Poor Pagans

At least the advertisers and the creators of christianity were nice enough to set a date

http://www.smh.com.au/world/it-dawns-on-druids-theyre-a-day-early-for-solstice-20091223-ldfa.html

Oops posted this in the lounge be accident....

So, paganism is a growing "religion" in england do you think this is a reactionary trend to enviromental damage? Will more move towards nature worship or is it just a bunch of athiests getting an excuse to wear silly clothes and drink mead?

Edit: Higgs ninjaed while i was editing the most dyslexic sentence i have ever typed >>

 

Can you please formulate some sort of an argument, question or proposition? I don't really see what is there to discuss about that article.

 

300 people ain't exactly a ''Religion on the rise''.

And I doubt atheists would become pagans. It's like someone saying: ''I don't want to be red anymore, I want to be a-color-ist'' And then he becomes yellow

 

300 was just a small sample census found about 50000 people who said they were pagans and a read some articles...can't find them now... where they interviewed alot of sects which found alot of athiests just join for the fun of it.

Which in my opinion is the best reason to join a religion

 

IMO, one joins a religion for the hope in faith. It provides a general outlet for dealing with the day to day issues of life, as well as puts some perspective on life. It's all about the positive effects of faith. It saddens me that the atheist community has taken it upon themselves to taint the faith of any religion as a joke; specifically a small, misunderstood one such as paganism. For the record, I am atheist. Anybody who calls themselves "atheist" but can't treat theists as equals deserves the respect of neither.

 

You are creating artificial problem EatMeReturns.

 

They're mocking a religion! Artificial my ***.

 

How can the mocking of anything be a problem?

 

It's disrespectful, if you're interrupting and/or partaking in the thing itself! I'm all for making fun of bible-thumping christians and imitating the death-cries of terrorist muslims, but not at the pope's christmas speech within the Vatican, which is a christian equivalent of this pagan festival. Christianity is a proud foundation, and islam is no less. Don't mix mockery with actuality.

I probably should have explained this better in my last post, my apologies.

 

Well again, I don't actually mock anyoone or anything in this thread (so far) but I smell another case of special treatment for religion. If someone talks about magical pixies and invisible sky dadies he opens himself to the obvious criticism that non of them are (probably) real. I don't care how many people believe it.
But I don't mock Popes Christmas speech. I am not aware of anyone who does. I am aware of people mocking and criticizing his other speeches when he starts demoting the use of condoms and **** like that. I should know because I am one of them.

 

I'm ok with mocking any of his speeches, just not at the speech itself.

 

Expand on that. What do you mean?

 

It's ok so long as you aren't interrupting.

 

But nobody is interrupting anyone in here. Or the article. I don't understand why are you making these points now.

 

We were talking about atheists joining just for the fun of it. I call that interrupting, even though they probably play along. It ruins the spiritual-ness of it.

 

Well they are free to join a religion for whatever reason they want. Besides, they did not actually join the religion, they made a statement. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

 

You are free to join the religion for any reason you want, but some reasons are still disrespectful.

 

But they didn't actually joined the religion they just pretended to take part of it.

 

Now you're just twisting words. You go to the thing without the intention of piety and for the sole reason that it's eccentric activities are fun to you, you're disrespectful. Other people are there because they believe in it and they care.

 

I don't go on any thing. I am sitting in my home the entire time. How am I being disrespectful?
On topic: If they were to dress up as smurfs would you sitll be outraged?