Reply to Dhimmi no more

Submitted by Seamus MacNemi (United States), May 11, 2007 at 22:42

Hey look Jack! I don't know who or what you are and what's more I don't care. Your life is your concern, not mine. If you are a Meccan Pagan and that gets you off, that's OK by me. I know a lot of Pagans, Druids, Wiccans and others who don't call themselves anything. I'm not interested in saving any souls from the Christian hell. As far as I am concerned that whole story is a lot of BS. The only one who can make your life anything is you. If you have a good connection with the HIGH ONE so much the better. It's not how you make the connection that's important. It's the fact that you have one.And if you do, that's good, FOR YOU.

Pagan means country dweller as opposed to the civilian who lives in the civilus or city. Strictly speaking, I am also a Pagan because I live in the remote mountains, far from the centers of population. The Pagans I know are a peaceful folk, not out to kill or convert anyone. That's why I don't have any difficulty having them in my home as guests on occasion. Together we all love and respect the livingness of our world and we all recognise the unity and harmony of the natrural world surrounding. I love G-d because I love life and livingness. For me and my folk, G-d is in all things that exist, even the stones beneath my feet. Aftrer all, it is HE who created this world and HE who sustains it. If HE was not in it, HE could not sustain it. G-d IS the livingness of our world. I don't care what Christians think.

The only place in our world that evil can exist is in the minds of men, and it is through the actions of men that evil expresses itself in this world. Man is the only creature capable of doing evil because he is not truly bound by the laws of nature as are the beasts. Men can think and make rational desisions. The beasts cannot. Man has free will, the beasts do not. That is why Man was given the LAW by G-d.

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