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I think that I might have given some people here some wrong impressions in the past. So, I'd just like to clear a few things up.
1. I am a Christian.
2. This means that I believe in one God, who expresses Himself as a Trinity of people - God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. This also means that I believe all other gods/godesses/deities-of-any-description are fakes, invented by humans or by Satan to trap people and keep them away from God.
4. In addition, I believe that everyone who isn't a Christian is going to Hell.
5. Understandably, I would really rather all you people didn't go to Hell. Hence, I'm praying for you. And I'm going to keep praying for you. Even if you ask me not to.

So, there we go.

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Yes, the name of Christianity has been used by people for their own personal, political and social ends. No, I'm not proud of that. However, I take the view that the very reason all those people chose Christianity to use and twist was that they were spreading some version of the truth - albeit highly distorted in whatever way served them best - and hence they were more believable.

In 'old times', names had meanings. So it's only sensible that the names used for the Enemy mean that kind of thing. The name is not important - it's the concept that's transmitted which is important. (The whole horned red guy thing is just to put a picture to the Devil - to the malevolent presence who has chosen to spread evil in the world. It's not Biblical and not meant to be taken literally. It probably was originally spread by the people who were using Christianity to advance their power base and so wanted to discredit the local concept of deity.)

I wasn't specifically condemning the Wiccan faith in my post. I agree that it does have elements of the truth within it - that is what makes it powerful. But it does not have the whole truth in it, and as such it is a trap for people's hearts and minds. And I will continue to pray that more people will escape from that trap.

I know you weren't condemning Wiccan faith, and I apologize for going way "off the deep end" with my reply to that.
You pray. I pray. Everyone, in some way, prays, but to say that because they do not pray to your God they are going to hell is a highly prejudiced remark.
Again I apologize for offending you, but the forces within me couldn't help but want to defend my belies, as well as anyone who doesnt worship the Christian God.

No religion is the "whole truth," no matter how much you want it to be. There are elements of the truth in all religions. It's why I'm an eclectic pagan. I can't be bound down to one particular path.

Please, get off your high horse. It's offensive, and you're not doing Christianity any favors by representing it as the One True Way.

I've often wondered why anyone would think that threatening nonbelievers with the painful wrath of an angry God would be a motivator for conversion. Logically that makes no sense.

Uhm... Christianity represents *itself* as the 'One True Way'. So I'm doing it precisely the same amount of favours that it does itself.

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life - no-one comes to the Father except by me" - John 14:6