The Greenygrey of Religion and Paganism
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Although this website generally promotes an agnostic pantheist pagan ideology, it respects people’s rights to worship what they want as long as they don’t try and force it on others or use it to harm other life.
If people want to believe in monotheistic religions, and heaven and hells, then that is up to them. I wish I could in many ways.
Paganism and Christianity in the UK
On the question of religion in UK history, I think Christianity was good in some ways, such as getting rid of the use of sacrifice; but it also did a lot of bad, such as the witch-burnings.
Christianity is mostly benign now, giving comfort and tradition to believers, but can still be used for bad; such as when those in respectable positions abuse the trust put in them, and destroy the lives of those they are supposed to be leading.
Religion in the UK and on Television Today
I think New Age Paganism offers more in this day and age: where we are at in terms of astronomy; science; human and animal rights; and the environment. But I wouldn’t want to force that opinion on anybody. People can stop reading the blog, or just disagree if they wish.
There was a debate about whether paganism is more relevant than Christianity on the BBC’s Big Questions programme last Sunday, and it’s viewable on BBC iplayer until 10.59 next Sunday (February 7th).
Channel Four also has a series about the history of the bible on at the moment, for those who wish to become more informed about the Middle-East and why the holy land is still at war thousands of years after the monotheistic religions that dominate our world started.
The last episode was about Abraham, the father of all three great (?) monotheistic religions, and the arguments that still divide the world all started with him too!