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Originally Posted by tecoyah
This is why I am Pagan:
I never have to tell someone they are wrong, (though I might think they are, I am not forced to feel this way) there is a difference.
I dont have to read a book for guidance, but instead can read them all if I so choose and take the parts that make sense as my own.
I can admit I have no Idea who God is, and be perfectly content in my ignorance.
I can still dwell in a congregation of like minded people, for support, experience, and love.
I dont have to Judge everyone else based on what I consider fabricated guidelines, but instead can focus on just being as nice as I can.
I dont have to feel guilty that people are dying because my God says they should (whether true or not, I refer to how I feel)
Sex is a part of the faith....heh (had to throw that in there)
I guess I am posting this just to hear myself talk, and to express my dissatisfaction that people are killing each other in the name of a God, I see this as the worst form of Hypocracy imaginable.So...onto my question:
Does it make any sense at all....to support a God who tells you to Kill someone?
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These are some of the reasons I consider myself a Pagan as well. Some of them I think I realized in talking to you. I find it to be a much more open-minded, relaxed community and frame of existence... and one that fits me very well.
However, I've never viewed either the Christian or Muslim version of God as telling people to kill one another. Rather, I've always seen it as a matter of people using their god as an excuse for their desire to kill another. It doesn't make sense to me to support a god who tells one person to kill another. Even if you take out a moral perspective, it would not make sense for a god to create only to destroy.