Welcome to Gaia! ::

I chose my path because I was already deeply interested in ancient cultures (and thinking that many of them made a hell of a lot more sense than ours does, and wishing we could just go back...), and was trying to find a way to bring them into my life. For a long time, my aspiration was to become an archaeologist. Then I realized I simply didn't have the patience for it.

In grade eight, I discovered Wicca for the first time. I decided to look into it, just out of curiosity. The more I learned, the more it all made so much sense, and felt... right. Since most of my previous studies had been into the Greek mythology, I found myself relating the two together most often. Thus, I became a Hellenic Wiccan, though certainly not strictly so.

And by the way, it's just Pagan. Paganist isn't a word.

my first religion was basically forced on me, my parents were catholic, and so they wanted me to be catholic, and so I was.
My second and third religions (both satanism, luciferian and athiestic) were for angsty reasons.
my third was because I didn't so much like satanism so i shopped around for a while to find one that i agreed with.
currently, becaue I felt that I needed a new philosophy, and so I combined a lot of things that I learned from what I used to be, and from other religions that I knew about.

I was born and raised a Southern Baptist Christian (Right in the middle of the Bible Belt), and during my early teenage years I became somewhat agnostic for a couple of years, and then in my late teenage years I began heavy personal research into Early Christianity (Gnostic and Orthodox) and ancient Jewish/Christian Mysticism, and after having many personal spiritual experiances and ascension of spiritual consiousness to God from delving into Christian Gnosticism and spiritually "awakening", and having personal mysticism ascension experiances (gnosis) over the years, I've become what I am now, a Barbeloic Valentinian Gnostic Christian and a student of Jewish Kabbalah, and also a heavy researcher into Jewish/Christian Mysticism and Zoroastrianism and Hinduism and Taoism and Buddhism and Hermeticism and even Neo-Paganism. For me, I Spiritually "Awakened" and found God through many Personal Spiritual Experiances and Ascension of Spiritual Consiousness to God, a "Spiritual Rapture" / "Spiritual Rebirth/Resurrection" if you will, God was always there, I just needed to "Awaken" to God and His/Her prescence. Resting/Reigning with God in the "Silence" of the Fullness, the True State of "No Mind". That's my story.

I'm afraid I'm generic Pagan. If any ancient religion ((In entirety)) were to mark me, I'm a Greek idealist. I noticed from ways I thought about things that I equate God and Goddess to Uranus and Gaea from Greek myth regularly.

ANyway, my beliefs at the moment are simple: I believe in God and Goddess as one working unit, the creators of the universe and the ultimate goal is to be like them. The first step to Deity, the God and Goddess as one (It's my personal term so people don't think I'm reffering to this God, or the God... just my own.), is service to others. You could say I'm Christian without claiming Christ as the divine. I prefer looking at the words Christ spoke himself, not the interpretations of him in later generations.

I am a Fallower of Christ. I do not claim any piticual sect of Christianity, as I beleave they are all corupted. I base my life choises on the teachings of christ.

1. Love your niebor as your self.
2. Love God with all your heart.

Plain and simple. I still read the bible but I prefer to have a more personal relationship with God than most christians.

i was raised a Catholic by my family, slid into atheism when i was about 12, found Wicca when i was about 14 and studied that for a while. it seemed to fit for a while untill i learned more. my beliefs outgrew that of Wicca so now i'm an eclectic Witch following my own path biggrin if it works for me, i use it, simple.

i cant say to much for you chirstians but i for one, have a goo dplace in my heart for the thanks my peopel of the pagans, gave to Odin when he allowed them to whoop the chirstains a**'s in 448AC. If teh christains had only listend to us and just said "ok we accept your god as yours", and hadnt gone around saying that "god" is the only true one of power... they wouldnt have gotton killed. and teh pagans would still be in germany and not too many of us now aday "goths" would be here. so in a way as much as the pagan desendants, (such as myself) who have found tehir roots in paganism, kinda have to thank the dumb christian population. because other wise, we wouldnt be here.