The pagan holy book

From what I understand, writing in the BC period around the Europe region, was more for ritual purposes. Knowledge was past down by word of mouth. It was during the spread of Christian that monks decided to write down these stories, in fear that they will one day be lost forever. Even though they did put their spin doctors to work on most of the text, we do have them to thank for having much of what we have today. Their old habits did help us in that sense, so let's not be so hard on them shall we? ;)

Hey hey lecanis! Good to see that you're still active around here :D Sorry I haven't been around, life caught up and (insert list of excuses here). I actually got the inspiration while I was listening to a pagan podcast. It was one on the fact that others denounce our believes because we don't have some form of sacred writing. They say that a religion must have sacred writings. And they are right, paganism isn't a religion, it's a way of life. The universe must have figured that we're too thick to understand what we read. That's why she created a whole set of visual and audio aids called Life. (insert Uncle Sam poster here) Have YOU started living yet? (oops, does that count as evangelizing? Bad pagan, bad!)

Yup, I'm still around! More active some times than others, but the last few days I've actually been starting a lot more discussions than usual. Umm... though some of them are fueled by my dirty mind. =P Pagan podcasts? That's something I should check out! I've never listened to any pagan podcasts!! I'm not sure I agree on the "not having sacred writings" things. I guess it depends on what form of paganism you follow, but I'd consider things like the Norse Eddas and the Welsh Mabinogion and the Irish mythological cycles and such as "sacred writings". I'm sure some of the other older religions have some too, but I'm sticking with the things I'm familiar with to talk about. Haha, I like the "life" thing. That's a very good way of saying it! Don't start on the "bad pagan, bad!" thing. Reference previous line about my current discussions. *laughs*

There are many writings sacred to pagan belief systems, and some which have few or none. I found mnay of these to be quite inspiring and to teach important truths. It is a shame that most of these are not more widely known and/or available. I am always eager to read nore texts of religious belief. I trust my soul to recognize the truths they contain and to learn from those truths. I find that many people discount as nonexistant writings because THEY themselves have not heard of them.

You're basing your answer on the Bible, when we were specifically talking about paganism. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you want to take part in the discussion, that's great, but it doesn't make any sense to say "Your religion isn't holy because my religion says it's not." Anyone can say that. We could say that to you, but usually pagans don't bash other people's beliefs like that.

That's a great quote lancingboy :D thank you!

Getting a story wrong or passing down false information was a capital offense (at less for the bards) back in those days wasn't it? Now if only that works for the media nowadays...