THE FORSAKEN - Burning Bridges
POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Friday, August 18, 2006 14:24
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*awe and admiration* 
Teach me, oh great one!
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Gautama Siddharta
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Quote:LOL! It’s really not that big a deal. All it takes is to actually read the bible with an open mind.
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
*awe and admiration*
Teach me, oh great one!
The basic gist of my explanation is that there are two separate and contradictory creation stories in the book of Genesis.
The first creation story documents how all the Gods and Goddesses gathered together and performed the Great Creation, the 7 day create-a-thon, which culminated in Them creating men and women together as equals, and giving them “dominion over the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, the beasts of the earth,” etc. This is the famous “Let US create man in OUR image, in OUR likeness,” quote. It’s the only time the bible uses the plural in reference to god, so don’t try to explain it as the royal “we” since it’s not used anywhere else.
Now skip ahead a bit, and we get to the second creation, in which a single god goes off by himself in secret and creates a man and a woman (no where does it say Adam and Eve were the first ones). These poor, less than perfect beings were never given dominion over anything, and were created with the sole purpose of worshiping this single vain god.
This also explains why when Cain slays his brother Able, there is an entire city for him to run off to. This city is populated by the children of the first creation, who took pity on this poor lost soul and welcomed him into their community, where he proceeded to spread his own “original sin” throughout the population via his descendants.
Since the descendants of the second creation have no dominion over the earth, when we children of the original population demonstrate our God and Goddess given abilities we are labeled as witches and burned at the stake by the jealous children of the second.
The Pagans are the original population, and the Christians (descendants of Adam and Eve) came later with lesser abilities. This is all according to their own bible.
There’s a lot more to it, and many more examples of the single god being petty and cruel (the same god who lied to Adam and Eve in the garden - the snake actually told the truth!), but that’s the basic gist of the explanation.
We are the true people. We are the way. So says their own bible.
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You're my new hero, PaganPaul!
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You are so totally my hero!
I've tried to read the bible. Hurts my brain, it really does. I know it's supposed to be symbolism and stuff, and I wanted to read it just so I could really debate it, but I couldn't get very far. Much admiration to you for even wading through it all; the archaic language if nothing else! And that breakdown was just... Wow. Can you do that with the whole book?
I need to go to bed...
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Gautama Siddharta
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Gosh Forsaken, lots going on.
Had something to say, but it suddenly got very busy. PP and PR, you guys are great. We share differing beliefs that are so similar.
Peace to y'all and have a great day you wonderful Forsaken Pagan Browncoats!
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See now PR I am christian, but my husband is an athiest and we've never had a problem. I believe what I want and he believes what he wants and it's all good. I don't need my SO to be on my page, just acknowledge my page is there and leave it intact:)Plus I can accept that we both might be right or both wrong or whatever. I am irish so I do also think that pagans aren't exactly wrong. You can't go to Ireland and not see
However, if I were on a dating site and a guy in his approach said he was christian, I'd assume it was a big deal to him and be less interested and all so I can easily see why you wouldn't be comfy with that. Is your religion posted as well? 'Cause it's interesting that he contacted you if he knows you're pagan:)
I choose to rise instead of fall- U2
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In the famous words of our beloved Captain, "...huh!"
I have, for the most part, gotten along with everybody I have met of differing religious beliefs. It's nice to know we can do the same here, without preaching at each other or naysaying each others' beliefs. And we are the labeled "Forsaken". Odd, ain't it?
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Tristan- I think that's because most religions have some sort of us against them exclusionary feature and those of us who are very accepting kinda mess that up:)
Hey my nephew is in the newspaper... My sister in law takes him to a baby sign language class ( it helps toddlers because their vocab hasn't caught up with their brain by letting them communicate)and they did a feature in the paper:)
I choose to rise instead of fall- U2
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