To address this Christian mindset / nonsese: https://www.group-telegram.com/hammerandvajra.com/4244

Let's address this.

1. First off, the term Neo-Paganism is used primarily as a means to discourage people from seeking it out and label it new age. It's an attempt to deligitimize practices.

2. Even among Occultic and later left leaning New Age Pagans it was much closer to Catholicism and Ceremonial Magics than anything Protestant.

3. This whole argument is ridiculous. They claim things are declining in the hope that you will lose faith and believe them. It's disenfranchisement.
The opposite is the actual case.
Paganism, Heathenism, Folk, and Dharmic faiths are growing.
The majority or the faiths today, which are not left wing Wiccan, are based on Reconstruction, Cross cultural studies, ancestor veneration, deep study, and direct spiritual experience.
Far from anything related to protestantism, and increasingly less and less hold over from Abrahamic faiths whatsoever due to research and reverse engineering.

Dont let mouth pieces like this speak about your faith to you.
Embody it and live it.
There are plenty of resources, groups, and growth out there.

If this isn't what was intended by the post I am replying to and he only was targeting "neopagan / wiccans" sure. But even among them, despite my disagreements with them, there can be more in common in their founding principles than with hyper conversion pushing Abrahamics.

Aus Richard Wagners „Der Ring des Nibelungen: Rheingold“ (1914) by Franz Stassen

„Was, mächtig der Furcht, mein Muth mir erfand, wenn siegend es lebt – leg' es den Sinn dir dar!“

Die Götter steigen auf Bifröst herab. Wotan und Fricka schreiten der Brücke zu: Froh und Freia folgen zunächst, dann Donner.

"What, mighty with fear, my courage has invented for me, if it lives victoriously – let it reveal its meaning to you!"

The gods descend upon Bifröst. Wotan and Fricka approach the bridge: Froh and Freia follow first, then Donner.

https://youtu.be/8ynOY18aH6U
As of late, I have seen a lot of intentional divisiveness among Pagans / Heathens, etc. Much of which is purposefully done by some groups to stir up division or to corral people into their field. I'm going to address this as well as a few other narratives directly.

https://youtu.be/6bRM5FKEYIc?si=UhR1SdHp-aYM-Gr1

A similar video from The Golden One where he talks about the way to see the Interconnectedness of European Paganism, philosophies, etc.

I think such an approach is healthy, and if not, how we should practice, at least a general mindset that should be considered.

"Literally me!"
Jokes aside rather correct. These three wolves in some variation reflect most Germanic, or Celto-Germanic men, as well as some sets of Slavs.

Whether you are ending your day or just now rising. Here is some wisdom from the Lord who pours out blessings, Gautr, Óðinn.

Hávamál 58.
"He must early go forth | who fain the blood
Or the goods of another would get;
The wolf that lies idle | shall win little meat,
Or the sleeping man success."

Being a night owl this is something I struggle with.
However, I see it this way there is much to be done in the mornings or evenings, but doing so before others is important.
If one wants a modern tactical and applicable take, this can easily be viewed as taking advantage of the time you have.
Ultimately, finding the spirit and willpower to put forth effort to make success in whatever endeavor you strive towards.
Be this growing stronger, accumulating wealth, growing a community, better supporting one's family or clan, personal spiritual growth, or even hobbies.
If you take the Allfather's words here as both a command and a word of wisdom, meeting him with effort, he will, in turn, pour blessings upon said effort.

Pottery shards of the Vedic Painted Grey Ware Culture, northern India, 1200-600BC, featuring a small swastika, triskelion, and hexafoil rosette; all symbols found across the Indo-European world.

This comment on one of my posts presents an optimistic perspective on the position of Pagans and Heathens in a post-Christian world.

"Something cool about christianism displacing traidional religions is that it allowed them to crystalize and immortalize themselves. The erosion of time, the manipulation from geopolitical changes for mileniums didn't affect paganism.
Christianism took the cultural lead and, with it, all the poison of sociology and industrial revolution. Now christianity has eroded and humiliated itself so badly that it would be pretty much impossible to revive it when it dies. Even christians themselves claim that the evangelization goal is not achievable any longer for practical social reasons. They even ashamed themselves of what they turned their religion into by championing evangelization globally.
Paganism was saved from all this humilliation, an erosion of modernity.
Perhaps the gods intended this hibernation and let a self humilliating cult take the hits of the inevitable doom of time."

This is rather important towards the embracing of nautral and original ethnic / folk faiths.

Despite certain ups and downs, Shinto had a syncretic faith with Buddhism. Shinto was never and can not be syncretic or compatible with Christianity.
Buddhism could do that with most Pagan and Indo-European / folk faiths, Christianity cannot.

With Christianity and most Abrahamic faiths, it is oil and water.
Poison and Ale.
Abrahamic faiths are not compatible with any other faith by design without losing their purpose. Which is the dissolution of all other beliefs except the service and submission to Yahweh / Allah, etc.

This isn't even a dig at or insult towards Abrahamics. Any Christian, Muslim, or Jew who is telling the truth and not trying to manipulate you into conversion will admit this is this goal.

I know a lot of ex Christians with guilt or baggage as well as open-minded Christian like to hope for a Christo-Paganism of some sort.
I , too, would like to have an alliance and some solidarity with people from my own tribe / ethnicity, even if they are Christian, due to our shared culture and heritage.

But this is on a whole a pipe dream. They are vastly incompatible without heavy reverse engineering.

This is an abhorrent abomination and an affront to nature, humanity, and the divine. At this point, all AI servers that support such functions need to be shut down, and anyone who opts for such things should possibly be trialed.