The TRIBE of the Modern Solutreans
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I was invited to join a "heathen" discussion group on Yahoo.
I did so, but writing this:
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Dear Ann and all,
Thanks for your welcome; I am glad to be here!
My perspective is perhaps different from that of some other posters here. I do NOT hate Jesus. I see him as a rebel against Judaism. And I wonder what his real doctrines were. The Hindus assert he was in India, studying their Vedanta. I have met a German who in India saw "Jesus' tomb."
I think Christianity spread not only because of force, violence and hypocrisy, but also because the idea of love, letting go of vengeance, dropping feuds and seeking peace appealed to the ancient Romans and still stirs hearts today. As does being rewarded for
leading a good life now in the afterlife later.
We all have to face DEATH and after a hard life! What happens then?
People also want a structure to raise their kids in.
Thomas Carlyle, a Scot, wrote a famous book in the 1840s called Heroes and Hero Worship. It had a huge effect on many young people who later became famous, including an Austrian watercolorist. it also impacted historians and led to the flourishing of the "great-man theory of history." (Carlyle wrote: "History is the biography of great men.")
In any case, Carlyle said that no great religion will ever pass away, no matter how decrepit, unless and until the good in it is transferred over to the successor religion. And any religion that has existed for 2,000 years is giving some people at least some of what they want and crave to make it through life with a little bit of happiness on this harsh, harsh planet.
In other words, I see some truths
in Christianity, and I have a feeling Jesus Himself was an amazing man. By the way, Jewish writings claim his father was a Roman centurion. The man who chased the crooked money changers out of the temple with a whip and faced torture and death bravely was certainly no wimp. I believe that what will save our race is a new faith, free of psychopathic influences, and synthesizing both heathen ("yang") and Jesus energies (mostly "yin"). Heathenism in its original forms failed to stop Christianity, mainly because it attracted women, who raised their kids as Christians. Some of them were princesses and queens.
And this was the belief of a famous Austrian: Odinism in its literal old form cannot save our race. The old must be reborn new. A new form of our ancestral faith must arise.
John de Nugent