[gothicusmaximus]

And although I agree that weepingblood is unstable and more than a little bit hilarious, I was somewhat perplexed that one of the major elements of the assault on Christianity into which that thread soon degenerated was the insistence that Christian mythology is 'silly' by people who are religious themselves.

I find that, typically, when I ask someone why they believe in the Christian god, they'll either fail to produce a coherent answer, usually indicating that they were indoctrinated in the Christian faith at a young age and never questioned the veracity of its tenants, or claim to have undergone a personal experience which somehow convinced them of the Christian cosmology. Given that the former answer is one which the pagans who frequent this forum are unlikely to provide, I'd like to ask them, out of genuine curiosity: how did you come to hold your pagan beliefs? What happened to convince you that they're any less 'silly' than Christian theology?