Pagan Prejudice

I found a new local shop that I am so in love with. It is called Gaea and they sell all sorts of metaphysical items. I had a great time looking around and ended up buying a couple things. They aren’t inexpensive but it’s nice to have a local place to go when I don’t have time to wait on Amazon to ship me something. I even got into a great discussion with the owner who gave me cards for some local pagans in town.

I was telling hubby about the shop and as usual our discussion went onto other topics in regards to paganism. I don’t know how we got onto this particular topic but we did lol. What I had said was that Christianity wasn’t nature based and that some Christians prove that point by saying “You shouldn’t worship the Creation but the Creator”. He took offense to this, something that I had not meant. His response was “that sounds like Pagan Prejudice”. Now there is no doubt that some pagans are prejudiced against Christians. This usually arises from some of the crap they have dealt with in  coming to their particular path and dealing with the prostelyzing. Regardless of your spiritual path, all of us are capable of being prejudiced of other paths outside our own. But in this case I have to say, no.

His viewpoint is that Christianity should be nature based because the Creator gave us Creation. I certainly appreciated hearing that. Christians as a whole have a somewhat unspoken reputation for not caring too much about the Earth. This of course is changing and will continue to change and I mean no offense to my Christian readers whom are ecological conscious of their home. Hell, some of you all are more ecological than I am. But, Christianity isn’t nature based because they do not honor the elements and see power in the earth and moon (and even sun). That is where I think his confusion comes in. He doesn’t beleive in honoring the elements, that it goes against God. I can respect that, but he  proved my point.

The most interesting part of the discussion is when he said ” I have never heard a Christian say ‘worship the Creator not the Creation’”. Well, why would he? He isn’t worshipping the Creation. When you’re in discussion with a Christian and they know you are Christian, they don’t exactly feel the need to drive that point home. He doesn’t seem to understand that what some of what we pagans hear, he will never hear. It’s a moot point. And I have to say I was equally frustrated. He just couldn’t seem to beleive that anyone had ever told me that before. Even after he saw some of the things that Ms. Kimberly Daniels put in her article about witches (click here to see my video on that). We have worked past this now. He is still in disbeleif but he seems to understand my standpoint.

So I am interested in hearing some comments about a similar situation. Have you heard something from a different religion and someone else of that religion alleged that it was “made up prejudice” just to be angry with that religion?