I am a Pagan, yes, I am, one of those tree-hugging dirt-
worshippers.
I need to talk to you, you members of the big three, Jews,
Christians,
Moslems, you big-money, big-power, big-gun monsters.
Monsters? Yes, monsters, and don't stand there like kids on a
playground
pointing at each other going "He started it." either. From Jericho to
Medina to
Inquisition you have all been doing it, and in its doing have cursed
yourselves
with the horror into which you now seek to drag us all.
Conquest. The belief that you can force belief upon another,
that one set of
words, and symbols, chants and ways of acting are the only right way,
and if you
just force them upon everyone else then everything will be just
dandy. We have
watched you all blind yourselves to Love and honor, pretend your God
does not see
the filth of cruelty with which you smear your spirits, and run amok
pursuing the
impossible.
Belief, like Love cannot be stolen, for it only exists when
it is given. And we
have watched your God turn his eyes from you in horror at what you
do, and
watched you betray your own laws, and sometimes you have slain us, or
tortured
us, or stolen our goods and lands, but we have not submitted, for we
are the
unconquered.
Unconquered. People who are unable to submit, who know a
truth in their
bones, in their hearts and souls, a simple, silly belief that we
cannot kneel in
submission, for we were meant to dance in Love. To destroy us you
would have to
destroy Love, and although you seem to be doing your best, I don't
think you will
succeed, for Love cannot be slain. It is reborn each time you look
upon your
children, it waits there within your laws, for you to cleanse
yourselves of hatred and
rage and fear, and throw off the demons with which you curse
yourselves.
Yourselves. The demons which rend you, you have each made,
they are
your own, and until you look upon yourselves in truth, and forgive
yourselves for
losing sight of the Love written into your laws, and put the Love
back into your
hearts, they will rend you, for only Love can defeat them.
Christians. I have heard you say the lie again and again,
that we Pagans
sacrifice babies. Now I see you standing before a leader who promises
you safety if
you will only allow the sacrifice of thousands of children. How dare
you stand with
gun in hand and hatred in your heart and speak the name of Jesus. He
stands
before you always, but you cannot bear to look upon Him, or hear Him,
for you
would have to see the sorrow in His eyes and voice, and hear Him ask
what you are
doing in His name. You began making the demons which attack you when
you
forgot to be guided by His Love, and He cannot shield you from them
until you open
yourselves again to His Love.
Jews. Do you want the Promised Land? Read your Laws again.
Not the
tangle of myriad little codes, the real Laws. The Ten. Wherever you
are, on or off
this Planet, the Promised Land can be, for it is there waiting for
you within those
Ten Laws. But if you must covet, if you must kill, do not wonder that
you wander in
a wilderness of thorns, and are torn by demons, for you have led
yourselves there,
and have raised the demons. Will the words "By the Love of God" ever
have any
Power if you will not let the Love of God into your hearts? Those
Laws are God's
Love made real and given to you to guide you from the wilderness, but
until you
obey them with and within God's Love, they will be just scratches on
rocks, and will
neither guide you or shield you.
Moslems. Before the gates of Heaven stands and Angel, and it
weeps. It
weeps because the Children of the Faithful appear before it , asking
to enter, with
the blood of children upon their hands, and the tears of children
upon their robes,
and it must refuse them, for all children are the children of Allah,
and Allah hears
the prayers of every child who cries. Mohammed wrestled an Angel, and
defeated
demons, to bring you the Words of The Merciful One. Now you all
wrestle Angels,
and battle demons to keep those Words. It is the same Angel, for it
is the Angel who
can only be defeated by Love, and it will throw you down unless, like
the Prophet,
you free the Love within your hearts. They are the same demons,
unfaithful and
wicked, and you summon them by letting them into your hearts. Hatred,
rage, and
fear are their names, and know that if you call them to you they will
turn upon you,
and your lands and your lives will become hell. Do you think to have
the Compassion
of the Compassionate one without letting his Compassion into your
hearts? If you
would be safe in the hands of the All-Seeing, the All-knowing, the
All-Merciful, you
must see all of His children, and know of His Love, and be faithful
to His Mercy.
Mohammed brought His words to you, hear them. If you will make war
upon the
innocent, war will be made upon your innocence. If you would shed
the blood of
children, your children's blood will be shed. If you would have the
Love of His words
bless your lives and your lands and your children then see the Love
of His Words,
and be faithful to that Love.

Like I said, I am a Pagan. If you would revile my beliefs,
then let me tell you
some of them, so you will know what it is you condemn.
I worship both God and Goddess, and I believe we are all
their children, and
they weep when we rend each other.
I believe in Love, and I believe that if you let it guide
you, it will shield you
from evil.
I believe in freedom, that no person can be Lord over another
person.
I believe that all Life is sacred, and when we can honor that
Life within the
laws of Life we will be at peace with our Gods, and freed from our
demons, and able
to be all we can be.
I believe we shape our worlds by what we do, not what we say
or what
symbols we kneel before, that what we will do, we will receive.

As you will Hate, so will you be Hated,
As you will Love, so will you be Loved.

As you will harm, so will you be harmed,
As you will heal, so will you be healed.

So there you have it, a piece of my mind, and I feel much
better for having
said it. You clowns keep saying how awful we Pagans are, and trying
to get rid of
us, meanwhile people are being turned into demons by what you are
doing and
running around slaughtering the innocent, the face of the Planet is
being fouled with
your pollution and greed, and Species of Life are dying, the whole
fabric of Life
starting to unravel while you are unable to see the real emergency .
Wake up, fools, before you kill us all.

By
A Pagan named Thermal