Okay I am a Wiccan and I am proud, when someone asks me a question about Wicca, I calmly explain an answer (unless they are one of those people who ask me and then tell me, no matter what the answer i give, that I'm going to hell, which is pointless cause Wiccan's don't believe in hell, well most of us don't anyways). But one day I was having a decent and calm talk of religion with one of my best friends and I asked a question that bugged me all the time when I was Morman, that applies to all religion with a bible. How do you know... that what is in that bible is really true? I mean the Christian bible has been rewritten and translated so many times that how do you know what it says is true and that someone who messed with it did not change something cause they didn't like what God said? Same with the Morman bible, the man who wrote it was the "only" on to see what God said and wrote it in a book. So basically, how do you know what you're reading is what it was supposed to be and was truely left unchanged from gods word?

Well my friend got all definsive and told me that it just didn't happen. I said but how do you know? These books were rewritten and translated by "the sinful hands of man" and did God not have a follower who betrayed him? How do you know for sure what your reading is true. Again she just got all mad and yelled at me and said that it JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN! Another girl in my class heard the convo and got all mad at me too. I didn't diss the religion and I didn't say anything mean, I just asked a simple question that had bugged me even before I became Wicca.

Why can't someone just say. "I don't know... I just need to believe it's true" or something like that or just say plainly "I don't know" or "I never thought about it", that's what I say when I don't have an answer. So why the do people always insist on yelling?

p3nn

Sadly quite true about ppl not wanting their beliefs questioned. It's what's called a comfort zone. Anything outside that zone makes them uncomfortable to the point that they must protect the comfort zone at all costs

s_cianci

For a lot of people, religion is a very personal thing. I'm not even sure why that is. I have my own religious beliefs but I don't get bent out of shape towards those who believe otherwise. I just accept the fact that there are people who will believe differently from what I do and that's that. I don't try to argue with them or convince them that my way is right and their way is wrong. I don't tell them that they're going to hell even if I believe that they are. As it is, I don't know much about Wicca or any other faith except my own so it's really hard for me to make any definitive statements one way or another. As for the Bible, it's true that I accept it on a matter of faith. I believe it to be true but I won't get angry or upset with you if you question it.

mrah

my truth is that the bible, and other religious works, have been altered through the ages. because they were written and translated by mortals (i hesitate to say men for fear of offending). if you are truly open minded, i recomend watching dogma. it adds some interesting perspective and makes you think about religion.
oh, and people are afraid of things they do not know or understand.