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 No.3654

How do you respond to this? For surely you will struggle. Surely you are forced to accept the fact that the Christians destroyed your religion, desecrated your temples, ravaged your sacred graves, slaughtered your druids, usurped your festivals, and converted or killed all of your follows. The entire institution of the old religion was slaughtered, and remained slaughtered for a thousand years.

Only now, as a matter of what is purely a historical interest or romanticism, do you look at it again. The scholars look at it to understand it: to codify an ancient society and their beliefs.

But what you have is romanticism.

You do not have the legitimacy to practice this religion. You act like you are following a religion of your ancestors, but you are really just pretending that you are them, following what you think were their beliefs, and overall amounting to disrespecting them.

This is the criticism levied upon you. This everyone knows, and for this reason everyone denounces you as a roleplayer.

How therefore do you respond to these claims? How can you expect us to take you seriously when you lack this legitimacy?

We sympathize with the ancient faith, and we have a lot in common with you, but where we differ is that we recognize it's dead, and you're trying to keep it alive in a way we consider almost shameful.

You are identical to neo-nazis.

What you believe is just considered less offensive.

 No.3655

>christianity is destroyed
>some guy finds a bible
>converts to christianity (because he's a kike worshipping faggot)
>gets told he doesn't have the legitimacy to worship christianty
>gets told he's just a historical romanticist
>gets told he's a weed smoking hippy who doesn't want to follow pagan values
just as valid an arguement as yours. :^)

 No.3657

>>3655
Not OP but if that scenario were to play out then Christianity would indeed become dead - without apostolic succession all we'd be left with is something that perhaps outwardly resembles our religion, but it would never be more than a mere shadow.

 No.3658

>>3657
Actually it would just be neo protestantism

 No.3663

>>3657
great to know Catholics value their religion this much

as if I needed to be reminded why I abandoned it. one more reason for me to celebrate being excommunicated

 No.3664

>How do you respond to this?

Simply asking the accuser to explain the basis of this charge has never failed me. It is a charge that grossly misunderstands heathenry, and typically ends with the revelation that the accuser has no mental concept of spirituality other than a limited understanding of one or perhaps two christian franchise organizations.

If you are still here, please note that you will need to take this to the designated containment thread if you wish to proceed.

 No.3671

>>3654

I have a greater respect for you as a poster after seeing you posted this on /pol/ and here.

The formatting here is terrible.

 No.3673

This is just dump, it's not about following some random religious tenants.

It's about identity, Paganism helps make it clear that we are not part of the desert people, nor do we subscribe to their traditions.

 No.3674

>X religion committed genocide against Y religion
>therefor X religion is more valid as a moral guide than Y religion

just think about that one for a second

 No.3676

>>3654
You're the same guy from the /pol/ thread that was a massive flame war, you avatarfag.

We don't have to know all the answers, we can still revere the gods, because unlike Christianity, we actually believe in things that aren't completely based in ritual and churches, it doesn't even matter that the rituals and practices were lost.

 No.3698

>muh ancestors
>muh "traditional values"
fucking snowniggers man what a waste of whiteskin

 No.3712

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>>3673
>>3676
These are the only two posts with anything remotely worthwhile saying to me.

What I am looking for from you is a comprehensive defense against this popular charge against you. And to plug your ears and say that there is no such charge and that it has no validity only weakens your position; how much stronger would you be if you could convince us that somehow your religion is legitimate, that it is more than just romantic roleplaying?

It is not out of hatred I'm saying this by any means. Imagine how exciting it is for me to learn that there exist people out there who are motivated to resurrect the religious practices of my ancestors.

However I'm also forced to accept the fact that, indeed, my ancestor's religion was destroyed by Christians some hundreds of years before my earliest known ancestor was alive. All of my known ancestors have been Christians.

I most then view Asatru as a romantic reconstruction. Something akin to if we tried to rebuild Ancient Rome in Nebraska.

Basically, I would ask myself, what is the net personal goal that Asatru tries to bring forth? And I will answer, a certain racial/ancestral consciousness where folk are bound together and aware of their traditions, passionate about their freedom, and at one with nature.

But am I able to do all of those things without Asatru?

Yes.

Then what need is there to play with the flimsy idea of false-worshiping Zeus, Mars, or Loki?

Romanticism.

 No.3714

>>3712
>All of my known ancestors have been Christians
True enough, but the bloodlines go back quite far, further then your known Christian ancestors.

>But am I able to do all of those things without Asatru?

>Yes.
You are, I suppose. But for some, a religious void still requires filling. Can't blame them for that, its just human nature it seems.

