Re: The benefits of Paganism are?

I've never really bothered to try to spell out the "benefits" of my paganism, but it was an interesting question, so I give it a shot. ...Although I do spend about the first half of the video saying why I think it's a strange question.

This is a response to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ysx41HoRBI

UPDATE: I seem to be unable to comment on his video or post a response vid. I'm not sure if that means he's blocking me, or what. But, anyways, the vid I am responding to is right above.

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[shockawenow]

I have a question and a sincere one. All joking aside, how do pagans rationalize the bible where Jesus said and I quote "Do not be like the pagans" and there are numerous passages where He discouraged Paganism. It seems to me that if I read that I would ask "Why" would Christ discourage paganism?

[fiacharrey]

Thank you for the excellent question. I know you've asked it before elsewhere, but now I think I understand what you are asking. Could you cite a specific passage for me? I will read it and then be happy to respond further.

[fiacharrey]

I went ahead and posted a reply in video form. It's linked to this video in the video reply section.

[epidome]

One of the greatest benefits of Christianity is it takes away the fear of death.

[fiacharrey]

No more or less than most any other religion. Celtic warriors in ancient times had little fear of death, because they believed that the soul is immortal and they would be reborn. The Muslims who do suicide bombings have no fear of death thanks to their religion. The Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire during the Vietnam war didn't fear death thanks to their religion.

[xDARTHZARx]

@shockawenow Why would an all loveing God put some one else down? Jesus was pure love no? Perhaps that was put in there by some one other then the word of God. think about that friend.

[Fosterpython]

That's exactly what separates us from christians. We don't give a fuck if people believe in the same as us or not, we don't even care if people like us. Heck, we can't even be sure we're right. Like Wanda Sykes says, it's that simple, we don't give a fuck!

[RivaWitch]

You do know Pagans don't hold the bible as truth. This is the problem with many Christians they see EVERYTHING with christian threads. The would does not work that way.

[shockawenow]

Hey man giving you the update on the contest. In order of benefits listed here's how the contest ended up. #1 Christians #2 Paganism #3 Atheism #4 Wiccans (They were too busy jumping flames or talking to boxes I don't know). The Christian community totally dominated the contest. If you go to my main page by clicking on my name then go to my page 2 and you can see the contest results chosen by the Youtube Community and totally unbias.

[whateley23]

by the way, when i used "anima" as the word translated as "soul", that's because it's the one Caesar used in De Bello Gallica. the native Irish term would be "anam".

[whateley23]

so do the Celtic primal conceptions. as Caesar recorded (echoing Poseidonius), the druids taught that the soul ("anima") was immortal. we don't believe that there is a need for a salvator to get that.

[whateley23]

which, by the way, shouldn't imply that we believe that the natural world is inherently predatory, but instead that it doesn't exist purely for our interests.