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That question is even harder to answer than what Christians believe. Many pagans worship nature, but there are nature-worshippers who don’t call themselves pagans, like the naturalistic pantheists. Many pagans believe in a multitude of Gods and Goddesses, polytheism, but there are some...

Paganism can subsist upon a feeling of inherent holiness in everything in the natural universe. There are those who call themselves atheist pagans whose paganism consists in reverence of nature and celebration of its cycles. They don’t believe the Gods are real—they view Them as archetypes...

If there is any impression I have gained about Sikhism, it is that Sikhism is a merger of the Islamic idea of monotheism with the Hindu idea of escape from the Wheel of Reincarnation through bhakti (devotion). Guru Nanak conversed with both Muslim and Hindu theologians. Of course, this is an...

Thank you, Saihajleen Kaur. :)

Thank you Ideal Singh. :)

One could not worship so many Gods and Goddesses at once. That is where the concept of ishta-devata, or chosen divinity, comes in. A person can choose to worship one God or two or three, maybe a little more, but certainly not all of Them. A worshipper of Shiva does not disbelieve in the...

It is not a need of God, but a need of humans. The Creator-God, or Brahman, is too abstract, too conceptually remote for human beings to relate to. Humans can only to relate to His personal aspects, such as the Destroyer (Shiva), Preserver (Vishnu), Nurturing Mother (Lakshmi), Dark Mother (Kali)...

Thank you sukhi. :)

Thank you. :) You’ll find me making most of my posts on the Hinduism forum. I’ve already posted something there. I was raised an atheist, became an Orthodox Jewish monotheist in 1997, left and became a Deist in 1999, returned to atheism a little later, then underwent a period of...

Take a look at this article: Monotheism and Polytheism by Alain Danielou It explains soft polytheism (which I adhere to also) most succintly. Truly there is a Oneness behind all Being, a simple unity beyond which nothing simpler could be conceived; however, the Brahman is so abstract, so...

Hello Sikhs! I found this board through sikhphilosophy’s homepage link on Internet Infidels Discussion Board. I’m a non-Abrahamic theist, a neopagan. I’m an Eclectic Wiccan. I practice the rituals and spells of Wicca (neopagan witchcraft), my theology is heavily influenced by Hinduism (soft...