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I come from a Catholic background myself and acknowledge our important debt to the Catholic Church. It was Catholicism which inspired my Spanish ancestors with La Reconquista. But as for defense against Islam, there were many Germanic Pagans who fought alongside Charles Martel at Tours in 732, because they were fighting for a common cause. I think we should do the same now, which is why I don't like this attitude of some Christians who go out of their way to denigrate our pagan ancestors. I don't know about your Germanic people, but mine were Christianized by force after they were conquered by the Franks. Not as bloody as what happen to the Sachsen, but still it was imposed.
The main thing is that Christianity was pacifist and only became imbued with this warrior, defensive spirit once it adopted those values from our pagan ancestors. Just like at Tours, it was not Christianity but the overriding values and spirit of our ancestors that defend their lands. They made Christianity what it became because they re-molded it in their image. So inherently, I don't ascribe this to Christianity but to our ancestors who just happened to be Christians and made it work for them. Do you think they wouldn't have fought just as ardently if not more so against Islamization if they remained Pagans?
Unfortunately, this was already happening long before some people began rediscovering Paganism, and it happened because Christianity itself changed. It began changing its laws against usury and Freemasonry, for example. It wasn't Paganism but the spread of irreligion, the rule of bankers and secret societies, and Cultural Marxism that changed our societies for the worse. And I do see a place for Traditionalist/Sedavacantist Catholics in the revival, for if I didn't recognize it I wouldn't be influenced by some Catholic thinkers like Otto Strasser and Ernst Junger. But I see it alongside Volkisch Heathens, each one contributing to our common cause.
I honestly think he would've, because foremost he was a patriot. He worked alongside Evangelisch and also secular/non-religious opposition figures, because the common cause was for Deutschland that all were working for. His incredible sacrifice, honor and heroism was part of the Germanic ethos, long before our people were Christianized. Unfortunately, people like Himmler with their co-opting and abuse of ancient Germanic symbols have given it a bad name, although the freak Himmler and others were nothing but confused, power-hungry, opportunists who weren't true Pagans. The Gestapo cracked down on many Germanic pagan groups. For example, look at the regime's persecution of Ludwig Fahrenkrog (who refused to say "Heil Hitler") and the Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft. Although I don't agree with all their writings, also look at how the regime banned the writings of List and Lanz von Liebenfels after the Anschluss.
First, I also don't believe in the myth of a "dark" ages. I think our ancient and medieval ancestors were far more advanced than the modern. Just because I mentioned some about their persecution of Pagans doesn't mean I accept the modernist myth that somehow they brought a "dark age" to Europe. Quite the contrary, there was a great continued flowering of culture and achievements throughout this period, as our ancestors continued their interests despite their new religion. I also decry the French Revolution. It brought many of our current evils and to me it exhibited a Judeo-Masonic spirit.
Second, most of the sources I've read - and certainly the most credible ones, by actual Germanic Pagans - mention how homosexuality and other decadence was opposed among our Germanic ancestors. There are accounts in some sagas of them being banished or dispatched to the bogs, for example. You're right about women warriors, but it was nearly as common as it was among the Celtic peoples. It certainly wasn't the most common among the Germanic warriors, who were almost entirely men. There were some sacrifices but they weren't nearly as prevalent as later Christian sources allege; they should be viewed more in the same light as modern punishments and penalties.
Oh I definitely see where you're coming from. That's why I look at their individual qualities, being innately German, and not because they happened to be Christians or anything. This tendency to ascribe all good qualities of our folk to Christianity generally or Catholicism particularly, is what I find problematic, because it sells short on what is innately German. Our ancestors simply carried on their traditions, making Christianity work for them and giving an outer Christian veneer for what already were values among our volk. Personally, I honor all my recent ancestors who were nothing but Catholics (and my one Evangelisch great-grandfather), without thinking ill of any of them. I just know the process by which my ancestors (and most likely yours too) were Christianized to begin with.
The unity would have happened naturally among our volk, regardless of Christianity. But looked at how much damage Christianity did to Germany during the fratricidal Thirty Years War, when Germans were divided between Catholics and Evangelisch, families torn apart merely because of slight doctrinal differences. Even before Arminius, there were many occasions of different Germanic tribes uniting and banding together against the Roman invaders. Ironically though, it was Christianity that gave the Franks the excuse they needed to align with the Romans against other Germanic tribes who remained "Pagan". So certainly they weren't concerned with Germanic unity.
I agree about Prussia, but I also remember the dark side of Prussia, for example my older ancestors who still didn't like Bismarck due to the Kulturkampf. There was this centralizing tendency that made power invested in Berlin and away from the distinct regions, although this was mostly with the Weimar Republic onwards. I endorse more federalism, especially now with Merkel's migrant and all the other PC policies. I recommend what Otto Strasser wrote about the "de-Prussianisation" of Germany. I especially think our Southern and Western (including your Rhineland) regions would do much better without the central control from Berlin.
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