Forwarded from Folkish Worldview
Something interesting has been happening. Have you noticed?
When pagans (or others) argue a theory of history, or some metaphysical concept, or folkhood etc, Christians now say "well, we have this concept too", or "we can defend race and folkhood too". Do you see what's going on?
They're on the back foot. They feel left out. For the first time in thousands of years, Christians are having to argue their position, but not from the right against the left: they're arguing from the left against the right.
But they don't know how to do that. Christianity can't claim to be our tradition because we're not Christian anymore, Christianity has been replaced by modernity. And Christians can't argue that they're the defenders of authority and tradition because paganism has begun to argue that point, and convincingly.
Christianity has been the null hypothesis for centuries, but that's over. Now it's being outflanked from the right, but it's also not the leftmost point on the compass. Where can it stand?
This will only get worse.
@folkishworldview
When pagans (or others) argue a theory of history, or some metaphysical concept, or folkhood etc, Christians now say "well, we have this concept too", or "we can defend race and folkhood too". Do you see what's going on?
They're on the back foot. They feel left out. For the first time in thousands of years, Christians are having to argue their position, but not from the right against the left: they're arguing from the left against the right.
But they don't know how to do that. Christianity can't claim to be our tradition because we're not Christian anymore, Christianity has been replaced by modernity. And Christians can't argue that they're the defenders of authority and tradition because paganism has begun to argue that point, and convincingly.
Christianity has been the null hypothesis for centuries, but that's over. Now it's being outflanked from the right, but it's also not the leftmost point on the compass. Where can it stand?
This will only get worse.
@folkishworldview
Forwarded from Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)
Pagan fundamentalism (Paganism proper) means that your religion is the fundament (basis) of your worldview. It means being rooted in your ancestral faith. Example: Paganism is opposed to the theory of evolution because the myth state that humans were created.
Newcomers are slow to develop such traditionally fundamentalist, folkish view because most used to be atheists or atheistic christians.
The main issue for religion today is the concept of objective, universal (non-tribal) truth which philosophy-science promotes. That’s why philosophers were charged with impiety. Their fundament is not the lore of their people, but a bunch of supposedly higher truth. Later science popularized this approach which is why anti-folkish (rootless) pagans today use scientific data contradicting the lore as some counter to faith-rooted mythical literalism. All stems from the idealism-universalism.
Newcomers are slow to develop such traditionally fundamentalist, folkish view because most used to be atheists or atheistic christians.
The main issue for religion today is the concept of objective, universal (non-tribal) truth which philosophy-science promotes. That’s why philosophers were charged with impiety. Their fundament is not the lore of their people, but a bunch of supposedly higher truth. Later science popularized this approach which is why anti-folkish (rootless) pagans today use scientific data contradicting the lore as some counter to faith-rooted mythical literalism. All stems from the idealism-universalism.
Forwarded from The Anglo-Saxon Movement
This is something I have struggled with, to be honest. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, but a number of things made me leave that when I was still quite young. Now, although Christianity and Anglo-Saxon Paganism are both deeply important to me, I still haven’t rebuilt that fundamentalism yet despite active trying.
The loss of fundamentalism or mythic faith in this way is like a broken or atrophied limb - it takes a lot of work and specific action to rebuild. I am trying though. It is one of the many reasons I created this channel
The loss of fundamentalism or mythic faith in this way is like a broken or atrophied limb - it takes a lot of work and specific action to rebuild. I am trying though. It is one of the many reasons I created this channel
Forwarded from USSR Loved Christ
• Sell all your possessions and give them to the poor (Matthew 19:21)
• Do not become wealthy like the bourgeois (Mark 10:25)
• Your enemy is the very family which you sprouted from (Matthew 10:36)
• Abolish all private property (Luke 18:22)
• From each according to his ability. . . to each according to his needs (Matthew 25:15; Acts 4:34-35)
• Race is a social construct designed to divide the Proletariat, we must unite as one working class! (Galatians 3:28, Col. 3:11)
• He who does not work neither shall he eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10, later adopted by Lenin)
@USSRLovedChrist
• Do not become wealthy like the bourgeois (Mark 10:25)
• Your enemy is the very family which you sprouted from (Matthew 10:36)
• Abolish all private property (Luke 18:22)
• From each according to his ability. . . to each according to his needs (Matthew 25:15; Acts 4:34-35)
• Race is a social construct designed to divide the Proletariat, we must unite as one working class! (Galatians 3:28, Col. 3:11)
• He who does not work neither shall he eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10, later adopted by Lenin)
@USSRLovedChrist
Forwarded from Folkish Kingdom
Summer Solstice is here, honor the Gods/Goddesses, spend time with your family and enjoy life and nature.
Forwarded from European Folk
Enthroned Zeus (Greek, c. 100 BC) - modeled after the Olympian Zeus by Pheidas (c. 430 BC)
Forwarded from Pagan Revivalism
Join us for a livestream here in a little while today as we delve into practical theology & connecting with the Vættir!
Stay tuned and I'll see you all there
Gods love you
Stay tuned and I'll see you all there
Gods love you