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<blockquote data-quote="Eigceartaigh" data-source="post: 1342579" data-attributes="member: 17331">ArWhat I could never understand is how pagans try to worship a false nostalgic past that never existed. In placing this supposed idealistic past on an altar, they are instead worshiping the dead, and the impossible. No one can faithfully return to a prechristian European pagan religion without running into a series of contradictions.&gt;If widespread belief in European paganism can preserve Europe&#039;s racial integrity, why then have established pagan groups denounced racial profiling in who they permit to join their faith. As Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, chief of the Ásatrú Association in Iceland said;&quot;The racist interpretation of heathenry is a total perversion of the original mythology, which is a wonderful blueprint for multiculturalism and diversity: The gods are of mixed races. We even have a cross dressing god.&quot;&gt;If this indicative of a small portion of pagans, and/or true paganism is racially conscious and not degenerate, why then is this an invalid excuse for Christendom as a whole?&gt;If our knowledge of pagan rituals is limited, and what we do know was mainly recorded by Christian monks, how could we not study the history of paganism and its proper rituals without learning of it from a supposed biased source?&gt;If a return to paganism is the solution for the degeneracy upon Europe and the western world, why was Europe fine for centuries before the modern era when Christianity was the dominant faith of European societies? Why is it only recently when the faith has&nbsp; started to drop in those that follow it, that we see this general rise in acceptance of sin?&gt;If Christianity is some sense partial to Judaism, then how do we explain the centuries of anti Jewish sentiment within the christian world before the modern era?This isn&#039;t to say that there is no use in studying the pagan religions of prechristian Europe, but that using them as a replacement for Europe&#039;s traditional faith as a cure to the uptick in sin as of late, is foolish at best.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eigceartaigh, post: 1342579, member: 17331"] Ar What I could never understand is how pagans try to worship a false nostalgic past that never existed. In placing this supposed idealistic past on an altar, they are instead worshiping the dead, and the impossible. No one can faithfully return to a prechristian European pagan religion without running into a series of contradictions. >If widespread belief in European paganism can preserve Europe's racial integrity, why then have established pagan groups denounced racial profiling in who they permit to join their faith. As Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, chief of the Ásatrú Association in Iceland said; "The racist interpretation of heathenry is a total perversion of the original mythology, which is a wonderful blueprint for multiculturalism and diversity: The gods are of mixed races. We even have a cross dressing god." >If this indicative of a small portion of pagans, and/or true paganism is racially conscious and not degenerate, why then is this an invalid excuse for Christendom as a whole? >If our knowledge of pagan rituals is limited, and what we do know was mainly recorded by Christian monks, how could we not study the history of paganism and its proper rituals without learning of it from a supposed biased source? >If a return to paganism is the solution for the degeneracy upon Europe and the western world, why was Europe fine for centuries before the modern era when Christianity was the dominant faith of European societies? Why is it only recently when the faith has started to drop in those that follow it, that we see this general rise in acceptance of sin? >If Christianity is some sense partial to Judaism, then how do we explain the centuries of anti Jewish sentiment within the christian world before the modern era? This isn't to say that there is no use in studying the pagan religions of prechristian Europe, but that using them as a replacement for Europe's traditional faith as a cure to the uptick in sin as of late, is foolish at best. [/QUOTE]

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