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Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus
I'm not addressing those who are Atheists like myself, as we believe all religious beliefs are equally wrong, whereas christians and pagans choose one mythology over the other as 'truer', and I'm curious as to why. However, as I said in the original post, I've already asked this same question of many Christians- not to mention that on gnet specifically I rarely see Christians attacking Paganism, only Pagans attacking Christianity.
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Well I don't know who you've been talking to, but I have yet to come across any pagan who believes their faith to be " truer " than any other,
except for themselves. And they don't proselytise what they believe. It isn't a case of one being truer than the other. Things that I personally have said ,were never meant as an " attack " on Christianity as a whole. I merely disagree with a good many of it's tenets and doctrines, and stated why I do not follow it.
I cannot automatically dislike someone for being a Christian or identifying with Christianity, that just isn't me. I will however, react to people who tell me or suggest that Paganism is " evil " and has something to do with the Christian idea of the devil, because that is just plain inaccurate and inflammatory. I simply inform, firmly and as calmly
as I can, that this is not true. Certainly people as individuals can be vile and so on, but that is just people and has nothing to do with what faith they follow.
Christianity has it's good points and bad, good people and bad, just like Paganism. I would never tell you that any form of paganism is , as a collection of earth based faiths more " true " or in some way perfect than Christianity because that definitely isn't the case. Everything always needs to be improved in some way. In
all faiths.
If it works for you and doesn't bother anyone else then great, I have no problem. If you don't believe in any form of deity fine. I really couldn't care less.
In the past on G.net, I personally have not seen a great amount of mudslinging going on between Pagans and Christians, without there being a reason for it, such as an inflammatory comment. I have seen far more "attacks" on Christianity from the Atheists of the site ( I do not mean specifically you, just in case you were wondering ).
As I've said before, no one will
know until they're dead, and when you are there probably won't be a lot you can do about it anyway.