Cristianity And The Crimes Against Pagans Essay

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Cristianity and the crimes against pagansWhen I started this report I knew that paganism existed as a religion beforeChristianity. I suspected that if Christianity developed after paganism then it wouldhave adopted some of the paganistic practices to attract followers. From myprevious studies I knew there had been some form of propaganda against thepagan religion. Through out my life, my personal feelings toward the ChristianChurch, specifically the Catholic Church, were those of distrust. The ChristianBible also left much to be desired. For example, Christians are not supposed toworship any graven image (implying an idol or a symbol) yet they pray to a cross.According to the Christian bible, the old testament, God giveth and God takethaway. Yet in the new testament God gives and the devil takes away. (3) Which isa contradiction of terms.There were several reasons why I felt I had to write this paper. In fact, therewere so many that I could not list them all without boring you. I will howeverdiscuss them all to one extent or another. The first and foremost reason was thefact that the Christian religion refuses to accept where its roots came from and stillslanders the source of its roots, paganism. Secondly, the Christian church hasperformed some of history’s most inhumane acts. Although the church hasapologized for some of its atrocities it continues to persecute people to this day.The church has stolen rituals and symbols and claimed them for their own whilecalling those from whom they stole the symbols from as evil. Christians havecalled pagans Satan worshipers because they did not take the time to find out thatto be pagan means to worship two or more gods and not one (i.e. God or Satan) . Tothis day Christians still refuse to admit they were and still are wrong aboutpaganism. The third reason is that the Christian religion tells people that if you donot believe in my god then you are evil and wrong. Finally, I personally have beentold that as long as you are not Christian (from the Catholic church specifically)then you are welcome in their church but you are not allowed to take part in theEucharist. During my discussion with Subject #1, he began explaining aboutJoseph and Mary, Jesus’ mother and father. He told me that not only wasJoseph a carpenter, as all know , but also a missionary. therefore, heexplained, Mary was called “the Virgin Mary” because she was the wife of amissionary not because she was a virgin. The wife of any missionary wascalled a vestal virgin. During the time of Joseph’s absences she was apracticed virgin. However, when she was with her husband they had sexualintercourse. Yet because Joseph was a missionary Mary was considered avirgin through the divine intervention of god. When Jesus started to preachhe was a philosopher, He did not speak about how the Jewish or RomanCatholic Religion should be run. Jesus’ speeches were a release for thepeople from the occupying Romans and the harsh Jewish temples. The newtestament was Jesus’ philosophy. In fact there are no original copiesbecause King James rewrote the new testament as he thought it should be. The Roman Catholic Church knows of the changes but refuses toacknowledge them. While continuing my discussion with subject #1, he disclosed themain reasons why he gravitated toward the pagan way of life. As a child hewas told to worship God and anything you want just ask from God and hewill give it to you. He felt that was selfish. Then he finally learned what thepentagram meant. Then he felt the need to learn more. He got curious andstarted to think on his own. To be pagan according to Subject #1 means tobe open to others about how you feel. He did not like the Church telling himthat he should control how he feels. As soon as he figured out how he felthe became a pagan. The pagan church, to him, is a church of free thinking.He told me that you must not just live you have to be open or you are notreally alive. The church told him to control his feelings. He did not agreewith this. That is when he became pagan. However, he told me something ofinterest, there could not be a pagan church because all pagans believesomewhat differently because the pagan religion allows free thinking. Intoday’s society persecution still exists. As an example Subject #1 wasaccepted by his friends in the church but shunned by the adults. He hasnever been attacked by someone but he has been verbally assaulted.Jehovah Witnesses tell him he is going to hell and they try to force him tochange his ways. Pagans vs. Satanic cults. In the Satanic church they sacrifice avirgin by sodomizing her with a wafer that is stolen from a church. Inpaganism nothing like that has ever occurred. The Satanic church is areversal of Christianity and they are being anarchical. The Christian Churchattacks the satanic groups because in the public eye they are pagans anduse this one group out of 200 and say they are all evil.Christianity and the Salem witch trials. After the long discussiondescribed above I wanted to hear the pagans version of the Salem trials.He told me that in Salem there were witches but the witch trials resultedfrom a judge who did not like one person and was upset with how thecommunity was responding to the person. I inquired if it was related to thegirl having seizures. He responded by stating that seizures were common. The witch trial was about removing the people that the judge disliked. Hetold me that most people were just inter