RE: any pagans?
March 22, 2014 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2014 at 5:32 pm by Phatt Matt s.)
(March 22, 2014 at 2:38 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Pagan is simply the beliefs of the people. It's where we get the word "propaganda," or "what you tell the populous."
Paganism is usually related to animism, or like futile says the mother goddess, historically a direct opposition to Christianity and its' "father" deity, which ironically would be masculine, feminine, and neuter. Nevertheless, the tie between paganism and "devil worship" is largely created by missionaries.
At most, the only "worship" in most pagan traditions is placation: making the evil spirits happy or imitating them so they leave your village alone.
What we now know as Wicca originated as a neo pagan revival in the 1950's.
Yeah I know that pagan Religions have exorcisms as well. Hinduism for example. However, the Deities that Pagans worship ("the Gods of the Gentiles") are called Demons in the Old Testament.
A lot of Pagan Religions do have magicians, Shamans, Sorcerers, Medicine men/women, Witches, warlocks, ritual, sacrifice, chanting, Seances, etc.
