Pagan - Re: Pale Blue Tint's question

Well, so I'm a mutt pagan, maybe. Pagan is a much wider term than Christian or Prostestant, some are polytheist, some are pantheist, basically just about any 'theist you can think of. "Pagan" is about as descriptive as "American" or "European"; what part of the Americas? North, South, Central - Canada, Peru, Panama - US, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, New York...? IOW, it's a very broad term.

Personally, (and you certainly cannot classify other pagans by me!) I'm just comfortable with 'pagan' as a short answer if asked directly. The slightly longer answer is I hold no one 'religions' belief. I've independently studied some little of a lot of the fields of spirituality and sacrednees: theology, psychology, theosophy, philosophy, religion, quantum theory - Christianity (name a flavor!) Shinto, Transcendentalism, Wicca, Witchcraft (they are different) Druidism, Buddism, Shamanism, Pantheism, and on and on - even techno-magic. Atheism and Satanism didn't appeal to me as they each came across to me as being grounded in self - let's just I couldn't "dig their vibes." ;)

I've learned and borrowed or embraced a little from all of them. I notice patterns and see "God" where all the edges blend. It's comforting and amazing to see the similarities woven between the words. I agree with the previous posts from Tracey and Lapis and Rudenski that labels are probably not a good thing. We're conditioned from early on to label everything but some things just won't fit in neat little boxes no matter how hard we try or how much we may want them to. Maybe corporeal language is just simply inadequate to describe ethereal sacredness and that's where most of our problems lay. We tend to get so entangled in and attached to the different words each system uses that we fail to see that they are all describing the same thing. Tweet