Saturday, May 28, 2011

Top 25 Faith Blogs

Circle of Moms is holding a contest for the top 25 faith blogs, those top 25 will then be in a newsletter that gets sent to TONS of people. I follow a blog called Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom, and right now she happens to be in first place. Unfortunately, this has many others in an uproar. Why you ask? Because they think pagan faiths are not FAITH. Our beliefs are the "wrong faith" therefore it can not be a faith at all and should not be allowed in the competition.
As you may have guessed, most of this is being said by those of christian faith. Which is truly sad as I have met so many wonderful, loving, accepting and down right amazing christians. Its simply awful that christian blogs are being made to look like they are all run by holier-than-thou women of the past. These women seem to forget they are the voice of a community, and what they write can be seen as the voice of many.
The point of me mentioning this is that many people seem to think paganism is a "minority" and that we can be kicked around by the bigger religions. Not so! Since all of this came to light, CPSM has sky-rocketed in votes to the number one spot, while many of the blogs now holding a spot in the top 25 are pagan as well as other "minority" religions such judaism and muslim. Our community has shown a tidal wave of support and commitment. We want to show that minority religions are faith too, and that just because a religion says they are the one true religion, does not make it so and does not silence the others.
Let me be clear in saying this isn't to bash christianity and if you have a problem with christians, don't voice it here. There really are many more good christians out there than crazy ones. Also, not all of the christian blogs are bashing the other religions. The blog in the number 2 spot is not only a very interesting and well thought out blog, but it also has stayed out of the bashing, relying instead on her blog to get her votes. Which obviously it has!
I hope that anyone reading this will go take a look at these blogs and vote for the ones deserving of a top spot. You don't have to sign up for anything, just click the thumb next to the blog to give it your vote. You can vote every 24 hours and you can vote for multiple blogs in a day.
~Lynx

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