Churchy Paganism is Not the Way Forward

Neither is Cos-Play

Allegedly, Icelandic Paganism. Or When You Order Your Luthern Congregation from Wish?

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, it is easier for a Catholic to become a Pagan than it is for a Protestant to do the same.

The reason being; Catholics are already more than halfway there. In that, the Catholic Church only survived in Europe by first becoming a hybrid of Second Temple Rabbinical Judaism, with incorporation of enormous elements of Hellenic and Latin Paganism—and then in later centuries—dove-tailing into itself strong aspects of Nordic, and to a much lesser degree, Celtic Paganism.

Which the Vatican had no choice in doing if it were to survive outside the Middle East. Europeans are not Arabs. The Holy See knew this better than anyone and made changes accordingly.

It is one of the main reasons why many Hindus consider Catholicism to be a Pagan religion. Due to all the saints, rites, feast days and observances. There is not a lot of difference between visiting the Ganges and going to a Holy Well.

The Orthodox Church on the other hand, took on elements of Hellenic and Slavic Paganism, and likewise grew and flourished for the same reasons. I have long maintained that the underlying schism between the Vatican and the Orthodox Churches had as much to do with each individually adopting Nordic and Slavic Paganism, as much as it being a cultural hangover left from the Byzantine amputation of the latter Roman Empire.

Which brings us to Protestants… Lutherism and Calvinism, and later by extension, Anglicanism and all the other myriad of fragmentation and denominationalism that make up the Protestant ecosphere. All were directly a result of Germanic Christian fanatics wanting to be more Jewish than the Jews. So greater emphasis was placed upon the Old Testament—the first five books of the Torah—than the ‘Pagan Idolatry’ (which ironically, that’s precisely what it actually is) of the Catholic Church.

This is also the reason why Protestant authorities embarked on far more persecution of ‘witches’, while Catholics cardinals and bishops generally saw these remnants of Paganism as being essentially harmless folk beliefs among the peasants. Compare the fate of witches in Protestant Scotland, with that of Catholic Ireland, and this stark contrast becomes painfully clear.

So what has this got to do with the state of Paganism today then? I hear you ask.

So many of the Normies and Christians I know (both states are not necessarily inclusive of one another) have a tendency to think—thanks to all the Asatru dour Neo-Luthernism types out there—that all Pagans, are only Pagans, because it is 'edgy'. That it is somehow an act. Larping or Cos Play. Like a stage an adolescence, or middle aged social media ‘edge lord’ is going through. That we were once all good little Jesus boys and girls who are now only doing this to get back at our parents or some shit like that. That we joined a gang.

However, thanks to the carry-on by many Neo-Pagans today, I can’t really blame my non Pagan friends for arriving at this conclusion. As if Death Metal album covers is what exclusively led to us all becoming Pagans.

Personally, I had a revulsion to contemporary Asatru—as the modern form of Nordic Neo-Paganism—from the start. Too many extras from the Vikings TV series at the blots and a good many of them with Woke opinions that would have made an Anglican trans-lesbian vicar in Hertfordshire giggle with glee. The Burkean did an excellent article on this unfortunate aspect of Irish Paganism that is well worth reading. Altough the situation in Ireland has more to do with the legacy of the Wiccan ‘superstars’ Stewart and Janet Farrar dominating the rise of Neo-Paganism in Ireland rather than with the Church of Ireland.

Let’s be honest, a Heilung concert is basically Riverdance for Protestants and both are just a good night out. However, neither one are providing a legitimate basis upon which to live one’s spiritual and cultural life.

I wish more ex-Protestants would—when they become Pagans—leave their religion behind them. All you have to do is look at the churchy bullshit in modern Icelandic congregational Paganism to know they are all still kneeling in the pulpits now mouthing 'Hail' instead of 'Amen'.

Without the desire to cause offence or hurt my Protestant friends, when it comes to becoming a Pagan, the Catholics generally do it better and also have an easier time of it. This is because they did not have as far to wander outside of their own previous beliefs.