Paganism and WitchCraft Options

[SasukeNaru]

Anyone believe this? I do.. the whole spiritual realms and energy and ppl who can wield powers.. yea thats true but the old salem witchtrials and folklore spread by word of mouth changed what witches really represented. They communed with the earth and summoned energies from it by either praying to a god or just being in tune with the earth. This is all stuff ive read and history books.. if im rong and if someone here is wiccan then please correct me. just wanted a view on stuff like this

Also- Satanism has NOTHING to do with witchcraft

lol if ur wondering why i looked this up, it was for my RPG lol

[likeachild]

you know why so many people are fascinated by this stuff?
they fool around with it and then they find out "Hey, it's real!"
DUH
don't mess around with the supernatural
you don't know what you're getting yourself into

well, isn't Jesus supernatural?
yes, He is....but He is a different person altogether
Unchangeable. Unshakeable. Irreplaceable.
God is, God was, God will always be 100% LOVE.

Christianity teaches you to supress these natural feelings, the force of self-preservation for the greater common good. Why? Because it makes you a mindless sheep, following the flock and reciting quotes from an ancient book. You become so concerned with following a doctorine, staying "clean", supressing yourself, killing the being within you, your "soul" if you will, that you lose sight of what is really going on around you. There is no one controlling this mess. We create it, we live it. We will die in it. After we die, the world will keep spinning unless we blow it to oblivion or some natural disaster wipes it out. 99% of us will have no lasting impact on this earth to anyone except for our loved ones.

It is painful for people to accept that they are not important, that they are nothing more than a grain of sand upon the beach of humanity. Which is why the myths of creation, moral codes, fables, and tales of faith and belief have survived for so long in this world. People need to believe something, need to have something to hold onto. Some (if not most) people could not go on living without their beliefs to teather them to this world. It doesn't matter if they enjoy their life or not, as long as what comes after is pleasant. Hence Islam, where an infinite supply of virgins await the righteous in heaven. Deny everything in life and we'll give it you upon your death!!??!?!

whoa. a mindless sheep? no, Christianity is all about love. 100% LOVE. Read the Bible. The entire book is completely about God's love for me and you, and his majestic, masterpiece plan to save us. to redeem us. to LOVE us.
Maybe you'll understand if you actually find out what Christianity really is, instead of bashing down this form of Christianity that you believe, a belief which is NOT Christianity.

There is no one controlling this mess. We create it, we live it. We will die in it. After we die, the world will keep spinning unless we blow it to oblivion or some natural disaster wipes it out. 99% of us will have no lasting impact on this earth to anyone except for our loved ones.

No one controlling this mess? This place is only a mess because we made it that way. We have free-will because God loves his creation and gives it to them as a gift. If you abuse this privilege, you can't blame Creator for not controlling it, He gave us the earth to live in and to take care of. It's our fault for breaking a perfect world.
It has no reflection on the person who made it.

There are no great religions. All of them stink. Including the watered down form of Christianity that exists today.
Jesus is not a belief or a religion. It's not something you choose to believe. He is REAL whether you believe it or not. Some people just refuse to see it until the world crumbles under their feet and everything they ever believed to be true will be proven utterly false

[antix10_kos]

you know why so many people are fascinated by this stuff?
they fool around with it and then they find out "Hey, it's real!"
DUH
don't mess around with the supernatural
you don't know what you're getting yourself into

well, isn't Jesus supernatural?
yes, He is....but He is a different person altogether
Unchangeable. Unshakeable. Irreplaceable.
God is, God was, God will always be 100% LOVE.
whoa. a mindless sheep?  no, Christianity is all about love.  100% LOVE.  Read the Bible.  The entire book is completely about God's love for me and you, and his majestic, masterpiece plan to save us.  to redeem us.  to LOVE us.
Maybe you'll understand if you actually find out what Christianity really is, instead of bashing down this form of Christianity that you believe, a belief which is NOT Christianity.
No one controlling this mess?  This place is only a mess because we made it that way.  We have free-will because God loves his creation and gives it to them as a gift.  If you abuse this privilege, you can't blame Creator for not controlling it, He gave us the earth to live in and to take care of.  It's our fault for breaking a perfect world. 
It has no reflection on the person who made it.

There are no great religions.  All of them stink.  Including the watered down form of Christianity that exists today. 
Jesus is not a belief or a religion.  It's not something you choose to believe.  He is REAL whether you believe it or not.  Some people just refuse to see it until the world crumbles under their feet and everything they ever believed to be true will be proven utterly false

If you misinterpret what I say, then I will say it again and make it clear. I speak from my perspective as a Satanist and a non-believer in the Christian faith. I do not aim to shoot any person or their beliefs down. I do not need to have someone re-state that the Chrisitan faith is about love. I must say, most so-called Christians do not practice this faith of love. They practice a faith of selective hatred. This is truth, look at where we are today. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, people saying that Islam is fake, when all it is a bastardized form of Christianity. Closer to the roots of Christianity than the forms of Christianity being practiced today.

Christianity is too much confliction to be true. God's will is unshakable, yet if you pray hard enough, you can change God's will to make a sick loved one get better? How does that even begin to make sense? Sometimes you pray and pray for an answer, a cure, a solution, anything and nothing happens? When then, was your faith not strong enough, was God too busy to answer?? When bad things happen to small children, like being killed, taken, raped, or molested, is that part of "God's Plan"??? If it is, it's a sick and mutated plan. Or when those things happen, are they just dismissed as the "work of the Devil"?? If children are really pure and sacred, their souls are truly their own and sin is "untransferrable", then why do these things happen to children?? They can't be used as pawns to pay for their parents sins....It just frustrates me, that no one, nothing can ever explain these types of things...

Then, there is this whole concept of "love for all". I do not promote this concept because I feel that it lackluster. As madchenallein said in her previous post, "even horribly evil people can be nice to people who are nice to them". That much is true. I do know for a fact that some people only pretend to be nice to you to get something from you and then once they get it, forget that you exist. I decided long ago that I was not going to deal with the fickleness of this "love". If love was truly in the hearts of who call themselves Christian, then this world would not be in the state is in. I will love those who love me, whom I trust with my life and my heart. I will not give my heart to just anybody. I will not rely on a mutual belief in an oft-repeated collection of fables to bind me to other people. I will seek the connections myself and make them with the most worthy. I do not hate those that I do not love, I do not look upon them as lesser or worthless. I look at them and I feel nothing towards them, a bland neutrality if you will. I will help those that ask for it but I will not help those who are too weak to ask.

I will end because I must attend to other things in the RW. If you are Christian, I do not mean to insult you or your beliefs or at least I did not mean to in this post or my previous post on this topic. My posts only reflect my beliefs, not yours. Be strong enough to counter but realistic enough to know that this world is ours for the moment and we must make the most of it while it is.