Huffette wrote:Fahrenheit451 wrote:Falicea272 wrote:
Now I mention Abrahamic religions to distinguish them from other religions that have never gone to war on account of their believes or been part of the mass murder of thousand of people; for example the Yizidis, Hoodoun, Wicca, Hinduism, etc. have never been documented to have gone to war for their believes.
Like, I know right?!...For realz...Geez, I can't think of any example in the history of the entire world of someone who's a pagan or Wiccan or Witch or Hindu or Voodoo practictioner (Hoodoo isn't a religion) or Satanist or Atheist or Agnostic, EVER advocating or inciting or passively standing by while other people were attacked & tortured. Those religions & belief systems are completely more worthy to be learned from.
And I'm sure every person who is Christian or Jewish is just itching to start a holy war for the lulz of it and never question their own beliefs AT ALL EVER, and I'm sure they all just blindly agree with every word, ALL OF THEM AGREE WITH EVERY WORD... FACT of the DAY, yep yep, because the internet told me so.
Actually, I AM a christian, but I am not the typical christian. I don't agree with every word. Everything man touches gets changed to fit his own views. However, I am a follower of Christ, so that makes me a Christian.
Most of my teachings and wisdom, though, I get directly from the angels who guide me and keep me safe.
I have been attacked on numerous occasions by demons who seek to prevent the truth to be known. Some of these are high ranking demons, who seek only to destroy, and will not allow themselves to be bound by any mortal. They seek amusement in destroying what the great one, or divine has created.
These are the demons that do not mess around, and that seems to be what Terror saw that night. These are the demons that necessitate having angelic beings called for assistance, or you will be destroyed.
They are the demons that terrify me in the night, that seek to destroy me at all costs, and the ones that the arc angels protect me from.
Huffette... I think... while your trials are certainly no joking matter, and neither are Terror's... that Farenheit was being... sarcastic. I dunno, but that's how I read it... which may mean that this person actually is VERY Christian, perhaps even as yourself, and that a previous post which could be viewed as denegrating the... "true" spirit of Christianity (irregardless of what it has become within mainstream America and mainstream media with all the mega-church hype)... disturbed them. However, not being a Christian myself, I don't have a very real grip on that "truth," so take this thought with a grain of salt if you wish.
I have several experiences of my own to relate, but.... I don't think I'm ready to do that yet. However, rest assured... all of you who have discussed this from personal experience, while my own were not as... severe as some as yours... I know that coming to contact with the shadows behind our sunny reality is... no easy thing... and it leaves you changed... utterly. I will say that... faith of any kind can burn away the darkness. It does not seem to need an Abrahamic belief to chase it away, merely belief in the truth of Light and Love being more powerful - the belief that YOU are loved.
I will relate one small thing... Keep in mind, again, that I am not a Christian. One of the times I was attacked, it was night time, I was sleeping, and I woke when something landed on my back. I heard a voice, deep, gravelly, masculine, and dark, tell me, "He didn't die for you." Without thinking, my spirit reacted, and the thought "Of COURSE He did," shot through me... and I threw out my psychic wings, and tossed the entity off of me so strongly, it was chucked out the bedroom window. It never came back.
In that moment, I was not of any faith, not even my own. I only knew, from the soul outwards, that whoever "he" was, that thing spoke a lie. It didn't matter that I am not one of His children, but one of Hers. It didn't matter that the few times I've met Him, while it's always been amicable, I've never been interested. Whether you are Christian or not, whether Christ was a historical figure or a fictitious character from myth, whether he's some kind of saviour or god or merely a prophet or someone completely made up to raise a rebellion against Rome didn't matter one jot. He's real now. And part of that reality is, there are many ways up the mountain, He has sheep in many pastures, and He died for EVERYBODY.
I may not be one of His, and that's never going to change. I like Him ok, but His father sucks (and I truly mean no offense, here - it's personal history and I am not ready to discuss it) and most of His so-called followers scare the crap out of me - I rarely meet one such as yourself who is a "TRUE" Christian. But... He DOES exist, and even though I'm not one of His and never will be... as my soul said in that moment... "Of COURSE he died for me."
There have been other moments which I will not bring up, where I have used my OWN faith to fight off shadows.
And I would like to point out to everyone here... the majority of you were, Athiest or Wiccan, Vodun or Christian, Agnostic or Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu, raised in a world where Abrahamic religions are everywhere. Where English can be spoken, irregardless of the national language, there you also find Abraham's God and His Son. Being raised surrounded by the idea that demons are real and that prayers can save you in your darkest hour permeates your life from childhood on up, and thus, your subconscious, to such an extent that, even as a pagan or athiest, when that moment comes, you say those psalms and those prayers, you read from those holy texts, and you BELIEVE they will work. So they do. It's the power of subconscious societal programming at work.
Even though I was raised Pagan, I've been raised in a country where there are more churches than bars, and more Christians than any other faith - even if they're mostly just parrots. That permeates my reality, and while I say my pagan prayers, and I Invoke my Goddess, and I speak face to face with my Gods in their Halls, I also have a bible underneath my bed. I haven't had a night terror in years. I trust in my wards, my house shields, I trust in my Gods and Goddesses, I trust in my spirits... but I also lock my door, so to speak. Too many times I've been touched. A bible under the bed is just insurance... even if it's not mine, it works. I don't know why, but it does.
Brightest blessings.
Selqet
"She’s all the unsung heroes who... never quit." ― R. A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series