Beliefs change with time regardless of what aspects are destroyed. If you compared the Christianity that initially became popular in Rome versus modern day Protestanism you'd almost be able to call them roleplayers. The beliefs aren't going to be exact, but we connect with the ideas of our Religion, we find ourselves believing in the Gods. Believing in Deities was never really about logic, it was always more of an emotional pursuit. People only really seek out the logical side of things if they feel threatened by the tangible, scientific nature of the modern day.

I probably didn't answer squat, but whatever.

 No.3719

After over 1000 years, they only holidays the peoples of Europe celebrate are the ones with Pagan roots, the ones with Pagan tradition. People stopped giving a shit about actual Christian holidays quite some time ago.

Why is that? Because paganism is more than just a Religion. It's way to view life, to view destiny and to view nature. It's something very human, and thus always was within us. Not dead, just covered beyond recognition by loads of Christian crap.

The people on this board are not roleplaying a dead Religion, they are uncovering a buried Identity. And I am very grateful for that, being relatively new to this.

I agree though. A lot of the ancient Religion is unfortunately lost, which is sad in my opinion. But then again, would modern Paganism look exactly like the ancient one, if the massive conversions and genocides never had happened? I highly doubt it. There is always some change in this world, which is also a reason why we are here right now.

After over 1000 years, only the strongest aspects of Asatru survived, which is the perfect foundation to build answers to the problems of modernity upon.

So, no, it's not roleplaying.

 No.3723

>>3712
>what is theology

no religion can truly die, your whole argument is based on that incorrect premise

now, if you say we are trying to revive dead traditions… well, that's different

 No.3726

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>>3712
>worshiping

Like I said, you people always manage to let it slip that you have no clue at all what is going on in heathenry. Of course it's a reconstruction, you dolt. We are qualified to execute that reconstruction because we are heirs to the legacy of the people who came before us.

Like Anon notes in >>3719 this is stuff that is intrinsic to the European soul. For example, Christmas may ostensibly be about the birth of the Jewish social justice god, but European polytheism is quite literally the reason for the season of that holiday. Likewise the festival celebrating the birth of that god is still named after a Germanic goddess. In Spain they carry their idols through the streets just as a thousand years ago, with only a wink and a nod that they're "saints". Vetrnætr? Samhain? Uh, err, yeah that's just "Halloween"! All Saints' Day is tomorrow, Goy! Yeah, that's it!

Everywhere you look, all over the world, these Christian holidays are just the thinnest veneer over prechristian local customs. And the veneer is peeling away, because there's no real, lasting fulfillment in worshiping the Jewish war god and his SJW kid. It's foreign. It's alien. And everything that was fun about it was just appropriated from our ancestral faiths in the first place.

But just as I said, you simply have an incredibly limited conception of spirituality. You insist on gods with these supernatural traits. You insist on texts with these specific pedigrees and call it "scripture", or to you it's not a text. You insist on rituals with these specific parameters and call it "worship", or its not religion. You insist on standardization and uniformity and all of this systematized kosher crap that literally nobody cares about outside of Semitic monotheism. You're not really even ready to talk about the stuff until you take a few steps back and look at the bigger picture of human faith and culture.

And so, like I said you would, you unravel your own charge against this movement. All on your own.

Sage until you have an original thought.

 No.3727

>>3726
>Likewise the festival celebrating the birth of that god is still named after a Germanic goddess.

Birth, rebirth, whatever it was. The ancient European fertility festival drowns out everything else about Eostre.

 No.3728

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>>3726
I think the key to worship is fun and a very simple messsage.

That may sound cheap but it's why Christmas and Holloween have lasted so long.

What we need is to re-orginize Holloween and Christmas with a simple message and a fun time.

Same goes for other worship. Something I would want to go to. Because I don't want to hang out and "do ritual" with a bunch of people I don't know. Christian churched offered something: Free food, a lesson for the illiterate, forgiveness and threats of doom, singing (I hate singing), as well as meeting and greeting like minded people or future compaignions.

That's what we need. Also stop using "pagan". It's a Christfag word for "goy".

 No.3733

>>3728
That feel when not manly enough for Lagertha gf.

 No.3742

>>3728
Origin of PAGAN
Middle English, from Late Latin paganus, from Latin, civilian, country dweller, from pagus country district; akin to Latin pangere to fix

I dont know about you, you're free to use wtv you want but I won't stop using it

 No.3758

>>3742

And "goy" literally means "nation".

However, we all know that it no longer means that. It's a catch-all for people considered "other", and often has a connotation of barbarism or incorrect religious practice. "Pagan" means more-or-less the same thing.

