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Which is better, Catholicism or Islam?
neither
they are both shit
Why?
Kim Jong il is the only God
they both preach something that doesn't exisit and teach to be violent to certain groups of people that didn't do anything to harm them
So?
thats not good in my book
Okay Mr. Fragile.
tripple cucked
Absolutely disgusting
d-deus vult
@mysticdyingwhale u like the children?
@Deleted User Notice how it says 'Crusade Battles' not 'Christian Conquest Battles', which would be more equal, including Teutonic battles and the Reconquesta for example. Regardless, if you want to use that bias image to show how 'innocent' Christians are, it just looks like Europe took it up the arse for 100s of years. This propaganda does you a disservice, and shows that no future Crusade is likely because Europe is full of cucks who don't defend themselves. It should encourage Muslims, if anything.
>muh deus vult
Meanwhile the pagan revivalist movements just sort of sit around trying their damndest to be a thing.
Unless you're Slavic pagan revivalists. Then you harrass the shit out of, or attack Christians for not being Slav enough.
Interestingly on that front I've had some Russians complain to me about the Rodnovers that they're ebil neo-fascists.
Modern paganism seems like an invented tradition. It is hard to see any practical links to the past. It is quite cynical, or even delusional, to ignore this disconnection. In a way, paganism has been lost.
tbh the only neo-paganism I respect is Romuva, if because the Romuva faith was damn impossible to kill off, and its rediscovery at least comes with a certain admission that it's something beyond Lithuania. Rodnover is sorta, "lol slavs only" and Heathenism is having an internal dispute over its associations with Nazi symbology.
That's really sad. Political correctness still makes trouble in Russia. I don't see many Hindus or Buddhists having debates about their uses of Swastika,
In some places there are, but I can't say for certain if that's groups within those communities questioning it or people from the outside getting uppity.
Romuva is a rare example of having a continued tradition with the past. But like all paganism, it is an ethnic religion. It is a corruption to export it to anyone or 'sell' it like a spiritual commodity.
Well, you could also certainly argue that Romuva - like Heathenism and Rodnovery - is a localization of European paganism. On principle as I've read and heard it Paganism in the passed recognized Gods as having domain over certain local areas. So the pantheon wasn't supposed to be ethnically centered or even culturally, but geographically. All the same, many of the figured in each regional pantheon have their counterparts across the way so it's not hard to simply make an offering to a god of something but recognize him, her, or it by a different name.
For a disgusting Anglo like myself, there is no salvation. We have been severed from out past and it has been lost to time. Queue nihilism.
The matter really changes under Monotheism where The God in the faith is the supreme god over all else, so it becomes much more universal than Zeus or Thor.
Monotheism is a relatively recent idea. You're 100% correct about gods being geographic first.
Familites and houses also had lesser patron gods.
tfw the Japanese literally have a god for every rock and mushroom ever.
The God of Israel is geographic, for example. At one point is become henotheism. And then with Christianity become truly monotheistic (debatable with the Trinity though) as the universal God for jew and gentil.e
Eastern religions are crazy.
I like the idea that Catholicism is basically Paganism in denial.
I like Eastern religion, they're fun.
tfw Lao Tzu was basically a proto-Anarchist.
When I first read the I-ching it broke my brain.
Aye.
The version I picked up too had a part added by the translator where he wrote his own story to reorganize his thoughts on Taosim and set them to a loose narrative.
I was taught Taoism but an actual Chinese Taoist, and every time I try to explain it using reason and logic, he said I was wrong and I didn't understand. Western indoctrination is strong.
You have to forget everything you know.