Pagan Religion's

there's a lot of different paths out there. you could look into Druidry, Asatru, Pantheism, Celtic reconstructionism, Hellenic reconstructionism, and that's just scraping the surface. Paganism is an umbrella term to cover a wide range of different spiritual paths that can vary a great deal. what they have in common is having some basis in either nature worship or ancestor worship. not all Pagans are religious, some having no belief in any Gods at all. others may be Polytheists, believing in a wide pantheon of many Gods. most believe in Spirits of some kind, and for many, that manifests in regular honour to our ancestral spirits, both those that we remember, and those too far back to be known to us. personally I am both a Polytheist, in that I believe in more than one deity, although not so many as some do, being only two. and a Polytheist. I believe that these Gods manifest in the driving and living energy that is a part of all things, connecting all life in the Universe. they are the faces of the Polar life force of the Universe. I don't have a name for my particular version of Paganism, so tend to refer to myself as Pagan. without further affiliating myself with any specific path. for me it is a personal journey, so rather than finding a set of beliefs and fitting what I believe to that, I believe what I believe, and don't try to put it in a box. I'm also very influenced by New Orleans style Voodoo, and honour my Ancestors and the Lwa, especially Papa Legba, who I have developed a close link to. it is good to read a lot of mythology, such as Norse, Greek and Celtic mythology, as the stories have a lot of deeper meaning to them. there is also a lot of folklore and even fairytales which have some deeper subconscious meaning to them too. if there are particular Gods or traditions that interest you. read about them, and maybe join internet forums where people discuss that path to find out more. if you are interested in Wicca, read about it's founder Gerald Gardner. or Alex Sanders if Alexandrian Wicca is more your thing. the Farrars are also good reading about a more accessable form of Alexandrian Wicca. but a lot of people throw the term Wicca around without realising it's a very specific initiatory tradition. without that coven background training, you can't really be Wiccan. you can be a Pagan influenced by Wicca, and that's fine too. as someone from a Catholic background, many of the saints were based on pre-existing worship of Deities that were absorbed into Catholic practice. so if there are any saints you were drawn to before, you may find their original deity stories and find a path for you.

There are SO many... Wicca - at least modern Wicca - is more of an extension of the Golden Dawn and a few other neo-pagan groups than the real Craft (i.e. witchcraft, as handed down from family to family through time). It's a very personal religion with as many flavours as there are people who believe in it, from effectively being a religionised ecological point of view (Gaian, in other words) to the real deal. Most of the old "pagan" religions also still exist, such as the worship of Isis and other Egyptian or Roman gods. They're mostly resurrected for fun, with very small followings. There's a lot of Kabbalism about, shamanism's pretty popular, the old Native American religions are still pretty strong, I think the Emin are still running, the crossovers like the Illuminati are always around and so on. You could even consider things like Hare Krishna spirituality to be pagan if you want. All you have to do is walk into a library and head to the religion section: you'll find piles and piles of books on everything from magic to the Koran.

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There's plenty of Pagans of different stripes here. Do you have any questions beyond what other Pagan religions exist?

Thanks be to God that you have in your heart the desire to know the truth and at this early have doubted the authenticity of the catholic religion. Catholicism while it claims to have Christian characters is innately pagan having emanated from Rome that had pagan practices. I suggest you look into the Church of God International for one. Here is the link for your reference: http://www.angdatingdaan.org/en/. Its Executive Minister Bro. Eliseo Soriano is a worldwide tele-evangelist who maximizes every minute of his time and life just to propagate Biblical truths. He conducts Bible Expositions worldwide to enable people from every race, faith, economic status, gender and age to appreciate and understand the Scriptures and clear heresies and lies propagated by false religions of our time.

I was raised in a primarily christian home in which after picking apart the bible I found a lot of problems, other symbolism, and so on. After reading some more passages when the preacher would stop there, I realized the only thing 'christian' about MOST not all churches was the fact they called themselves christian and it was no different than people who identify as any other religion. Paganism is a term to cover anything that is not the 'normal' religion at the time. It was used to classify many groups of people for not having the same beliefs as the majority. As for me, I worship one goddess overall and yet I believe in other deities. My form of religion dabbles in a few things all from older times and none of the new things today that people want to make money off of. Old style wicca, witchcraft, druidism, voodoo, and a few others like hinduism, ancient egyptian worship and so on. Most of what I do and used to do with friends involved nature, the elements, spiritual goings, invoking and contacting spirits, speaking with spirits, and bringing out natural abilities and more. That fits for us however and encompasses a lot of 'pagan' religions that I can't name at the moment since I can seem to think of them. Currently for this month our practices consist of more elemental control within ourselves and around our bodies.