It is possible that our ancestors in 30,000 BCE, practiced a sort of runic or sympathetic magic. Drawings on cave walls and ritual reinactment of the hunt may have been used to assure success in the hunt. The same sort of sympathetic magic was practiced by natives who did dances to cause rain or success in battle. In short, sympathetic magic or the belief that certain things done will cause other things to be done is prehistoric.
Jesus represents monotheism, and is just one of a long line of self-styled prophets telling others what to do. Monotheism is the antithesis of Paganism, the de-sacralising of nature and life.
Jesus was not the first to come up with that idea and like all monotheistic religions, it comes with a whole load of authoritarian baggage.
Paganism is all about experiencing the divine, and not about being told what to believe.
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you are right about that…cant we have both nature and jesus
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Jesus represents monotheism, and is just one of a long line of self-styled prophets telling others what to do. Monotheism is the antithesis of Paganism, the de-sacralising of nature and life.
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but maia -----lets forget jesus…what about the golden rule…