ok. i give up what is a pagen & what do they believe.?
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Pagan is a prechristian religion.  It's mainly based on understanding the cycles of nature and living with th earth.  It makes much more sense to me than modern religions like Christianity.
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Why are you so p!ssed off, sounds to me that you are not very secure in what you believe. Usually that's the case when someone continues to say that they believe something they themselves know is ridiculous.  All I have to say is your system of beliefs is weak and unstable your flaired temper tells me that your actually do not believe what you say you believe and it\npisses  you off when someone challenges it. You do not know how to defend it so you throw a childish fit and call names.  Grow up, get a live and believe some thing you can believe in.  God is God and you aren't big enough to believe Him away. He is there whether you like it or not and He is unmovable and will still be hear when you are dead and buried and He will cause the grass to grow on your dead carcase while your soul continues to die in hell.\n\nBe Blessed though you do not believe in God, He believes in you and waits for you to acknowledge Him.
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Friend - They use FEAR and we are in fearful times.  I apologize for my evangelical brothers and sisters.  GBU
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i am in a similar situation.  I want to understand what is out there.  how others believe and all of that.  I have been doing alot of reading.  Looking stuff up on the net. Asking people questions.  I am at a point where I want to go to places and see what they do what they go through.  I want to see what they see and try to feel why they do.  I want to know why they believe in what they believe in.  Dont be afraid to search and ask.  You might get slack for it.  Ppl tellin you its not necessary. (i have gotten that.  they say this is the faith theres no need for all this)  It isnt their journey, its yours.  If there is anything in particular you are curious about.  start there.  And as you go your search will guild itself. And most of all listen to your heart.  if your search leads you some where and your heart and soul are ok with it, stick with it.  if your soul or heart says stay clear then listen to it.  Thats what the journeys all about.
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See if its ideas stand up on their own merit.  Do virgin women give birth to babies?  Is the admonishment to men to "leave your families and follow me" or denying your own mother in public, good indicators of nuturing family values?\n\nIf its truth, go with it.  But if its not, or you have to take someone's word, no matter how trustworthy, then it isn't known to be  true.  Think it through for yourself; listen to your heart and your head.  Don't compromise or discount yourself in your seach for truth.  Truth has to be evident to more than just the proponent; it also must please the skeptic.
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you should try posting a question on the spiritual forum... They FREAK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Sometimes they don't even read my comment.  They just look at my avitar and "REPORT"
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I did have a similar situation and I left that religion. If you truely believe in something you will not have issues with it, like you said here that you have issues you can't resolve. If you truely believe in something you can't take part and leave another part.\n\nYou said everytime you hear them speak of the church you know it is true. You need to know it is true though it beliefs and teachings not what other people say about a church. What people say and do, don't make something true. Thats one of the reasons I left Christianty.\n\nLook inside your heart. Does it really all make sence, does it really seem like the truth. If you do this and it does then you should not have any issues. If you still have issues maybe it is not as true as you feel it is.\n\nPray to God, any only God. Ask him to guide you to the truth. God willing he will lead you to the one true faith.
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Here's their website: www.promisekeepers.org\n\nThey SOUND good.  Their message sounds like one telling men that they need to be responsible and caring and loving...but the undertone is one of misogyny.\n\nThe philosophy is that the world is messed up because men have yielded their power to women in a misguided attempt at equality, when God has determined the proper positions for men and women and we as men should get back to the promise we give our wives...to HAVE (possess) and to HOLD(restrain)...to protect and cherish.  "I'm sorry that I've not done my job as a man honey...I'm going to do it now...you can go back into the kitchen and cook, I'll do all the hard stuff, like thinking and making decisions for us."
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i'm not one of those people you described but i'm wondering why do you go to this site and ask people their opinion if you are not willing to listen to what they want to say? stay away or be respectful of the beliefs of others. go figure! peace, love & unity. cheers!
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I am Wiccan, and have been denied work today, in this day and age, because of my beliefs. They were very specific, "You do not have to answer this question, it is voluntary, are you a Christian?" my reply was "no", they said "thank you. we won't be calling, this is a Christian office." I would not deny my goddess, I am not a hypocritical Christian...
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Some people belive in them, some don't.  Some people will tell you yes, some will tell you no.  You just have to choose what to believe.  I, personally, believe they are there.  But that's just me.  You have to make your own desicion.
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Apathetic Agnostic... its more of a philosophy tho...
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Well, I didn't have to open the above link to know what it would say.\n\nYour question was extremely eloquent, and very valid to question these things.\n\nIn all fairness, I gave up on religion (at least my religion, catholicism, anyways), as I did not agree with many of their outdated views. They continue to ban homosexuality, rating it as a sin, and continue not to allow women priests.\n\nBeing gay myself, I know, as you know yourself, that this is how you are made. This is who you are. No amount of praying or trying to be anything else is ever going to change that.\n\nDeep down, I think we all know that this is how God made us. Infedelity, murder, greed, all easy to see how they are sins - they are perpetrated and can be redeemed... but wanting to be in loving relationships with members of your own sex - I could never understand how sinful that is.\n\nI know this is how I always was, I know that there is a lot of good I do in my life, and I try to lead a good and honest one, by being kind to my fellow human beings, respecting them, and overall trying to do some good.  The fact that I want to spend my life with a man instead of a woman - well I am positive that if I'm going to hell, it won't be because of this - how can it possibly? \n\nThe people on this earth who say we will go to hell, have not personally died and witnessed where straight and gay people go after they die. Hence they have no authority to tell us what will happen to us in an afterlife, and your guess is as good as theirs.\n\nAt least you know this is who you are - do not fight it, live a good and happy life, try to do good and live a moral life - one that you will be happy and fulfilled with, not one you will be miserable in and struggle to overcome something that is not overcomable. And know that while some will think you are sinning, there are others who are sure you are not. Its all opinion anyway.\n\nNo quoting bibles guys, the law of the bible is more strict than what is being practiced now anyway - statements such as slavery being acceptable are clearly wrong in this day and age, so why can people selectively discard these statements but hold onto its thoughts about homosexuality?\n\nToo many youths are depressed and sometimes comitting suicide due to society's inacceptance to gays. This has got to end. It's been a long time coming.
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Mrs. B and The Bubba666 - what's a pair of boring, uptight, sexually strangulated frigid biatches doing bothering to (not even) answer the question, huh? This is Yahoo ANSWERS, not Yahoo uptight opinionated dozy freakshow know-it-alls.\n\nGo and answer a question that you can...actually answer!
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If you study religeon, most of them believe in a time of "tribulation" where all souls who follow said religeon will be "saved" and wisked off to a brand newe beautiful world full of all things nice and cozy. THIS world is irrelevant. They focus on abeyance to thjeir writs. Nothing else matters to them, really. In their view its a distraction from grace. :)
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AMEN\n\nAnd to the person that stated this was a forum and inappropriate .... check the heading this post fell under.  RELIGION and spirituality.  If it's going to offend you...stay away from it.
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Okay, I give up, whats the answer?