The Ocelot
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How come so many Pagans detest Christianity?
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Master Hoomer said:http://www.whywiccanssuck.com/xtian.html
Runt said:Many pagans are not comfortable with Christianity because it has a tendency to make them feel worthless as human beings. Christianity tends to teach that humans are inherently evil, we are like scum to God, we must beg for forgiveness for even the smallest moral transgressions or face eternal torture. For many pagans, the Christian God seems not like a God of Love, but a jealous monster God of Hate.
What kind of God would torture its children eternally while claiming to love them? This, for many pagans, is a contradiction that implies to them that the "fear factor" of the Christian religion (hell, hell fire, demons, satan, etc) is simply a means of controlling people, and holds no truth-- if you believe you are inherently "bad" and that "bad" people go to Hell, and if you believe that the only way to AVOID Hell is not just to ask for forgiveness, but to go to church, support your church, get new followers to go to your church, KILL for your church (it's all happened in history)... well, then it is easy to believe that something is definitely controlling your mind, your time, your money, your morals... and it's not Satan!
Pagans prefer to see that humans are inherently GOOD, that God loves us despite our flaws and gives us many chances (many lives) to gradually learn and perfect ourselves.
Maize said:Master Hoomer said:http://www.whywiccanssuck.com/xtian.html
Not all Pagans are Wiccan, MH.
Master Hoomer said:Just read the link....it sums up a lot of "pagan" attitudes towards christians....
Master Hoomer said:Personally I see NO conflict between christianity and Paganism....Christianity is really prewtty darn pagan...(sssh dont tell the christians)....
(krshna and christ both mena annointed one)