. . . I wonder how many "Christians" would attack me, shun me, or vilify me -- whether to my face or behind my back.
I'm thinking a silver one with five colored stones to represent the Five Elements.
Two or three decades ago I had the idea to draw a pentacle in my driveway with colored sidewalk chalk [of course I would have fancied it up with mysterious sigils and maybe even placed some candles around it (I'm a bicyclist, so that would not have been an impractical obstruction)]. One of my acquaintances at the time said it would probably be a bad idea -- and I think that advice had more to do with community backlash than occult sequelae.
@Arkturos saidWhy are you wondering what Christians would do? You think they would be offended by that, and you seem to have no concern about offending them. Why would it matter?
. . . I wonder how many "Christians" would attack me, shun me, or vilify me -- whether to my face or behind my back.
I'm thinking a silver one with five colored stones to represent the Five Elements.
Two or three decades ago I had the idea to draw a pentacle in my driveway with colored sidewalk chalk [of course I would have fancied it up with mysterious sigils and mayb ...[text shortened]... e a bad idea -- and I think that advice had more to do with community backlash than occult sequelae.
@KellyJay saidI think it's a very practical thing to wonder. I'm not sure a talisman or a magical shield would be enough to defend me or my property against a physical attack from a certain type of proudly aggressive "Christian" -- let alone the "evil eye" of the more subtle and insidious ones.
Why are you wondering what Christians would do?
And as you might know, some Christians would probably consider wiccan or magical pendants to be Satanic.
(On a side-note, these days I would never wear any of the Norse symbols, because those have been co-opted by white-supremacist groups.)
@Arkturos saidQ: If I were to wear a pentacle pendant I wonder how many "Christians" would attack me, shun me, or vilify me.
. . . I wonder how many "Christians" would attack me, shun me, or vilify me -- whether to my face or behind my back.
I'm thinking a silver one with five colored stones to represent the Five Elements.
Two or three decades ago I had the idea to draw a pentacle in my driveway with colored sidewalk chalk [of course I would have fancied it up with mysterious sigils and mayb ...[text shortened]... e a bad idea -- and I think that advice had more to do with community backlash than occult sequelae.
A: Far fewer than you realize. This might shock you, but the vast majority of people (Christian or other) don't give a hoot what you wear, since their primary concern is themselves.
@LittleFox saidThen why are you here, do you really think we care what you think??
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I like it, a pentagon on your driveway. You have courage. I think you are just trying to say "There is no mystical realm, or even more "there is no god". I agree with you, there is no god! We have evolved from the earth.
@LittleFox saidWhere did your first cause come from, because it is dated as having an age.
@Arkturos
I like it, a pentagon on your driveway. You have courage. I think you are just trying to say "There is no mystical realm, or even more "there is no god". I agree with you, there is no god! We have evolved from the earth.
@Arkturos saidI would just point out that hundreds of people who saw it would do nothing except maybe snicker.
. . . I wonder how many "Christians" would attack me, shun me, or vilify me -- whether to my face or behind my back.
I'm thinking a silver one with five colored stones to represent the Five Elements.
Two or three decades ago I had the idea to draw a pentacle in my driveway with colored sidewalk chalk [of course I would have fancied it up with mysterious sigils and mayb ...[text shortened]... e a bad idea -- and I think that advice had more to do with community backlash than occult sequelae.
Your friend rightly advised against doing it because it would attract the attention of the wrong kind of people.
Christianity is wonderful, but it is also dependent on the person to live as a Christian. While our religion can make people who cooperate with it into Saints, unfortunately some people have a lot more walking to do to reach Sainthood.
@KellyJay saidWhere did your first cause come from?
Where did your first cause come from, because it is dated as having an age.
Why do you assume only your particular God is uncaused? - What arrogance is that?
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@LittleFox saidSorry for the late reply. No, it's not that I don't believe in a mystical realm or things being connected funny behind the scenes, or that there is no God. I guess it would be a kind of rebellious clowning -- but depending on where one lives, it might very well endanger oneself or one's habitat to draw a pentacle (I should have written that instead of "pentagon" in the OP) in one's driveway.
@Arkturos
I like it, a pentagon on your driveway. You have courage. I think you are just trying to say "There is no mystical realm, or even more "there is no god". I agree with you, there is no god! We have evolved from the earth.
Similarly, I think there are some parts of the country (USA and probably some other countries) where it would be either unwise or disrespectful or both to do "spooky magic" shows or to pretend to be psychic or to pretend to channel the spirits of the dead.
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@KellyJay saidI think one valid reply would be: "Nobody really knows."
Where did your first cause come from, because it is dated as having an age.
Millennia ago some people made assertions for whatever reasons they had at the time, and those assertions have been repeated throughout our scanty ages -- never mind that we are really not in a position to test and confirm or deny those from our little vantage point.
Not to undermine or expand your or anyone's faith, but who was the reporter on the scene who wrote the first verses of Genesis as things developed?
Or, what if Consciousness were an inherent or potential feature of the Cosmos, but occurred at the same time as the Big Bang in a similarly undeveloped state?
What if God is omniscient but not all-powerful? What if instead of praise and worship and fear, God could really use some comfort and consolation and sympathy, considering all God would have seen and maybe felt over the aeons?