Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Ok ..im odd when it comes to Religion...i pray to both God...singular..and the Greek Gods...im curious to know if anyone else does that...and what others believes...are there any others who believe in the Greek Gods?
You are brave coming on here and asking such things in this forum, for you must know, but if you didn't you will come to know anything regarding the subject of religion always brings out the worst in some people, regardless of their own belief or disbelief, some people just enjoy ridiculing others, it strokes their ego.
But in answer to your question, I class myself as loosely pagan, loosely because I have too many questions that need answers before I can commit myself to belief in the Christian god, a case of wanting to believe, but good sense says no, until I can understand. Of what I believe which is not judeo-christian, I take influences from both hinduism and buddhism as well as beliefs from my native land, and I am a believer of the Gaia theory.
At times I have believed in various pantheons, Irish, Egyptian and Grecian, but have come to understand of what gods and goddesses that there existed, they have representatives through time and everywhere people have believed, which leads me to believe they are nought but the same, except one who may draw parallels with a hindu goddess, but not in the aspect in which I believed.
That one goddess I once believed was Grecian, but further research revealed she was in fact Thracian, but came later to Greece, Rome and then wherever. Gods and Godessess, I now take as aspects of ourselves and nature, things that at one time were given personification in order to gain familiarity so that believers may in what they worship take on board for themselves, they are in fact worshipping their own strengths and with that the strength of nature, which humanity belongs to.
That Thracian Goddess I know is an aspect of myself, a part of myself I have ignored and pushed away, but knowledge of that Goddess that haunted, I am now at peace with myself with regards to what that goddess represented through antiquity. As a result, it is not often now I think of my patron Goddess, but she is there to remind me when I go astray and with that I am alleged to my Goddess despite what I may come to believe in later.
We are here to believe what we want to believe, what makes sense to us, is for us only and no one except the bigoted can say otherwise. Belief be it religion or just belief is ours to own, what makes us feel comfortable and there humane to other lifeforms has just got to be a worthwhile system of belief no matter how disjointed or erratic it may seem to others.
Believe in what you want to believe and use that belief to be a service to yourself and others.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha
Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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