Message from @Mr. Nessel
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It's not like some pagan religion will suddenly give up on their beliefs and a adopt Christianity out of nowhere, and certainly the reasons you listed above are part of it.
It's not an inevitable process like Marx claimed was true for Communism or Nick Land's Hyper-racist Gigaccelerationist Techo-dystopian Anarcho-Archist Capitalist Helladise.
It's just that the seeds are there- they just need to be nurtured by the Church to bloom into truly enlightened knowledge.
I frankly want to know why pagans believe what they believe. On an intellectual level, what is so appealing?
it's like Nietzsche++
you get ammorality plus demons to give you power and no eternal punishment for doing it
That or it's vitalism like Fr. Seraphim Rose suggested
That people want something to be apart of that feels alive and that liberal secularism and staid/pozzed Protestantism doesn't provide it.
yeah
The problem is that many pagans don't reason there paganism to its logical conclusions. It's usualy a means to justify an end and not an end in itself as any religion should be.
It also doesn't help that paganism secretly helps perpetuate the Promethean Man meme. Which Nietzsche and Evola helped perpetuate unwittingly.
promethean man meme? is that like whig history
Evola's biggest problem is his ego and imo it gets to often in the way of truth
Promethean Man is the term that one based Senator used for the idea of the sovereign individual
Anyway like someone said earlier, paganism is often used as a means to justify extreem tribalism/racialism
hawley?
First of all disagreeing about the nature of god and the emergence of the universe with christians is a good reason to look at alternate systems of belief. People who want to be amoral become wiccans or stay atheists etc.
Then there's the idea of Dharma which had a predecessor in the old IE religion which I very much like and identify with my views of good as an intangible ideal to strive for (which I had since my agnostic phase)
It's not so much about larping in Marvel costumes or necessarily worshipping any god in particular but first an foremost being in line with that intangible good to the best of my ability
Respecting gods, flawed as they are, I think is a good thing but not necessary for it
Anyway I don't like the term pagan
Wiccans are not in the same category as someone who is trying to be a good person
I have to say that paganism on the internet is in a bad state because of bad apples like Varg
Regarding the racial aspect, yes it factors into it and it should if you're not someone who thinks in terms of universal salvation and whatnot
@Skellington I think that's the guy.
@Korin Dickman anyways what are your thoughts
Wiccans are definitely a joke. They are about on the level of artificiality as Scientology if you look into the origins of that movement.
>There were witch cults all over Europe that believed these obviously new age hippy things
>No I don't have any really proof, stop asking.
>Avada cadava
Pagans at least have something to work from.
Well, it depends on the nature of power
It's becoming readily apparent that secularism alone cannot support the complex and cancerous network of "rights" that Power creates contingently to justify their actions.
Modern atheists and progressives represent actually what preceded Indo_European paganism
The old matriarchal fertility cults of early European farmers
So BAP claims
If we're turning back to that it's only a question of time old paganism will supplant it too which is highly hierarchical, masculine and idealistic as far as we can tell or another potent meme will do the job
Maybe islam idk
I could see muslims taking over countries and shitlibs converting en masse to avoid paying Jizya
I was just reading another conversation on this server where they theorized that Islam is just as succeptible to being absorbed into the ideological mold that is secular liberalism
I don't actually think so. As German I've seen secularized muslims
Secularized as in tainted by liberalism
First gen guestworkers were pretty ok, behaved well etc.
2nd gen and onwards it only goes downhill
They never really drop islam, jsut violate its principles
Which also leads some of them to want to repent in a typically islamic way
Either they become salafists and do nothing or they cause issues