Are you kidding? You're even WORSE!

I'll tell you why as soon as I'm done opening Microsoft Word.

(just kidding)

Sounds like a hell of a time.

Wow. Evidently, all religions DO lead to the same place.

I retract my arguments.

That applies to every religion. All religions are constructed; they have to start somewhere after all. Does it matter if it was some weirdo carpenter in the first century AD or a bunch of overemotional poets high on absinthe in the nineteenth century?


Yeah, go ahead, pile all the blame on the Catholics, like they don't have enough guilt already.

More obviously constructed, then.

I like the retard with a speech impairment up on a mountain that got made fun of back at camp.

I understood what you meant the first time I read that. It took me four more tries to figure out exactly how you said it, though. And I thought I had horrid sentence structure at times.

Anyway, I'm pagan. I don't care that the concept of neo-paganism is incredibly new, relative to most religions. I don't care that actual pagan beliefs were "watered down." I believe what I believe, and that's the category that's the best fit.

On the topic of "watered down" beliefs. How can you water down a belief? You either believe something, or you don't. You can water down a belief system, of course. It happens all the time even with various Christian denominations; each of them could be portrayed as a diluted and muddled version of most of the rest. That doesn't really matter though, unless you're a reconstructionist who claims to have resurrected the entire belief system as a whole. Not many do, because most ancient belief systems are ludicrously out of place in the modern world, as evidenced by how whole books of the Judeo-Christian scriptures are basically ignored.

I believe many silly things that cannot be proven, and some that have been more or less disproven. I know this, and it doesn't cause me to believe in them any less.

Thank the Gods! I'm not alone! *Glomp*

... yes... can we all remember this thread was created to identify the various Pagans who play Lusternia...?

I am a old way Finnish Pagan but I draw on somewhere between shamanism, kalevala-beliefs, wicca and asatru. I am a high priestess of a Coven and I celebrate the cycle of the year. I am rather surprised that not many of us are actually Pagan, given that pagans very often hold an interest towards fantasy.

Aye, it has been known that Hitler used quite a few pagan rites and even tried to launch his quite own belief system of some kind of sun worship.

lol this one I found humorous, from what I've read some of the old old beliefs that the christians stamped out had their holidays assimilated... Yule/Christmas (it's borg-like yet uncool somehow), I also remember something about teachings that were hidden with a holy and angelic appearance so that their beliefs would be preserved. Others say that their families kept their belief secret and passed them down, because it's now safe(and I mean seriously because there have been laws only recently removed that banned witchcraft and all that) they've started talking about them.

Either way I generally identify as a Pagan and agree with the belief that all gods are just facets of the one, I'm not one for big social things so I'm just solitary. One of the reasons I can't believe in the bible is simply because of the hate it brings and has brought, that and the mistranslations.