Why I'm a Pagan

[Jamt]

Why I'm a Pagan

By Stephen McNallen 25 March 2010.

"I have worn the symbol of Thor's hammer around my neck since 1970. For the first couple of decades, it provoked comments at the rate of perhaps one every five years. The pace doubled in the years that followed, but the curve continues upward. In the last week, two different young people greeted me with "Nice hammer!" -- and while neither belonged to any organization as such, a short conversation informed me that both had friends around them who recognized the symbol and felt an affinity with it.

The springtime of the North is yet to come."

The rest at Alternative Right, http://www.alternativeright.com/main...y-i-m-a-pagan/

[Electronic God-Man]

Why I'm a Pagan?

*Looks at Psychonaut*

[Hrimskegg]

It's well written, I expect nothing less from McNallen.

[Psychonaut]

Why I'm a Pagan?

*Looks at Psychonaut*

Now that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in my nethers.

[John in Denver]

There are only two kinds of religions in the world. One kind, like Christianity, Islam, or Scientology, lacks any roots in blood or soil. Consequently, these religions claim the allegiance of all the human race. The very word "catholic" means "universal." You can be Chinese or Nigerian or anything under the sun and be a full-fledged member of any of these faiths.

I'm not going to argue with him there, he's clearly stating the facts. The reason i listed Pagan-Roman Catholic on my entry is to mark the distinction that i have not forgotten that religions must be blood-based and in accordance with natures laws in order to be legitimate, unfortunately i have no alternative at the present time.

[Electronic God-Man]

I'm not going to argue with him there, he's clearly stating the facts. The reason i listed Pagan-Roman Catholic on my entry is to mark the distinction that i have not forgotten that religions must be blood-based and in accordance with natures laws in order to be legitimate, unfortunately i have no alternative at the present time.

Catholicism can never be ethnically based. That doesn't make a bit of sense.

The alternative is to not be Catholic.

[Beorn]

I'm not going to argue with him there, he's clearly stating the facts. The reason i listed Pagan-Roman Catholic on my entry is to mark the distinction that i have not forgotten that religions must be blood-based and in accordance with natures laws in order to be legitimate, unfortunately i have no alternative at the present time.

I'm very lazy in defining my religion but it is going along your lines. I have often just put Pagan down or Christian down, and not bothered to clarify what I am, but Pagan - Christianity makes perfect sense to me.

I don't think religions must be aligned by blood similarities, but certainly religious devotions must retain a sense of similarity to ethnicity.

I have had the pleasure of witnessing many different events within the Christian faith in different parts of these Isles, and have always come away with the distinct impression that each one had successfully stamped their own ethnicity into their reverence towards Christ.

[John in Denver]

Catholicism can never be ethnically based. That doesn't make a bit of sense.

The alternative is to not be Catholic.

Not true. Saint Patrick's Cathedral was/is for the Irish. Before WW2 i can only imagine it was only for the Irish, and they had many other churches. The Italians had their own parishes and churches as well, so the Catholic church was at one time ethnically based.

Don't get me wrong, my eyes are wide open to the churches corruption and i'm not talking about their obvious and public perversions. The abdication of natural law is a grave and dangerous mistake, that brings eventual death to every nation that accepts it.

I roll my eyes up the few times that i have recently attended mass at the Vatican backed 501(c) scam church.I'm not there because "I'm a believer" but because I'm hoping to reconnect with the few of my kin who still attend either regularly or occasionally, the way i see it is that the church is weak and the doors are wide open...waiting to be seized. I have recently came to the conclusion that a religion is necessary for a culture to exist.

The church has the buildings and the structure set in place, why not infiltrate her and return her to her natural, organic, Pagan roots?

[SwordoftheVistula]

Good points guys-kinda funny how polytheists foam at the mouth and refuse to consider the Xtian god part of it.

I can understand the Xtians because of 'no other gods before me' but not the other way around

[Electronic God-Man]

There are regional/ethnic variants of Christianity (I can immediately see the differences between Irish Catholicism and Italian Catholicism) but Christianity/Catholicism in itself can never be of a sort that is bound to kinship. It's a universal religion.