What is "true Christianity", apart from a "no true Scotsman"-fallacy?Surely you cant blame that on true Christianity.
What is "true Christianity", apart from a "no true Scotsman"-fallacy?
I mean besides the labels.
I dont know anything about the second part of that response.
Edit: Im having a feeling that Im not supposed to respond to those posts.
What are the perceptions you have on the Neo-Paganism movement?
Jesus himself talks negatively about pagans in the bible, so I take from that that I should stay away.
I wasn't aware that I was scared of Paganism.
I'm also not entirely sure why I should be scared.
Did they put a whoopee cushion on my chair again? I told them to stop doing that.
-CryptoLutheran
It's not hard to stay away from Paganism since we generally don't proselytize, have a house of worship every three blocks, or insist on having monuments all over public/government property.
Staying away from Pagans might be more difficult as our numbers grow and we integrate into society with the expectation of having the same rights as everyone else.
No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.
It is illogical to suggest that my belief in God is somehow an unreasoned assertion.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't most of the pagan religion lost knowledge, no one truly knows what they believed or warshiped (British pagans) it's lost knowledge so must make it a difficult religion to follow? takes guess work?
Some aspects of paganism is around today in the public domain IE horoscopes, movies (harry potter) TV shows ect, good luck charms.
I personally try to stay away from all
Your unreasoned assertion was to claim that Christianity's internal rivalries and conflicts (i.e. religious wars and persecution between protestants and catholics, etc.) do not count because No True Christian would do such a thing.
How do you think the Creeds came about? It was all about pinpointing "heretics".
As far as religious tolerance is concerned, it's not going to win any prices anytime soon - neither in relation to the historical perspective, nor in view of the present.
Admittedly, Christianity has spent most of its potential for persecution on divergent Christian groups in recent centuries: Catholics persecuting protestants, protestants persecuting catholics, protestants persecuting protestants, etc.
But that does not necessarily mean that they are embracing the presence of other religions - they've just been too minuscule in centuries past to merit too much attention. Christianity's stated goal is to convert everybody - so there's not that much room for divergent world views left, is there?
Lock the thread, no answer given can be more complete or perfect then this one.People fear what they do not understand.
Admittedly, Christianity has spent most of its potential for persecution on divergent Christian groups in recent centuries: Catholics persecuting protestants, protestants persecuting catholics, protestants persecuting protestants, etc.
Yes, much was lost and a lot of what we do have is biased. But the Neopagan paths are largely dynamic and experiential. We through learn primarily through practice and we can rediscover what was lost.
Those have nothing to do with Neopaganism. Horoscopes are silly, Hollywood fantasy is nothing like real Neopaganism, and the faith goes way beyond charms.
We much prefer people staying away than shutting us down (not accusing you of shutting us down; just speaking generally).
I believe Satan is at the heart of most pagan religions, using magik you call upon demons, take Wicca for example it is based around calling upon spirits to preform magik, the origins of Wicca lead to Gardener and Alistair Crowley (famous statanist) watch the below video to learn about Alistair Crowley (Wicca is the work of Satan)
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jsm6WI5i7p0
I believe Satan is at the heart of most pagan religions, using magik you call upon demons, take Wicca for example it is based around calling upon spirits to preform magik, the origins of Wicca lead to Gardener and Alistair Crowley (famous statanist) watch the below video to learn about Alistair Crowley (Wicca is the work of Satan)
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jsm6WI5i7p0
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