Why I Favor Paganism

[MrMan]

Are you really going to preach to me about "broad brush descriptions of paganism"? How much research have you actually done into any of these mythologies or religions? The divine fire handed to man by Prometheus is the same forbidden knowledge given to mankind by Enki or the Biblical serpent of genesis. Shiva acts as the Adiyogi and taught humanity the esoteric means to achieving godhood and everlasting life. Enki, Shiva and Prometheus are all the same being.

Of course you have no evidence for these claims that these are the same spirits. There were lots of demons. "Paganism" is a broad term to describe various religions and their worship of demons. And the concept of demons, at least the concept I am talking about, may not actually align exactly with a concept in paganism. The first century Greek-speaking pagans would have been familiar with a related term to 'demons', and the word had meant something different in the classical period.

Witholding fire from man to keep him warm is different from mankind staying in a state of innocence.

[Winston]

@Pixel--Dude and @Lucas88:

Check out this good video by Aewar about why the European soul is split between Paganism and Christianity and the internal struggle within every European soul that's not an atheist. What do you think? He has some great insights. His video is called "The Two Souls of Europe".

[Lucas88]

@Pixel--Dude and @Lucas88:

Check out this good video by Aewar about why the European soul is split between Paganism and Christianity and the internal struggle within every European soul that's not an atheist. What do you think? He has some great insights. His video is called "The Two Souls of Europe".

I watched the video (indeed I've seen other content by the same author); however, to be honest @Winston, I didn't find his argument very cogent.

Aewar throughout the video tries to sell us the idea that there is an internal struggle between the Pagan and Christian spirit in every soul that isn't an atheist, but that isn't really true and probably only applies to a subset of Christians like himself who believe in the Bible yet still revere Pagan symbolism and feel a connection to the cultures of their pre-Christian ancestors. It certainly doesn't apply to non-Christians like myself who perceive the Bible and all of its characters as nothing more than an alien religion from the Judean desert. I can assure you that I don't feel any such internal struggle. No form of Abrahamic religion resides in my soul.

In fact, when I was a Christian in the early 2010s and regularly attended church and Bible study groups, I soon began to perceive the spirit of the religion as very alien to my soul. Things such as the world as fallen, a Jewish Messiah being sacrificed for humanity's sins, eternal damnation of the unsaved, apocalyptic prophecies of death and destruction, demand for unquestioning faith and dissuasion from free thought, blind fanaticism, disdain for materiality and classical virtues, rituals simulating the cannibalization of the crucified Christ's corpse, etc. all struck me as extremely bizarre and of a different frequency to my true inner nature and eventually started to fragment my psyche as though a foreign virus program had been inserted. I became increasingly more depressed, anxious and psychologically unstable until I decided the leave the religion.

No part of my soul is Christian and the religion's spirit is completely incompatible with me.

Aewar around the midway point of the video asserts -- falsely, in my opinion -- that European morality is Christian and that Christianity abolished the practice of human sacrifice with its introduction of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus -- a sacrifice to end all other sacrifices.

I find this assertion problematic for two reasons:

1. Human sacrifice was already extremely rare among civilized nations by that time whether it be Rome, Persia, India or China. A strong cultural disapproval of earlier traditions of that sort seems to have been a characteristic of the Axial Age. Rome banned human sacrifice by senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although the practice had long fallen out of custom and was almost universally viewed as uncivilized. Even earlier, religious movements in India from around 800 BCE strongly developed the concept of Ahimsa and began to look down on all forms of blood sacrifice. The more civilized "Pagans" were already moving away from such cruel and immoral traditions.

2. Christianity itself is a covert cult of human sacrifice with the crucifixion of the suffering Messiah for the sins of humanity -- now reenacted merely in symbolic form with the host and the wine representing the body and blood of Christ. Christians will argue that Jesus was a sacrifice to end all other sacrifices and that Christianity therefore abolished sacrifice, but this argument doesn't take away from the fact that the biblical religion itself has always required blood sacrifice going back all the way to the earliest books of the Old Testament.

Finally, Aewar concludes that Europeans need to discover a new form of religion that harmoniously blends Christianity and the ancestral Pagan spirit. But this is a red herring. Why do we Europeans even need the alien religion in the first place? It's possible that we could adopt a purely "Aryan" or even a philosophical religion that promotes virtue, elevation of the soul and communion with the Divine maybe along the lines of some form of Hermeticism, all without any Jewdeo-Christian components. I think that we Europeans can do way better than a bizarre and grotesque Semitic sacrifice cult. Lol!