animism

[theyd]

thought i would look into animism .. so went surfing on the net ... learn some .. found this one place that really speaks very bad about it and groups that belief in with some other religion and the part that hit my funny bone is that it liken it with the one religion that i had follow for about 30 years. So now it really has my attention. As that religion I did like but it just wasn't enough and came up lacking in many area's. ... so off i go to learn something new ... or who know maybe something i have already knew and just confirming it ??

[watershield]

Just as in any path, there are versions of Anisism.
I consider myself as a selfstyled animist. I believe that all things have a life force. I do not worship any god, rather I see them as guides. I commune with Isis, Hera and Zeus and they don't seem to have any issue with how I see them.
I don't do a lot of ritual but do spend as much time with nature as I can.


Can you give a copy or link to the site you were looking at...I always need a laugh.

[theyd]

watershield; i will try and find it again.

[theyd]

found it
www.qotquestions,org/Animism.html

[watershield]

So every one is on the same page here's the text:

What is Animism?



Question: "What is Animism?"

Answer: Animism is the belief that everything has a soul or spirit, an anima in Latin, including animals, plants, rocks, mountains, rivers, and stars. Animists believe each anima is a powerful spirit that can help or hurt them and are to be worshipped or feared or in some way attended to. Animism is a primitive religion whose adherents have for thousands of years deified animals, stars, and idols of any kind, and practiced spiritism, witchcraft, divination and astrology. They use magic, spells, enchantments, superstitions, amulets, talismans, charms, or anything that they believe will help to protect them from the evil spirits and placate the good spirits that are found everywhere in everything.

Elements of animism are present in many false religions including Hinduism, Mormonism and all New Age cults. False religion always teaches in some way that the spirit within human beings is really God and the practices of the religion will help us to realize this and develop the god-spirit so that we, too, may be God. This is the same old lie Satan has been propagating since the garden of Eden when he tempted Adam and Eve by telling them "you shall be as God" (Genesis 3:5).

The Bible states unequivocally that there is one God and everything else, from the angels in heaven to the grains of sand on the beach, was created by Him (Genesis 1:1). Any religion that teaches there is more than one god is teaching a lie. “Before Me there was no god formed, and there will be none after Me” (Isaiah 43:10) and “I am the Lord and there is no other; besides Me there is no god” (Isaiah 45:5). The worship of false gods, who are really not gods at all, is a sin God especially hates because it robs Him of the glory that is rightfully His. A check of any Bible concordance on the subject of idolatry will show how many times God forbid the worship of false gods.

In addition, the Bible strictly forbids the practices of the animists. "A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:27). Such practices are open doors for demons to enter into the lives and souls of people who are deceived by the lie that is animism. The Bible condemns those who practice such things in very strong terms: abominations to God, stone them to death, the fire shall burn them (Deuteronomy 18; Leviticus 20, Isaiah 47).

As with all false religion, animism is simply another scheme of Satan, the father of lies. Yet many throughout the world are being deceived by the “adversary, the devil, [who] walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).


This just another one of those bible thumping site that exagerates and twists every thing to prove they are right and justify THEIR beliefs.
It makes me laugh that they call Hinduism and Mormanism False faiths.

[theyd]

"It makes me laugh that they call Hinduism and Mormanism False faiths."

me too lol as i was a morman for many of years .. so i figure maybe i am on to something here. But i have always believed that everything has it's own spirit/energy. how can it not?