Do you (Wiccans and Other Pagans) Believe in Jesus?
Short Answer: Some do. Long Answer: Wiccans and Pagans believe many different things about Jesus. Since he's not a part of their faith,(except for a very few syncretic pagans) what they think about him is largely personal. The Pagan religions usually don't even mention him in their sacred teachings. -Some Pagans see Jesus as a fictional character of another culture's literary tradition, much as Christians consider Ajax, Achilles and Agamemmnon as fictional characters. Of those who consider him fiction, some consider him inspiring, and others don't care one way or another.
-Some Pagans see Jesus as an avatar (a god in human form) or a prophet of, the Abrahamic God. Many of them believe, based on unbiased readings of the bible, that he came to make changes in the way his people worshipped their god, and that those who think he came to change all peoples are reading the bible wrong.
-Some Pagans see Jesus as a great teacher. Many think his words are often taken out of context.
-A few, syncretic, Pagans, view him as a saviour. Other Pagans don't believe in saving at all.
-Some Pagans don't care either way, and feel Jesus has no relevance to their faith. Many of these, myself included, feel that the Jesus story, regardless of its veracity, is more interesting for its effect on middle eastern culture and late western culture, than for its actual content.
-A very few Pagans, perhaps less than .5%, see Jesus as an evil force in the universe, and cite the many killed for Christianity for this belief.
-Many Pagans see Jesus as just another wise man, and correctly point out that he said nothing not said before by other cultures, especially the Greek philosophers he, as an educated person, probably had read.
-Still other Pagans see Jesus as a Pagan, with his powers of healing and other magick nothing more than a level of power. Many of these Pagans believe his words and his deeds are two different stories, the deeds truthful, and the words those of the people who created a new religion in his honour.
-Few Pagans believe Jesus died for them. Many see this as nonsense and state that if the followers of a modern death row victim insisted their leader died for you we'd all think them nuts.
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"what is syncreticism?"
Syncretic religions, like Voudoun, combine indigenous beliefs with Christianity. There are Pagan syncretic faiths too, like "Arthurian Christianity,"
"Jewitchery" and Christopagans.
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