A Heathen nation?

[Hess]

For better or for worse, Christianity has become intertwined with Europe to the point where heathenry has become outdated in the larger scheme of things.

[Nameless Son]

For better or for worse, Christianity has become intertwined with Europe to the point where heathenry has become outdated in the larger scheme of things.

This indeed is a very interesting thought. What place each has in the entwinement remains the real question. Has in some cases a Christian face merely been put over old heathen tradition?

I hear this a lot: we cannot just wake up one day and choose to be like our heathen ancestors. They had such a completely different culture, and it is now buried deep in time. Any (or most, depending on who you are talking to) attempt to see the world as they did is led astray by how we have been brought up to see the world - Christianized and modernized.

But this surely begs the question. How, then, on earth, were our heathen ancestors made to see through Christian eyes? Surely they would have been led astray by their heathen world view.

What this can only mean is that we ride a current of shifting cultural perspective, and are at no moment somewhere wholly new, yet nor does it appear we are ever quite in the same place as just before (the last ebb or flow, say).

[Johnston]

For better or for worse, Christianity has become intertwined with Europe to the point where heathenry has become outdated in the larger scheme of things.

Christianity is just another stage in Heathenry.

This indeed is a very interesting thought. What place each has in the entwinement remains the real question. Has in some cases a Christian face merely been put over old heathen tradition?

I hear this a lot: we cannot just wake up one day and choose to be like our heathen ancestors. They had such a completely different culture, and it is now buried deep in time. Any (or most, depending on who you are talking to) attempt to see the world as they did is led astray by how we have been brought up to see the world - Christianized and modernized.

But this surely begs the question. How, then, on earth, were our heathen ancestors made to see through Christian eyes? Surely they would have been led astray by their heathen world view.

What this can only mean is that we ride a current of shifting cultural perspective, and are at no moment somewhere wholly new, yet nor does it appear we are ever quite in the same place as just before (the last ebb or flow, say).

If Israel can revert to a pre-Christian society, then so can Europe. On the other hand, I would prefer some kind of dualism between innate local Heathen and Christian culture. For instance, Romance people have Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Roman Catholicism. Let them have both. The same with all other Europeans. Now, if we could only get the Israelis to accept Christ in addition to their own tribal Judaism...It only seems fair!