Pagans, do you consider Jesus a god that you can choose to worship?

Question

I don't know how you all come to choose who you do to worship, but is Jesus somewhere on that list?

Answer 1

no, he is not.

Answer 2

Worshiping Jesus would make a person Christian. As I understand it the only proper way to honor Jesus is to accept him as one's savior. The concept of needing a savior is not found in my religion. So no, Jesus is not on my list. This is why one can not be both Christian and Wiccan.  

Answer 3

My personal belief is that Jesus is more of a role-model than a god.  I think that he was a great leader with some awesome ideas that were too ahead of his time, but I don't think he is in any way a deity.  He was a pretty cool dude though! :)

Blessed be! )0(

Answer 4

No. He is a role-model who had a lot of good ideas and intentions, but he's not a deity. Worshiping Jesus would make a person Christian, not Pagan.

Answer 5

Nah, I consider Jesus more of a role model than a god.  

Answer 6

no

Answer 7

answer: Nope, not at all.  I don't find anything original in his teachings that wasn't found in Judaism and in other religions and the myth built around him is just too foreign to my nature.

I choose to honor deities I think are worthy of honoring.  I pledge myself to my Northern deities.

Answer 8

No, Jesus was a good person, but no different than you or I. He's not a deity and therefore, shouldn't be worshiped as such.

Answer 9

Pagan isn’t a religion but an umbrella term for many

I think your question is best directed towards the electic crowd, as I am not very pro mixing faiths and worldviews.

I am a heathen and no non-electic heathen would include an outside god

However as I said there are many faiths/ traditions covered by the term and I’m sure you can find some that would.

Answer 10

Jesus isn't a god anyway.  He was a man.

Answer 11

No.

Answer 12

you forgot you're a pagan too.

Answer 13

I don't worship Jesus but I do know Classical Pagans ( people who follow the popular religion of the later Roman period, to be distinguished from Religio Romana which is the religion of Rome ) who worships him as a Hero.

It may surprise many people but in the early Roman empire the division between Paganism and Christianity is not as black and white as some people think. Some Pagans did have statues of Christ which they paid honor to. Of course they did not regard him in the Christian manner but saw him as a divinized hero.

Noting also that from the Hellenistic period onwards there was a view that Iao Sabaoth ( the Jewish God ) could either be Zeus/Jupiter or Dionysius. So the early period was not as distinct as one think.

An interesting thing is that if we read the City of God by Augustine where he quotes Porphyrys work "Against the Christians" Porphyrys is said to have consulted the oracle of Hecate who is supposed to have said that Christ was indeed the most pious of all men and has indeed achieved immortality ( which by default means worthy of reverence in the ancient Hellenic and Roman context ). However the oracles states the Christians have erred in only revering this individual. By not revering the Gods the Christians have cut themselves off the blessings of the Gods.

The Oracle of Hekate if we believe in the report of Porphyrys  praised Christ but not the Christians.

So it is not so cut and dry. The Classical Pagans who do take the declaration of the Oracle of Hekate as stated by Porphyrys seriously have no qualms ( if they feel like it .. since Christ is not considered a God, merely Divine ) to honor him, and indeed some do honor him.

Most Pagans however do not.

( In the ancient classical religion .. not all that is Divine is a God. The Gods stand on the highest tier of Divinity, but then you have Divinized Mortals, Genius Loci etc.. )