[–] Joe_McCarthy ago
Neo-paganism has little utility in the modern world. It's more like a LARP. The pagans I know don't actually believe in the ancient gods. They're akin to followers of the Star Wars religion for all intents and purposes. It's hard to see a community being devoted enough to build something of a new society around it.
[–] Quaestorr ago
I find it refreshing that CervicalStrike (what a nickname, lol) doesn't opt to carry on the 'tradition' of wannabe-Hebrews that is often very strong in ethnic-preservationist circles in the U.S.
[–] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Devoted Christians like the Amish have made a functioning community of religious commitment in the US for centuries. Odinists doing similar strikes me as pretty ridiculous.
Granted, I have a pretty strong prejudice against pagans but I challenge anyone to prove me wrong here in my appraisal. A 'living god' is necessary to make religion work. Odin is dead even to practicing Odinists. It's all half-assed ritual reconstructed. I prefer board games.
[–] Quaestorr ago (edited ago)
Would you take an Amish person seriously (i.e. as someone sensible to have a converstaion with) if he would still take his religion seriously. I wouldn't. I couldn't, even if would desire it.
A 'living god' that is either the ethno-god of some other people, or, allegedly, of all mankind, will at some point lead the flock into multi-ethnicism again, as he has done before. There is no force in Europe, not even the combined socialist parties, that managed to get in so many non-whites, as the various christian churches, through promoting adoption of African babies and sheltering refugees etc.
And what is this 'living' quality of Christ or YHWH other than some cultivated psychotic responses? If we need such hallucinating, atavistic urges, we might as well condition ourselves to get rid of the Hebrew jargon.
I recognize the problems with that: at least the Judeo-Christian tradition has been with us for centuries, and is ingrained into our collective psyche. But some traditional elements (i.e. the Christmas tree) are heathen is essence anyway. Shouldn't we stick to emphasizing these elements, and start working to slowly transform from christened-Europids, to indigenous-spiritual Europids?