Paganism or Christianity. Should You Become a Catholic？
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In this episode, I discuss if you should become a Christian or not, and why I don't think it's a good idea. If you don't have any spirituality at the moment, but you want to convert to Christianity, this episode is for you!
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Greetings. Today I want to elaborate on a perhaps controversial topic, but I think it is needed
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because a lot of people ask this to themselves and to me, and that is, should you become a
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Catholic? Should you become a Christian? And this is approached from an atheist sort of
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viewpoint. So I'm talking about the people in Sweden, Norway, certain parts of Germany, America,
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where you haven't grown up with Christianity. So if you have grown up with Christianity and you're
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a practicing Christian, and if you are part of a Christian community, I'm not saying that you
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should go away from it, because if you can draw strength from that, by all means, I don't want to
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be the one trying to take that away from you. So this is if someone is without a spirituality
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and can basically choose. So I'm not counter-signaling Christianity for those who are
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already Christian. I am just saying this is my advice if you don't have any spirituality at the
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moment, but you want to. So if you're thinking about converting to Catholicism, this is just my
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a little heads up for you. Now, first and foremost, I'm the first one to recognize correctly,
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identify the fact that Catholicism and Christianity, even Orthodox Christianity, extremely attractive,
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extremely glorious aesthetics and everything like that. It is very attractive in that sort of way.
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But, but, and this is a big however that we need to discuss, it is not congruent with a lot of
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the soul of our people. And I speak as a Norseman, and this obviously applies for
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many other Europeans as well. If you look in the Bible, and I've done this over the last year,
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because I've obviously been interested in it to, so I don't recommend things to people without
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knowing what I'm talking about. So looking a bit in the Bible breaks my heart to say it, but like,
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it's, it's all about Israel. It's all about Jews. It's all about a completely different geography
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than our own. And it's so hard for me to relate to it. So my perspective was an atheist slash pagan
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looking into Catholicism, because I wanted to know more about it. But it is so foreign, at least for me,
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that I can't endorse it for anyone who is in my situation. And I'm saying this because if there is
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a choice between paganism, for example, or Catholicism, or being an Orthodox in Sweden,
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I don't view it as reasonable to go with the Catholic path. And this becomes quite clear when
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you look deeper into it. So it looks beautiful on the outside. If you get a closer look at it,
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yeah, not something I can endorse. It pains me to say this, I didn't really want to do it either,
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because I don't want any infighting either. But if we have the possibility to revive Europe,
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revive Sweden, for example, in a spiritual sense, the Catholic Church is not what you're looking for.
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I'm sorry to say this, but paganism is much more in tune with our nature, can take such a thing as
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how you view time. The Norse mythology way of viewing time is cycles, which aligns perfectly well
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with how nature works here. You know, the year goes in cycles, whereas in the desert, it's just an
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endless time that goes forward. Same Christianity has that sort of view, that time is just one stretch,
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whereas the Norse interpretation of time is going in cycles, which makes more sense and brings more
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harmony to my soul at least. And then it's a case of being subservient to a deity. It speaks more to
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my soul as a Faustian man to adhere to the principles of the Norse gods than it is to submit to a god that
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originally is from the Middle East. That's just how it is. I don't want to submit to the Christian god.
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I don't want to embrace the teachings of Christianity. I don't like the Bible. I don't think the Bible is
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a good book. So there it is. That's my thoughts on if you should become a Christian or not.
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Now, keep in mind, I still have great historic respect for Christianity for a lot of different
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reasons, but that doesn't mean that I want Christianity going forward. So the same thing,
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I can have a deep historic respect for the Swedish soldiers who fought against Russians,
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Poles, and Germans. Now, obviously, Poland is our greatest ally in this day and age, but I still respect
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our Swedish soldiers who fought against these other Europeans. But that doesn't mean that I want that
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going forward. Same thing with Christianity. It's played a good role in European history to a certain extent,
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but going forward in Sweden, at least, I don't want it to be Christian because the fundament of it is flawed.
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And I say that because the reading a bit in the Bible is incongruent with at least my worldview.
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So I would definitely recommend a revival of paganism in especially Scandinavia. Then again,
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in countries such as Poland, France, Spain, Italy, I still want the Catholic Church to be strong there
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because it's still a powerful entity. It's still an entity that brings people together. But in the north,
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in basically all Protestant nations, the church has become something that is quite separated from our
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souls and something I cannot recommend anyone to partake in. And then someone might say that you're
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LARPing as a pagan. Yeah, but honestly, I would LARP even more as being a Christian, especially if you
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haven't been a Christian. So for me, I'm not baptized. I'm not confirmed. I have no real connection with the
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Catholic Church. So for me to adapt something that I can just feel it is not for me, that if anything would
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be LARPing. And also, like, if you are interested in Catholicism, don't take my word for it. Investigate
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for yourself and ask yourself, is this the right path for me? Is this the sort of spirituality I want
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to adhere to? And I think at least that for many people who have, for many high Thumos guys, like me
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from Scandinavia especially, I would say that I don't think you will feel at home there. And here's
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something Survive the Jive told me when we talked about it. So I asked him, like, oh, what do you think
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about Christianity and Catholicism? And he held a two-hour monologue, which I listened to. And a profound
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thing he said there was, it makes more sense to be a Christian in a city than it does if you have
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access to a forest. Because a church can supply that place of contemplation and serenity. But if
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you already live out in the countryside, if you have a forest nearby, and I mean in Sweden, even if you
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live in the city, it's not far to the nearest forest, then you already have your temple, as it were. And
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also if you have a temple of Iron, you can actively worship the teachings of Thor there. And I'm obviously
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not saying that Christians shouldn't also pray in the temple of Iron. Ultimately, the spiritual
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struggle is secondary to the metapolitical and the cultural struggle. So that's also why I hesitated
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to make this video, because I don't want to have any infighting between pagans and Christians,
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because I think that's unnecessary when we have a lot of bigger fish to fry. But I'm just saying that
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for a pagan, the nature, the forest is a more suitable temple than a church. And I say this as someone who
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absolutely love churches. I absolutely do. So take it for what it is. So lastly, yet again, this video was for
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the people who are looking into a spirituality, and they haven't already been into it. So if you are from Poland,
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if you are from France, if you are from certain parts of Germany, I am absolutely not saying that
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you should renounce Catholicism. But this is for the guys who, they don't have a spirituality. And I can
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just say that if you're interested in Christianity, look into the teachings of it, read the Bible,
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and see, is this the religion for me? Is this the spirituality for me? Is the Holy Land in the Middle East,
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or is it in Europe? I know full well that the Holy Land, for me at least, is Sweden in May. No more
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beautiful place to be. So that's my take on the situation. The way you view the gods, more in tune
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with our nature as well. Reincarnation, your being, your ancestors, and you're becoming your offspring,
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your children as well. More reasonable, more scientific than believing in heaven or hell. I honestly,
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I can't believe in heaven or hell. I believe that your immortality is in your genes, in your genetics,
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and you achieve immortality via your children. And your ancestors are, to a certain extent, you.
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So that's two completely different views on life as well, and I adhere to the, in my view at least,
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more scientific way. So, rambling over. I hope that brought some perspective to you.