RE: Must all be proven?
October 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2009 at 5:02 pm by Violet.)
True, pagan is sometimes used to refer to 'Neopagnism' (IE wicca). Anyway, we were more concerned with the other definition (Non-belief in Christian god).
Atheism doesn't believe in gods. Not a single one of them.
Pagans don't believe in the Christian God. Therefore an atheist is pagan ('God' is a god )... but a pagan is not necessarily an atheist The pagan only has to not believe in the Christian God... all the other ones are fair game
Pagan was a word (also see
) coined by Christians during and after the Christian religious revolution. I assure you, groups such as Sol Invictus most certainly did not call themselves 'Pagan'
Atheism doesn't believe in gods. Not a single one of them.
Pagans don't believe in the Christian God. Therefore an atheist is pagan ('God' is a god )... but a pagan is not necessarily an atheist The pagan only has to not believe in the Christian God... all the other ones are fair game
Pagan was a word (also see
Quote:Fisrt.. note the sig. Second, yes there were many atrocities committed in the name of Christianity, especially during that period. If paganism pre-dated Christianity as you've highlighted then Saerules' statement that 'paganism means non christian' has to be false.The beliefs and people were there before Christianity. Pagan is a word only after it has become mainstream.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day