Most of what we know about pagan beliefs and practices comes from Christian and Muslim scholars who established the infrastructure, institutions, and professional lineages that formalized their oral histories that'd otherwise have mutated and otherwise been diluted over time. Even after that a lot of later archaeology and philology on these pagans was only possible thanks to the modern world that Christianity established thanks to its emphasis on scholasticism and rigorous discourse. It's due to this stability that intellectuals and artists could become prosperous and secure enough to write tomes and make elaborate paintings about how great it must have been to be free of civilization's trappings. There is some truth to this, God was indeed originally found in the Wilderness, and one must necessarily be able to rewild and otherwise archaicize themselves in order to reach divine perfection in this life. Nonetheless, don't throw out the tapestry in order to remove some inconvenient threads. If you think of the pagans as martyrs then you're internalizing a view that is eminently Christian because the pagans believed it was no virtue to lose to one's enemies and in fact converted to Christianity because they saw the Cross as stronger than even their oldest trees. Christ is King of Kings and in His symbol we will always conquer despite the failings of Christ's sheep from moment-to-moment.
>and in fact converted to Christianity because they saw the Cross as stronger than even their oldest trees
lmao no, they converted because their traitorous king would just kill them otherwise.
>they converted because their traitorous king would just kill them otherwise.
So? Is this supposed to make them look better? I thought that death in battle would send them straight to Valhalla, why did they become such pussies all of a sudden?
You can have both that life and have Christianity, but it would require white to produce lots of white children, but white women rather be raped by non-whites and go existent before that's a possibility.
Paganism did not engender the idyllic utopia you see here. Under paganism, you had: >slavery >castration >conscription >the dominion of fate (so no social advancement) >morally indifferent gods >human sacrifice >struggle for its own sake
None of you would have enjoyed living under it. Not one.
Christianity did not engender the idyllic utopia you see here. Under christianity, you had: >slavery >castration >conscription >the dominion of fate (so no social advancement) >morally indifferent gods >human sacrifice >struggle for its own sake
None of you would have enjoyed living under it. Not one.
>slavery
Christianity is geared towards manumission. This is obvious for anyone who has actually read the Bible. >castration
Israelites are forbidden from entering into the congregation if they are eunuchs. Hence, Israelites do not castrate Israelites. Hence, Christianity, which is the spiritual Israel, is negatively disposed towards physical castration. >conscription
The God of the OT states that Israelites do not have to fight if they are afraid. Christianity teaches its followers to turn the other cheek and to simply move to another town if they are being persecuted. >the dominion of fate
God explicitly speaks out against such concepts as fate and fortune. >morally indifferent gods
God cares immensely about how we treat each other. >human sacrifice
Is abhorred by the God of the Bible. >struggle for its own sake
Christians struggle for something; pagans ultimately believe that the struggle itself is all that there is.
>castration
Pic rel are Christian sects anon. We have had a multitude of them that love mutilating themselves via desex, or being desexed by those in the church,
Almost everything you put up there was still present even after Christianization.
"Travels one day, then a second,
So the third from morn till evening,
When appear the gates of Pohya,
With her snow-clad hills and mountains."
- Kalevala: Rune XLIX: Restoration of the Sun and Moon. John Crawford, 1888 (translation).
Who?
The israelites of the spirit who invented annual property taxes.
Korea
It was for your own good.
doesn't seem to have worked out well tbh
It was for the good of your soul.
Doesn't seem very soulful at all
when did we live in rivendel?
LOTR is unironically real history.
>he doesn't know about Ælfwine
Lotr but with christcucks barging in?
Lotr is christcuck to the core.
Most of what we know about pagan beliefs and practices comes from Christian and Muslim scholars who established the infrastructure, institutions, and professional lineages that formalized their oral histories that'd otherwise have mutated and otherwise been diluted over time. Even after that a lot of later archaeology and philology on these pagans was only possible thanks to the modern world that Christianity established thanks to its emphasis on scholasticism and rigorous discourse. It's due to this stability that intellectuals and artists could become prosperous and secure enough to write tomes and make elaborate paintings about how great it must have been to be free of civilization's trappings. There is some truth to this, God was indeed originally found in the Wilderness, and one must necessarily be able to rewild and otherwise archaicize themselves in order to reach divine perfection in this life. Nonetheless, don't throw out the tapestry in order to remove some inconvenient threads. If you think of the pagans as martyrs then you're internalizing a view that is eminently Christian because the pagans believed it was no virtue to lose to one's enemies and in fact converted to Christianity because they saw the Cross as stronger than even their oldest trees. Christ is King of Kings and in His symbol we will always conquer despite the failings of Christ's sheep from moment-to-moment.
The cross was defeated by the fedora. It's over.
>and in fact converted to Christianity because they saw the Cross as stronger than even their oldest trees
lmao no, they converted because their traitorous king would just kill them otherwise.
>they converted because their traitorous king would just kill them otherwise.
So? Is this supposed to make them look better? I thought that death in battle would send them straight to Valhalla, why did they become such pussies all of a sudden?
Because not everyone wanted to go there, and it wasn't the ultimate goal unless you were a patron follower of Wotan/Odin.
Yes, anon. Each king would have single-handedly slaughtered his entire kingdom Dynasty Warriors style had their subjects not converted.
The literate classical Romans and Greeks were pagan.
Lmao at the puppy biting the robe of the priest. Cute detail.
Identical to hotepnagger schizophrenia.
Wewuzzing is one hell of a drug.
this is our sanctuary and the sacred tree they cut
unironically could Uglanov and Ivanovs paintings have influenced the Lotr team?
You can have both that life and have Christianity, but it would require white to produce lots of white children, but white women rather be raped by non-whites and go existent before that's a possibility.
they desecrated our fairmaidens
No more cum-drinker worship for you homosexual.
Paganism did not engender the idyllic utopia you see here. Under paganism, you had:
>slavery
>castration
>conscription
>the dominion of fate (so no social advancement)
>morally indifferent gods
>human sacrifice
>struggle for its own sake
None of you would have enjoyed living under it. Not one.
Christianity did not engender the idyllic utopia you see here. Under christianity, you had:
>slavery
>castration
>conscription
>the dominion of fate (so no social advancement)
>morally indifferent gods
>human sacrifice
>struggle for its own sake
None of you would have enjoyed living under it. Not one.
>slavery
Christianity is geared towards manumission. This is obvious for anyone who has actually read the Bible.
>castration
Israelites are forbidden from entering into the congregation if they are eunuchs. Hence, Israelites do not castrate Israelites. Hence, Christianity, which is the spiritual Israel, is negatively disposed towards physical castration.
>conscription
The God of the OT states that Israelites do not have to fight if they are afraid. Christianity teaches its followers to turn the other cheek and to simply move to another town if they are being persecuted.
>the dominion of fate
God explicitly speaks out against such concepts as fate and fortune.
>morally indifferent gods
God cares immensely about how we treat each other.
>human sacrifice
Is abhorred by the God of the Bible.
>struggle for its own sake
Christians struggle for something; pagans ultimately believe that the struggle itself is all that there is.
>castration
Pic rel are Christian sects anon. We have had a multitude of them that love mutilating themselves via desex, or being desexed by those in the church,
Almost everything you put up there was still present even after Christianization.
Subtle.
>that architecture in 400 A.D.
sure thing
"Travels one day, then a second,
So the third from morn till evening,
When appear the gates of Pohya,
With her snow-clad hills and mountains."
- Kalevala: Rune XLIX: Restoration of the Sun and Moon. John Crawford, 1888 (translation).