RE: Opinions on paganism?
August 17, 2023 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2023 at 4:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The christers do think that climate change and climate activism is a pagan religion. They're pretty sure "saving the earth" was the gateway drug that the secular conspiracy used to groom their children into witchcraft and satanism. It's banapants, but it's informed by a credible underlying fear. That natural religions are vicous competition for their childrens hearts and minds. As OI mentioned before, their demographics are cratering and paganism keeps blipping in and out as the fastest growing religion for usians. If captain planet saw jesus choke that fig tree, he'd have fucked him up.....with the power of heart, ofc - and we'd all cheer.
At any rate, sure, thinking of gods as personal and intervening is the definition of theism - and some pagans are theists and they'll see it that way. Others see nature as impersonal and intervening. Gods stand in for the sacred masculine, the sacred feminine. For a particular relationship we experience. They serve a ritual, ideological, or narrative purpose as a focal point for abstract and concrete ideas about the world and our interactions with it. On the other end, as far as you can get from theism, that everything we attributed to gods and the supernatural, both actions and the awe and reverence they've enjoyed, were misattributions of sacred nature.
It helps to keep in mind that superstition and religion are not interchangeable. All pagans are religious, not all pagans are superstitious.
At any rate, sure, thinking of gods as personal and intervening is the definition of theism - and some pagans are theists and they'll see it that way. Others see nature as impersonal and intervening. Gods stand in for the sacred masculine, the sacred feminine. For a particular relationship we experience. They serve a ritual, ideological, or narrative purpose as a focal point for abstract and concrete ideas about the world and our interactions with it. On the other end, as far as you can get from theism, that everything we attributed to gods and the supernatural, both actions and the awe and reverence they've enjoyed, were misattributions of sacred nature.
It helps to keep in mind that superstition and religion are not interchangeable. All pagans are religious, not all pagans are superstitious.
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