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…
I still cannot see how a type of coping done in the infancy of the human race can be valid now in our adolescence. (The race has not yet approached maturity.) Shouldn’t we move on and put away childish things?
Resurrection of Jesus has nothing to do with runic (sympathetic) magic. It has to do with aspiring that what we see in the flesh is not the whole picture of reality. Jesus has more to do with hope than with magic. The resurrection could also be of your own renewal. For me the resurrection is proved in jonquils that pop through soil that appeared dead in winter.