The etymological fallacy is not only wrong; it also reveals a very Semitic mindset: that there is an eternal truth written in stone and nothing can change it. Words change. Everything changes.

 No.3761

>>3758
great, feel free to change all your words every time someone you don't like takes possession of them instead retaking their true meaning

 No.3763

>>3761
This. It is extremely weak to give up words, just because some group uses them in a demeaning way. Even worse if it's a word you use to describe yourself with.

 No.3767

Going to agree with >>3728 >>3758 here

>>3742
>>3761
>>3763

The thing is, whoever referred to themselves as pagan? Running off the Latin origin, did rural Christian Englishmen say "Ah yes, I'm pagan and proud."?

It's a word which came up in English to describe people and practices indigenous to Europe which hadn't yet fallen before the Christian bulldozer. You're not taking anything back if you never had it to begin with.

And I believe that the contemporary Wicca types have made a far larger impact on the popular conscious when it comes to imagining what type of person identifies as pagan.

 No.3770

As someone who is probably a christian or atheist i doubt you have spent very long looking into it. This would be like saying that you cannot be Christians anymore because you lost 30% of the bible, while most of the important stuff is still there. Thats in the case of Asatru anyway, Slavic Paganism and Baltic are preserved very well as are roman and greek. Celtic is the only one that suffered a really significant blow and the majority of Celts have Germanic blood also, so they can practice the germanic faith.

 No.4479

>>3728
>chains in her hair
>that horrible stitching on clothes
>metal studs over everything
Man that show sucks when it comes to the clothes/costumes

 No.4481

>>3728
why does she have chains in her hair?

 No.4485

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>You are identical to neo-nazis.

A BLOO BLOO

Fuck off back to tumblreddit and don't come back, would ya?

 No.4488

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Some are just role playing.

Those who still reside in large cities and are more for the 3rd Reich than any true return to Norse ways.

But there are some who actually bother to move away from this and return to a life more akin to theirs, who actually research into their various rituals and try to make themselves into more hardened warriors akin to what they were while still being closer to their Norse lands.

The ones who roleplay and still live in inner cities, especially in central Europe or south eastern USA are more prone to be mislead by those who only wish to use norse paganism as some sort of anti-jewish and anti-christian triumphant political movement/wicked heathan enemy so as to help either undo what they see as the Jewish Demiurge (something that is slightly more Luciferian than Norse) or to trigger the Jewish Isaiah and finally see their savior who will unite everyone against those mean Norse and convert all those Jews who really only were poor mislead souls in need of JAYSUS CHRAAST.

Either way, if you are in a more modern city in an area that the Talmudists have more control over either through the state or the relgion, like central Europe or south east USA, you are going to get easily infiltrated and coopted and you aren't going to be as authentic of an olden times pagan. At the very least, research into their older ways and trust less people who wrote about them both after the fall of the 3rd reich and after 1913 and the massive Talmudic banker take over, and if you're going to be in a large city or near one, make sure it doesn't have too much Jewish/Luciferian influences like say Atlanta or San Francisco or New York or Hollywood.

I'd advise all other pagan movements and/or neo-spiritualists (those who do not reject all spirits who are not of the Jewish god or Devil as outright demons) to also avoid said cities and movements, as they are part of the great modern Lucifer and Adonay coopt of nearly every movement since 2001, where Lucifer is your local Crowlean Master "Mason" (they're in the south too) who probably is speaking with various helish/hadesish spirits, and Adonay is some local Bnai Brither 33rd degree Jewish ascended master playing an act.

 No.4506

>>4488
>Either way, if you are in a more modern city in an area that the Talmudists have more control over either through the state or the relgion, like central Europe or south east USA, you are going to get easily infiltrated and coopted and you aren't going to be as authentic of an olden times pagan.

Hmm… I guess I can live with that, considering that I am not an "olden times pagan", and I need reliable access to a proper airport for my job.

 No.4554

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>>3654

>Legitimacy


So, I guess what you're saying is that we need to wipe Christfags completely out of existence and then say everything to anyone that becomes interested in said religion that you just said?

Because I'm down for that.

And I would already fight you for your "neo-nazi" bullshit, so why don't you step on out of here, anti-white?

White people are not pretending to be White. Christfags are PRETENDING to be Jews.

>Put that in your PC pipe and smoke it, kike lover.

 No.4555

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>>3728

The Christfags changed the meaning of the word through misuse. Originally the Pagani were survivors of White genocide in ancient Rome.

>tfw learned that from Odinia.



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