There is nothing inherently wrong nor evil with pagan beliefs, but some beliefs and practices such as blood sacrifice are not moral nor ethical in the modern world. They are our Paleolithic and Neolithic spiritual heritage, but nonetheless these beliefs do not reflect Revelation from God as it spiritually evolved to a more mature universal view of God as taught in the Baha'i Faith.
The evidence of the evolution of religions is universal to all cultures of the world. First forms of Animism dominated, the immortality of the soul reflected in burial rites as early as the paleolithic, human lords and gods, polytheism and incarnate Gods evolved to Monotheism, and from the 'hands on' cataphatic to a more apophatic view of God. The animal and human sacrifice of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age, evolved to symbolic sacrifice.
God is not a chess player
with the white pieces
God is the sea
. . . and we are the fishes.
There is no rational nor logical reason to cling to imitations of Pagan beliefs of the past. The Pagan view of the necessity of some sort of blood sacrifice considered necessary for salvation or pleasing God most definitely needs to be given up.
The evidence of the evolution of religions is universal to all cultures of the world. First forms of Animism dominated, the immortality of the soul reflected in burial rites as early as the paleolithic, human lords and gods, polytheism and incarnate Gods evolved to Monotheism, and from the 'hands on' cataphatic to a more apophatic view of God. The animal and human sacrifice of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age, evolved to symbolic sacrifice.
God is not a chess player
with the white pieces
God is the sea
. . . and we are the fishes.
There is no rational nor logical reason to cling to imitations of Pagan beliefs of the past. The Pagan view of the necessity of some sort of blood sacrifice considered necessary for salvation or pleasing God most definitely needs to be given up.
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