We generally are nature loving nuts, and tolerant of everybody.
Here's my question...
In the conversation with our Christian boy Maximus, everyone has said that the Christian Gods do not exist.
Most Pagans believe that Intent changes reality.
Christians for centuries have used their intent to create these deities.
Now I'm not sayting that they're all powerful, or even remotely like what they are currently portrayed as, but then, look at the greeks... you always say your Gods more powerful than the competion.
Now I've always believed that while these Gods may exist, I've come to believe in my Pagan worshipping that they simply don't care about non-worshippers. Why bother trying to send a pagan to your version of Hell (or Heaven for that matter), when that person's Deity may come and demand their worshipper back? If I was a goddess, I think it would simply be too troublesome to try to exert my influence that way over non-worshippers.
I feel like this may be a blasphemous comment, but how do we decide which gods are really gods and which aren't? In my Sociology course, I was taught that all religions started off as a small not widely worshipped cults. Since the divinity is in everything, by classifing this force into individual gods we simply made this power more accessible for people who have problems with the idea of something eternal and infinate.
My view (as I've said) is that although the Christian Gods may exist, they don't affect me any more that the Greek Gods do, because I don't fall within their Spheres of Influence. I fall (religiosly) under the Sphere of my Deity, and other Gods only have influence over me if I allow them to have it.
This is getting long-winded so I'l stop now, but I really want to know your views on how the system works. I hate defending the Christians, but in this case, we're denying Maximus his version of the Divine in an attempt to simplify what we believe. (Maximus, if you do read this, please get yourself to either a doctor, or a priest. You need help, and you don't seem to want to listen to the good advice that was offered earlier, and we can't seem to help you as you misconstued what we believed in).
Just to re-state, because I feel I've brought up Maximus's posts a little too much as example's, This is NOT a discussion on what we've commented on to Maximus, but a discussion on how we believe the systems of divinity works.
[-o< Now here's hoping that this post doesn't get a lot of angry replies...
