Goth Test

[fluffymark]

Bet you practice Wicca or Paganism or possibly more liberal Christianity. You probably love Dead Can Dance, anything ethereal, and might be vegetarian. You probably also like to hug people.

What kind of goth are you?

Created by ptocheia

Dammit, they caught me listening to All about Eve again! I'm way way too obvious, aren't I? *giggle*

Comments

Re: Christian goddesses etc.

[fluffymark]

Yay! Very interesting. When I pray, I pray to whichever aspect of god (male/female) I feel appropiate to the prayer, or quite often both at once (as opposed to a 'neuter' god - i think more in terms of 'hermaprodite'). I am gladdened that some of the established churchs take the feminine side of god onboard - in my experience, I was brought up in a church that never mentioned the female side of god at all, not even with respect to Mary. It was all very male-orientated, which is not a good thing. So when i came across the wiccan idea of an equal male/female god, i quickly took that onboard my belief system. As I take onboard any idea that just appears to make *sense* and be correct, even if thats not the established belief.

You're correct paganism has been mainly subsumed by christianity, and many old pagan beliefs are used in christian rituals. I find that modern wicca appears to take these ideas back again. Any belief systems that co-exist for so long inevitable exchange ideas, creating a overlap of beliefs. You'll ifnd a lot of modern wicca can be viewed as a very liberal form of christianity, with the exception of the question of the divinity of jesus. The form of prayer and moral guidance and beliefs in the nature of god can be identical. I will look at the website you mention later to see what they think about this.

I think you should be simply 'Catriona' as a priest.

Re: Christian goddesses etc.

[excelsis.livejournal.com]

I still don't get the Male/Female distinction.
But I'm probably very odd...
Then again there are fundemental reasons I couldn't be a Christian, some of which are why I can't be Wiccan (although Gardnerian Wicca does gell slightly more, even so it's not right for me).

That said I severely doubt any religion is right for me as I will always find some fundamental belief which I can't believe in :-)