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[–] 16951964? ago 

The source of Christianity's problems lie in the Bible. The OT is objectively bad, filled with nonsenses like a god that promotes a thieving parasitical and genocidal people as his chosen people, and that's just going from the text itself. Christianity was at it's best when most of it's followers were illiterate, and thus did what came naturally to them. All the knightly virtues have tons in common with pagan virtues, and nearly none in common with semitic doctrine.

Just take honor; what place does personal honor have in a religion that says you must meekly submit to and beg favors from a capricious God? You are his lamb and he is your Shepherd! It's the opposite of honor. But you couldn't possibly understand chivalry if you didn't include honor.

As Christians got more literate and the Bible became more available, priests found they had to follow written doctrine or they would rightly lose credibility. That's why around the 1500s you suddenly have an emergence of insane cults, genocidal doctrinal wars, and witch burnings. But you can't just replace the texts, it's far too late for that.

Someone who is actually a monotheist would be best served by following the writings that the Jews plagiarized from, i.e. Zoroastrianism and Roman Stoicism, the first for its beauty and the latter for its logic. If you're an agnostic, the pagans are closer to your thoughts, and yes most of them thought of their myths as metaphors and not the literal truth. If you're an atheist, read Nietzsche. But semitic doctrines have no philosophical merit, only submit or die. Abandon them like Yahweh abandoned Job's family.

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[–] 16951971? ago 

<Same poster, different device

If you're an agnostic, the pagans are closer to your thoughts, and yes most of them thought of their myths as metaphors and not the literal truth.

I figured I should back this one up before the kikes start shouting about LARPagans.

From Revilo Oliver's America's Decline, pg. 146.

The noble religion of the historical Greeks,which was in its way no less profound than Buddhism or Vedanta and was certainly more beautiful, is often misunderstood by the modern mind because it differed from Christianity in a basic postulate that is sometimes overlooked. Today,both believers and skeptics regard religion as based on historical fact - eg, the Immaculate Conception either did or did not take place - whereas the Greek mind saw no possibility of ascertaining historical facts concerning its gods. There was no revelation and therefore no dogma. In the Greek mind four distinct concepts took the place of what we regard as theology:

1) religion as a work of art, ie. the legitimate exercise of poetic fancy which produced the literary mythology;

2) religion as speculation by the human reason about natural phenomena - a concept already present in Homer, for which see R.K. Hack, The Concept of God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates;

3) religion as civic rites which affirmed participation in a common polity but not a common faith; and

4) religion as an irrational emotional experience, particularly for those who chose to be initiated into one or another of the mysteries.

The four apparently diverse concepts were united by an under-lying piety which is well described in Thaddeus Zielinski's Religion of Ancient Greece, and which developed historically in the way described in Gilbert Murray's Five Stages of Greek Religion.

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[–] 16951981? ago 

Revilo Oliver was an incredible articulator! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neVZYotznwo&t=1963s

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[–] 16951976? ago