Last week's Pagan Blog Prompt was:
Do you have any experience with Christian Pagan(ism)s? Or perhaps you yourself fall into this category? Please, enlighten us with your thoughts on this seemingly oxymoron combination.
It so happens that I have had experience with individuals that called themselves 'Judeo-Pagan', which I really consider a bit of a made-up word that means 'I want to be cool but can't abandon my upbringing because my family might disown me'. Perhaps it's not so for all individuals that attempt to blend Christianity and Paganism, but I think in general, calling oneself a Christian Pagan is a lot like saying you're a violent pacifist.
After all, if you are a follower of the Christian faith .. a 'true' follower .. then you have to adhere to the dogma of that faith, which insists that there is one single deity, that he created the earth barely over two-thousand years ago, that there are simply no other valid truths no matter what. For me, that flies in the face of what we as pagans believe, that ultimately the reality of the Divine is how the individual perceives it, that there is no one exact truth.
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