i'll try to recreate the rant i did that disappeared on me last night.
i have a friend that wants me to become a christain. she has pretty much left me alone on that matter for a while but now she has come back into it. like getting inspired to read me a bible passage. and i'll listen because one thats what friends do. also i'm interested in other people's beliefs and jesus is cool with me.
she thinks my interest means that jesus is calling me. i haven't heard anything. i think he's like respecting my personal space. see i don't feel the dude like she does. i don't have any feelings that specifically make me feel that jesus is even here.
i have felt bridget. i have felt the horned god. i feel them in the room. i honer them.
but my friend says one isn't real and the other is the devil. well pan has his moments but the ultimate evil? a tad rough don't you think?
personally i like jesus. he's awsome. he goes around saving people, healing them, giving to the poor. bridget would totatly aprove of him. they'd make great friends. she believes in helping the poor too. heck she gave her dad's valuable sword to a begger once. her dad tried to sell her to a king. the king, fearing he'd loose his assets but impressed with her honesty, set her free.
bridet was such a loved goddess they made her a saint since they couldn't demonize her. so i love all her aspects, the saint, the mortal, the godess...everything.
the problem is jesus's dad. he's all "thou shalt not have any gods before me!" and "you can't serve two masters!" so if i became a christain like my friend wants then i have to say goodbye to bridget who has brought me much joy. or i can become catholic because she's also a saint, but i would have to learn latin on top of hebrew to read the really old stuff. i'm already trying to learn gailic and klingon. i grew up jewish i can tell you i don't have the brain power to learn hebrew. i'm one of those people that just can't take another mortals say-so. i have to read and understand things.
so anyway i'm not gonna ditch bridget and all the other gods. thats wouldn't be fair to them. its like your a kid in school and you have friends that aren't that popular and the cool kids want you but only you and you have to decide; do you want your friends or do you want to be a cool kid?
so a christain would be like "you are choosing the devil because you feel sorry for him? thats stupid!"
but they are not the devil, thats my point. my beliefs are as follows.
the universe created us. whether the universe has always been there or was the off spring of some other universe is irrelevant right now. the universe is alive and has a spirit. it created all the planets and such and they have spirits. everything has a spirit. and when i say everything i mean everything.
our planet for example. the earth has a spirit and she has all her children living on her including us. the mountains, the rivers, the plants, the animals etc. the gods are her children and so are we. they might be the spiritual manifestations of the land or entities upon themselves. really they could. on one hand you got zeus, freya, inarai and a bunch of other people/animal gods. on the other hand you got river gods, mountain gods and what have you.
people interpret things the best they can. they all have different creation myths. so naturally they all conflict with each other. so of course there are wars over which god is the right god. they are all the right god. whatever belife system you feel is right is the right choice. its the universe that judges us.
i honestly believe the universe gives us what we want so when we die we see the god of our religion and we get graded on how well we followed their tenets. if you believe in hell and you didn't do so hot i suppose thats what the universe will grant you. if you don't believe in anything you probably get reincarnated or put in some kind of sleep to be awakened at some point. i have trouble believeing that they would just disappear. the earth recycles and renews its self, why wouldn't the universe?
bottom line, the earth is our mother, the universe is our grand mother, the gods are kind of like our foster parents. they guide us and teach us and sometimes give us a boot if we need one.
my friend wouldn't understand this and with respect to her beliefs i would refrain from telling her this. heck i don't even know if i'm right, what if she is right?
well my answer is this. i refuse to serve any god that would cast the unrepentant and unbaptized in to hell. i will not convert as a formal protest to this unfair practice. my demands are simple. amnesty for the innocent and unbelieving souls cast down there. rescue for the souls dragged down to hell by the demons he sent to earth that possessed them. amnesty or at least probation for all the bad people burning in hell because even if they do repent after being punished what would be the point? they'd still be there forever and lastly some kind of rehab for demons so they may stop attacking people and animals. they have all this hatred it needs to be resolved.
anyway thats my take on this thing. if you read all this and still feel the need to convert me...um well thanks for your interest but i have my own faith.
Jaithien Community Member 
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