Interesting.
Yes–all things religious need to be scrutinized with a critical eye. That is very Catholic.
Firstly, where do you get that notion that truth revealed in a cultural context doesn’t shift cultures in some violent spasm?
Religion, Skadi, is actually about relationship. That’s what religion means. It comes from the Latin word,* religare*, which means: relationship.
But it is in the lore, right?
So you do believe this for all women who choose abortion–even if she chose it because she just didn’t want a baby, and wasn’t raped?
I think it was Bishop Fulton Sheen who said the bible is not about our search for God but rather God’s search for us.
Beings that you were raised in the Catholic Church, don’t you sometimes get afraid when you totally deny Jesus and follow a false god, According to of course you Catholic background. Especially when it is breaking one of the ten commandments.So, seeing as there are a couple other threads thrown up by people of various faiths for questions on their religion i figured id do it too.
“Ask a Pagan” is a very broad term though and Paganism is not itself a religion but a blanket term for many who form a sort of community. In addition, various Pagan faiths are very eclectic and there is no Bible or Catechism to outline beliefs, but I have a good general knowledge of paganism (and the occult sense I know the questions are coming) and I’ll do my best to answer any questions.
I was raised catholic and went k-12 in the catholic school system, learned catholic doctrine and apologetics, and understand Catholicisms teachings pretty well. So I look forward to any questions you may have or discussions that may come.
Stay classy Catholics
I’m curious if you find world history and events in time as known things?
Things that are well recorded or supported by archeological evidence. Events like the Battle of Kadesh, The Exodus (at least in the sense of the Jews leaving Egypt), and the Battle of Cannae, while happening thousands of years ago, are attested to (often by multiple sources) and have archeological evidence. Thus we can know with quite a bit of certainty the occurred. But events such as miracles depicted in ancient writings when people had little to no knowledge of science should be taken with a grain of salt in my opinion. weather its the story of the splitting of the red sea, the works of Jesus, the tale of one of Buddhas followers walking on water, or any other supernatural event that has only a single source and no archeological evidence.
No, not really. I fell out of Christianity because the older I got and the more I learned about it the more absurd some of its doctrines and teachings sounded to me. I saw people imposing god on everything. I was a pretty hardened deist by high school and still am quite a bit. That might have been a bit young but as I became older and began to really start looking at religion rather than simply distancing myself from it I still found Christianity to be… not something I believed. The drift was not sudden, and in fact I started praying again for a point after my grandpa died, but over time as I grew older I looked at Christianity objectively and decided I didn’t believe it. No matter how much fire and brimstone the street preachers on campus throw at me, no matter how genuinely concerned for me that missionary may try to appear, I don’t fear what they say. I honestly have concluded I think they are wrong. I can respect them and I respect most Christians, but its a respectful disagreement.
I would say that for a woman who is raped. I don’t think anyone should have an abortion out of convenience. Also If its between the mother living or both dying as happened at that hospital a few years back I would say it would be permissible. Now with that said, im not one who believes religion and government should be put together, so if abortion came to a vote I dont really know what way I would vote. It would take alot of deep though and contemplation.
It had mostly died out by the time of Christianization. What was common by the end of the Viking age was to simply dedicate the fallen after a battle as a sacrifice.
Not anywhere really, The Eddas arn’t like the bible in that the gods don’t talk directly to humanity. Thus things come from tradition, and from the example of the gods.Hiya, Skadi.
Could you answer this one, please?
No i dismiss the NT because of the motives of the men who wrote it. Like I said earlier there isnt a book on earth that wasnt written by a man putting pen to paper or typing it up.
There are people in the world who actually claim to be witches? I did not know that…
What were their motives?
To present Jesus as divine.
What did they have to gain by supposedly inventing Christianity?
You’re never heard of the religion called “wicca”? Seriously?? Interesting…
Yeah, I have heard of a religion called Wicca. Didn’t know anything about it. Just checked it out: “Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion.”
