Question by Spread The Love: Do Pagans believe in all the gods and goddesses? Or just the one/s they worship?
I know there are many many differnt kinds of Pagans that worship differnt goddesses or gods. do they all believe in every god and goddess or only the ones they worship?
thank you.
Best answer:
Answer by Shaman Val
The only gods in Animism are Father Sun, Mother Earth, Grandmother Moon, and Grandfather Sky the creator. Creator as in the culmination of all cause and effect that led to our existence. Animism is at least 60’000 years old. 😉
Practicing Shaman… quantum physics rocks.
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it realyl depends on which pagna your asking
i dont believe in any gods /goddesses
the answer is no pagans dont, maybe some individual pagans do, but not all do
different pagans beleive in different things, this includes gods/goddesses
Speaking for myself, I believe in most of them, not all of them. There is one particularly notable exception (possibly two or three). That doesn’t mean he does not exist, just that I don’t believe he does exist with the characteristics attributed to him in certain writings. But it would certainly be untrue to say that Pagans in general share my view.
I am still undecided over whether I am a hard or a soft polytheist. I suppose the question just doesn’t matter that much to me. I call the Goddess by a dozen different names and I think of her as three in one. The thousands of other goddesses may just be different aspects of “my” Goddess (soft polytheism) or they may be distinctly different goddesses (hard polytheism). The same goes for my God.
Usually they respect those that are not of their path, but they do honor their deities.
Hard polytheists believe all the Gods and Goddesses exist.
But not all Pagans are hard polytheists.
Some are inclusive monotheists, believing every God or Goddess is just a human idea about the nature of the Divine, or one aspect of the Divine Source.
But Pagans are not like Muslims or Christians; we don’t think other people’s Gods don’t exist, we just don’t feel we’ve been called to worship them.
Greetings!
Pagans are just plain `ol Folk…………with the same ideas and problems that all people have. Pagans are able, and encouraged, to change their viewpoints now and then, without any penalty, so, sometimes yes, sometimes no.
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