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I grew up Christian, but I have since chosen to accept Pagan beliefs and worship the goddess as well. There has been quite a debate among my peers and friends that says that I can not be both. What do you think?

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Thanks Penny I aprpreciate your input!
if you think you can then you are
I think no..
It'll be like being a human and a monkey at the same time.. :) (just kidding..)
Paganism is much more ancient and basic.. It's based on polytheism.
Christian has only one god, but, yet, both are based on animism. Both accept the statement that there is force that animates the universe..
I would advise you if you believe in more than one god, you are already not a Christian.. You've become a Pagan..
not all see it this way some see one god then helpers thats he has

Hi Nicholas,

   The roots of Wicca are in Gerald Gardner's tradition which comes from the teaching of the Golden Dawn. Gerald was a 5th degree upon the sixth square and had every right to form his own temple as an Adeptus Minor. You must renew your knowledge as animism is giving animal personna to people/Godforms and Godforms to animals. This was an Egyptian tradition. In Wicca, the AKASHIC spirit animates creation, it is a hermaphroditic spirit with no division (that is your Spirit candle). The male and female images are a knowable form that we can understand in the balance of male & female that create life and the continuing circle of life/universe. Just because a religion chooses a certain path as truth does not make it wrong, it means you must look more deeply into its origin and allow the snobs to have their way. Dion Fortune, one of the occult greats who helped defeat Hitler (and the group was given a mansion on the coast by Churchill for the purpose of defeating Hitler). Dion was wanting a guiding spirit of a great eastern master, but was given the Christ spirit. She was angry until she learned greater truths and surpassed her male counterparts. Her occult practices and spellwork never ended, she died comfortably in a grand home, and never gave up her beliefs once even when attending (oh no!!) Church.

I agree with you Mark

It depend on what kind of tradition you have choosed. If you're some pagan can choose what ever god they want to believe in. So long you understand the fundamental rules of magick is it all up to you what kind of god you want to believe in or you wanna blend with.
Floyda you are basicly balancing the forces in your life now, adding the goddess (female) to God (male) balances your life from a male dominated one to a more feminine one. Of course you probably already figured that out, but I like to say that anyway, because it's how some things work.

BB LK
No, because christianity is by definition non pagan. Christianity barrowed pagan concepts, which is where the idea of it having pagan roots comes from. But part of paganism is the belief that all religions are equivalent to one another and pagan religions (with the exeption of Buddhism) do not believe in missionaries. Zorastrianism, Christianity, and Islam are not pagan because they believe that only members of their communities can have devine experiences, and feel that all people need to believe as they do (which is why they have missionaries), Buddhists have missionaries but their goal is to advance the deeper levels of religious experience that already exist in a community, not to overthrow as in christianity.
So, my conclusion here is that christianity views itself as the only true way, an idea that doesn't exist in paganism, And christians generally have a completely different way of going about religion than pagans. Also christianity teaches that it is heresy to believe in any deity but the one male god who is represented in the trinity of father, son, and holy ghost, so worshipping the goddess in christianity is accepted.
well to my knowledge people who claim christian and pagan ways call them selves eclectic. my last group wass all pagan but we were tought both
well the christian copy most of pagen fath ways and coustems as well christian magic is praying pagens have thare way hehe do santeria like me and for the most part you can have both worlds orishas and saints get book by migene gonealez wippler will give a better understanding on the fath so yes you can keep the the christian ways and pagen ways as well ok if you have a questen i can give a replay
yes they can cause iam a pagan christian iam sateria vodoo before i became a pagan christian cause in sateria vodoo we doo good magic to fight dark vodoo in phillipines and we believe in saints and angels and Jesus Christ and we do alot of magic in that field in the phillipine smany are sateria or pagn christian

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