folks, I like the whole back to nature thing, and I honor Mother Earth too. These are the folks who can tell you about herbal medicines, etc, a huge passion of mine. I don't cast spells and worship the earth but I do see the Goddess as the feminine expression of my own God. God is bigger than all of that anyway...God and Goddess is a matter of semantics.

I also like the personal power thing, and quantum physics (Richard Bach, Marianne Williamson type stuff) that comes from Buddhism and New Age philosophy.

I am deeply devout as a Christian but I can respect all these bodies of thought. I think we all have pieces of the puzzle.

And of course, sometimes it doesn't much matter what religion they are, you just chitchat or teach and learn about other stuff with them...where to find the best deal on chicken, how good is the latest movie, etc.

Answer 5

My Zen Baptist friend is always good company, as long as we stay away from politics.

And while I am a Wiccan, my mate is a Heathen. We are so diametrically opposed on certain issues, it spurs some really good conversations.

I like hanging around agnostics and atheists, as long as they don't try to play like they're intellectual superiors.

And while I don't care for Catholics in general, I do have one Catholic friend that I've some great discussions with.

Answer 6

As a Celtic pagan myself, I relate to what you mean. I like hanging out with Unitarians, Buddhists, Taoists, Atheists and Agnostics.. I do have some christian friends, but they're liberal types.. I have no fundamentalist friends of any faith.

Answer 7

Off line - my Marine Corps veteran friends, pagans, and my Mom's Red Hat group (yeah, I'm weird).

On line - pagans, atheists, Wiccans, Satanists, agnostics, Jews, Buddhists......... not in that order

Answer 8

When I have the time, I have pagan and non pagan friends and we are friends because we don't bring up politics nor religious differences. Yet, if they wish to talk religion or politics I will participate yet I will keep my own council here and not say a lot unless they ask me specific questions on the matter.

Answer 9

i've got not got self belief each God to exist. i've got self belief in maximum Gods I the two have experienced or suggested in some way or that credible human beings i comprehend have. For the Abrahamic God, I particularly have very own adventure and that i've got reached the top that he's a concept-style and not an actually deity. greater like a vile impostor who feeds on his followers. the actually Yahweh exchange right into a lesser deity of the classic polytheistic Hebrew pantheon. as far as a results of fact the devil is going: I particularly have concluded that he's an archetype and not an actually being. It represents the liberty from all regulations the Abrahamic "God" applies on his followers. purely as a results of fact i'm a polytheist Pagan does not propose i will settle for and have self belief each God to exist or be actual. to boot, i will by no skill communicate of those deities i do no longer comprehend of like Norse, Hindu and so on. finally, I particularly have the suitable to question despite I desire. i will question and in certainty even reject yet another's opinion/theory/despite. purely as a results of fact many human beings might unlike listening to that doesn't propose I might desire to mute myself. they might desire to enhance thicker skins.

Answer 10

I agree, I get on MUCH better with atheists, agnostics and other non-monotheist people.
I have met some tolerable Christians, both online and off, but I never made really good friends with anyone.