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I am a Satanist. The religion is NOTHING like the media makes it out to be. Satanists do not worship the devil; we don't even believe in Satan as an actual deity. Children and animals are held in very high regard because of their innocence and purity, so eating babies or sacrificing goats would actually be a very UNsatanic thing to do. Back to the original subject... I don't have a very good understanding of Paganism, but I am open to just about any religion :) The most important thing is that it works for you and your lifestyle. |
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I also seem to remember that there are more than two kinds of Satanism, but I'm by no means an expert so I could be and probably am wrong. [/butting in] |
I'm mostly a Discordian, a religion that worships the Greek goddess of Chaos, Eris, but I also believe in the other Greek gods as well. I revere them and feel them in my daily life, but the Greek religion itself doesn't call to me quite so much. Discordianism has been described both as a joke posing as a religion and a religion posing as a joke. Both, I think, are true in their own way. We don't take ourselves or our goddess seriously and we don't pray if we can help it. Eris has an... odd sense of humor and it's best you know exactly what you're praying for and be extremely careful about your wording.
I like it because it teaches there must be balance between order and chaos. While chaos ruling over all isn't good, neither is too much order. I also like that YOU are the one responsible for what's going on in your life and the world itself. If you want it to change you have to be willing to do something about it rather than just expecting some invisible person in the sky to do it for you. However I have to confess I've never been able to give up hot dog buns. |
I was raised as a Catholic, but it was a very liberal Catholocism as my parents were simply raising m with what they were. When I was 12 I began reading about Wicca and spend the next 10 years refining exactlly where on the pagan spectrum I was.
I went from what the Llewellyn books called 'wicca' to eccectic paganism to Celtic Recon and finally landed in Olympianism, aka Hellenismos, aka Hellenic Reconstruction. I've been honoring the Olympians and other Hellenic deities for about 4 years now, and feel totally at home. Most of my worship is rooted in history and tradition, but modern innovations can and have been incorporated into my worship as we're not exactlly living in Ancient Athens anymore :P |
I'm wiccan...
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I'm pretty much freelance right now studieing all the different religions and thier beliefs, Do you know how many different kinds of pegans there are? Cause i know of the several groups. Is it true that if your wicken your pegan but not always wicken if your pegan.
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Oh okay thought so, and from what I know they don't believe in Satan. But then again neither does anyone else but the Christians >.< yet they often get mistaken for Satan worshipers.
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That's because, as the Church spread, they found that they needed to either saint or demonize the gods and spirits worshiped in the areas that they conqured. Not to mantion the fact that, because they are monotheistic, any being that is worshiped that is not THIER God, is automattically a manifestation of Satan, trying to corrupt otherwise good people. I toook a class on this back in college and found it incredbly interesting, if you can't tell! |
I might look into that class :)
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Actually, it's only offered at the school I went to, which is in Salem, MA. One of the History profs got tired of all the wrong information floating around about the history of the Church and paganism and the Inquisition and all that. She's a Medeival European specialist, so developed the class. |
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