Reply #133: Gee, I wonder...

[SomewhereOutThere424]

How long it will take them to realize how misunderstood they've made pagans feel for the past few decades or so? I read a news article saying that valentine's day should be banned because of pagan origins, yet no one says anything about st patrick's day, celebrating st patrick removing the 'snakes' (killing pagans) to emphasize the christian faith as a dominant and recursive faith on those who don't believe, or especially believe in paganism.

I think that christians as a whole should fight their image, like pagans as a whole have had to. I still wear a pentacle outside despite the fact I'm sometimes afraid it will make people think I worship satan (who was merely taken from the image of a pagan god made centuries before the christian faith to demonize pagans further, ironically a god of peace and tolerance. Go figure.)

"Remove the plank from your own eye before pointing out the splinter in another's". I think they should worry more about how they make other lifestyles and religions feel misunderstood, intentionally or non intentionally, before they want the world to see them without the hate they seem to see everyone else with (in majority. I know many christians try to spread love and to those, I commend your efforts.)

I come from a christian background, before I chose the pagan faith. Even before I had a reason to be hated, I was stared at like I was the spawn of satan. The good little boy wearing a tie and even a suit to church, dressed up, cut my hair despite the fact I liked it longer to look traditional and 'good'. Even when I was IN the christian faith; in the church, giving donations of ten dollars or more at times each WEEK, I was still treated like a sub form of life who was not as elite as those who have read the bible fourty times over.

I think the christian misunderstanding starts not with others' treatment of them, but their treatment of others within their own faith, or in other faiths. I pity the few good christians who struggled to do good in their faith's name and continue to do so, I wish you luck.