So why bother anymore? Is that all you know? I feel sorry for you then

It will betray you as it betrayed me

I am Romanian, with ancestors who were beheaded for their faith, with ancestors who proved super-human resistance to gruesome tortures, for days, weeks, months on end, rather than abandon their faith.

Yes, I understand

Why make all that sacrifice all in vain?

Why make it all for nothing?

I'm not asking for you to abandon your faith

I am just asking that you ask questions

Voievod Stefan the Great defended Moldova against 120.000 turks, the second largest army of the Ottoman Empire, he had only 40.000 men. Materially inferior, our host fasted before battle and prayed for victory, which God did give them, saving Europe from the muslim plague.

I know these things, they strengthen me.

I am not an enemy of Christ, since in the same way he defends my people from evil He defends all innocents

But whether I need Him or not, He will do what He wills

He knows I am not evil

He knows my heart is in the right place

And it wasn't for nothing, to answer your question, since my skin felt goosebumps when I've read about their sacrifice. Knowing what they did emboldens me, fanaticizes me, hardens my resolve in pursuit of victory or death

Amen

Fight to make yourself pure brother, fight to make our people worthy of glory and honor

I will fight with the name Odin/Wotan on my lips as you fight with the name of the blessed virgin or Christ

But we fight for the same goal

@PolXnihil Have you read up on Esoteric Hitlerism at all?

I will, my point is that faith is not an empty concept. Legionaries used to invoke the souls of the dead, of those whose blood mixed with our soil in defense of Fatherland and concluded that victory is achieved by attracting these unseen forces to your side.

@(H) Sterie Ciumetti Haha! That is far from a Christian idea brother

But I am not mocking you brother

Just giving you better insight into words that you say without thinking

@dd✳555 Yes

Good.

there are differences between the west and the east, invoking the souls of the dead might seem pagan to some Christians, but it only sounds like that. When you say a prayer to a deceased relative it is calling on their soul as well.

For you, a foreigner, that concept is anathema to a lot of christians in my area. Many would recoil in horror if you said that in their presence, and probably get angry with you lol

Wew

It makes more sense to me, a Heathen, than any of those blockheads

I have noticed something here too...I went to a Baptist church once, and people seem to be on auto-pilot there, no critical thinking just blindly following the pastor, no idea on the depth of spiritual warfare that is going on in the world but happily singing about smiling Jesus

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If there's one thing I don't like it's this auto-pilot mentality, church is sleeping and men are on auto-pilot

Yeah, people don't like to use warrior Jesus or conqueror Jesus anymore, it's always daydreaming Jesus or benevolent rocker Jesus

It's reflected in the shape your religion is in really

Oblivious

@PolXnihil You've nailed it. That's why people are turning to warrior-like figures like Odin. There needs be masculine, heroic sentiments that have been stripped away from modern Christianity. It's mostly the penal substitution theory

While in the east there is still Christus Victor theory, of a conqueror over hell, a vanquisher of evil, warrior Jesus

Revisiting the Satan/Wotan dichotomy again for a moment, I have to stress that it isn't always just a need for us western men to want a heroic figure to follow, it is also an intuitive thing, a natural thing. Jesus/Abraham/Moses/Joshua is and always will be a foreign concept a foreign mythos

It didn't start with us, and shouldn't end with us, at least not to me

I loved a video on Youtube I saw once about becoming a Heathen, and one of my favorite parts was his statement about meeting your ancestral Gods is like coming home. Hearing something/someone that you were always meant to understand on a deep level