| View Poll Results: Are you religious? | |||
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3 | 10.00% |
| No |
  
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23 | 76.67% |
| Undecided |
  
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4 | 13.33% |
| Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll | |||
11-09-2009, 10:53 PM
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I am trying to get more connected to natural things like weather patterns and wondering whether I can tell in advance what it's going to do just by looking for signs. I used to love to garden barefoot - a friend of mine actually gardens au natural, but IMO that's just asking to be bitten all over!! Pagans must be extremely sad atm, but perhaps they believe that nature will after all win over humanity's rape of Earth.I think personal spirituality is much more important than being a member of an organised religion.
12-09-2009, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by SageCat
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Unfortunately a lot of people have the wrong idea of what being Pagan means, and immediately think of 'black magic' rites etc., but that couldn't be further from the truth. A true Pagan, as you rightly say Meg, is closely connected to the earth and nature in all its forms, and we honour and respect it in our own way.
I love the changing seasons and the natural order of things. Nothing is wasted in nature, everything grows, has its time and then dies back and this includes the human body which after death contributes to the cycle of growth
20-10-2009, 03:42 PM
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As Azz will be able to see I am on a different computer in our community room this morning, didn't even know they still had cable on it until now. The are putting new carpet in my apartment. I was brought up catholic and my children all went to catholic schools but I am no longer. It wasn't so much the priests who needed help but the cover up that did it for me. I believe there is a God but in what form, I couldn't even guess but I do know the God I believe in would not want killing and wars in the name of God.
I do respect anyone who has faith in their religion but I just feel it's not for me.
Catholic churches are being closed all over the states and I feel so sorry for those people who have kept it going for so long. If the Pope would sell just a bit of the gold in the Vatican it could keep these churches open for the people and feed the starving children of the world.
We can only believe what we believe and we are all different.
20-10-2009, 03:56 PM
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It's sad, so many stories are coming to light recently about the catholic church, what they did in Spain after the Spanish Civil War was horrendous, the priests supported Franco and thousands of children were orphaned whose parents had opposed him, I saw an elderly gentleman with tears in his eyes recalling what the priests had done to him from the age of four.
20-10-2009, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by nero
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It's sad, so many stories are coming to light recently about the catholic church, what they did in Spain after the Spanish Civil War was horrendous, the priests supported Franco and thousands of children were orphaned whose parents had opposed him, I saw an elderly gentleman with tears in his eyes recalling what the priests had done to him from the age of four.
20-10-2009, 09:53 PM
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I was raised Catholic, but have been lapsed since my late teens. I had trouble with so many of the Church's teachings: on abortion, that animals have no souls, unbaptised children not going to Heaven, gays, non-ordination of women ... the Church is so patriarchal.I do believe that there is a Something, a presence, that created the world, and hope there is a hereafter. But we will never know.20-10-2009, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by dandysmom
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I was raised Catholic, but have been lapsed since my late teens. I had trouble with so many of the Church's teachings: on abortion, that animals have no souls, unbaptised children not going to Heaven, gays, non-ordination of women ... the Church is so patriarchal.I do believe that there is a Something, a presence, that created the world, and hope there is a hereafter. But we will never know.
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