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Even though a lot of Christians had been close-minded and wrong to Pagans, I feel that we should still respect the religion, as we want other people to accept and respect ours.

Its not the religion that is corrupt, take a second and look @ it with out the people, Christianity teaches you to be kind to others and treat them with respect, basically treat others they way you wish to be treated. I'm not trying to put you down or anything, but it seems like your judging something you haven't looked at closely. The problem isn't the religion itself, its the people who twist the words and meanings around to get what they want out of it. These "holy wars" were total B.S. no real reason for them, accept personal gain (human gain of cores) what would God want with land, money, gold, women? Nothing, lulz. The killing was done by Man, who either belied not knowing any better, due to lack of education, that what they were doing was right, or corrupt leaders using Christianity as a means to start a war. The people are the ones corrupt, not the religion.

Ah but the thing is, when you examine the text of Christianity and cross it with ones that predate it, they are quite similar. The thing is I've looked deeply into the subject and into what they've done. I don't speak against anything if I haven't looked into it at least a bit. As I've looked more and more into it, I can't help but notice how closely the stories relate to those before it but the two religions having different beliefs in terms of rules and how they worshiped gods. What I find rather amusing in their religions intolerance to others, yet they say that you have free will and your life is yours to true but that seems to only be true if you follow them. All their acts against fellow humans where in the name of their god, decided by those high in power in the religion and who supposedly are in contact with their god. But yet, you look at their acts their all just for power and out of greed, that's what their god wants. This only makes me further believe this religion was created simply as a device to control as many people as they can.

When you look at it, that's what it was. When at the height of their power they basically controlled all of Europe. Decisions where made primarily after consulting a member of the Clergy. They seemed to incite war and violence more then try to prevent it. The funniest part I think is their ten commandments, they've broken them so many times in the name of their god. Yet their god made these rules and he can tell you to break them to kill his children but you can't out of free will and not face consequences? I don't mean to sound like some person who's trying to completely bash Christianity, I think it does teach some good morals we all should take a lesson from but how the religion is run just makes me greatly dislike it so much. But who am I to say anything because in truth how can we decide what's right, how can anyone? We rule our own lives and sometimes following what the majority says only leads to your own destruction. We can never say what's truly right, what's right to one may not be to another.

I know that and that's what I said, I don't mean to bash. I'm just saying my views on that religion, trust me, that's not bashing, I've seen far worse and have done worse and many wouldn't consider much of it bashing, well at least those that I've seen. But again, as i've said before I don't mean to bash.

I wouldn't consider that bashing, expressing a personal view is quite the opposite, and personally I welcome the opinion of others.

Mother use to be a baptist so I was drugged to church quite often up till I was old enough to speak out about not wanting to go.. which was about when I was 13 and I just didn't have any path that I followed then.. But once I hit 16 I started practicing Seax wicca with a group that invited my sister and I.. It was a pleasant experience for awhile but then a few years into it a few people in our group decided to become traditional wiccan..which lead to them being rather uppity about how things should be done and who should be allowed to participate... "Yes I know, that not all traditionalist are like that, but the few that I have encountered have really got to me." So that whole mess lead me to quit attending circles and sabats and go my own way.

OMG, that's what they did to my old elementary school in Chicago, now they have service every Sunday. But there's also an actual Evangelical church at the end of the block headed west and another one three blocks north of the school.
Whyyyy?! crying

Anyway, the only time I got actually dragged to church was when I was little and I went to spend a weekend at my Grandma's house because she wanted me to visit so badly. I never did that again. I noticed since she passed away a few years ago, relatives are starting to slack off going to church on Sundays.
Then after that, the only time I went to church was for funerals, and that was rare and not very amazing except I got to see dead people (I'm fascinated with dead things, don't ask, but I promise I didnt poke xd ).
Then later on I went to a Catholic Easter mass this year, and I gotta admit, I enjoyed it, it was a fun experience and the people there were really welcoming, and I didn't wanna beat people in the head with rolled up newspapers. I had met some of the priests before, and one of them figured out that I wasn't Christian at all, but he certainly did have plenty of simple friendly questions that I had no problems answering. xd
Yeah, I pretty much had a conversation with a Catholic priest and liked it a lot.