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THE INCLUSION OF ARYANISM (RELIGIOSITY OF WAR) INTO CHRISTIANITY
—“However, such reluctance among Christians may be somewhat ironic, since, were it not for its Germanization, Christianity might never have spread throughout Northern and Central Europe.
One of the most obvious examples of the Christian accommodation of Germanic religiocultural attitudes may be found in the medieval Church’s attitude toward warfare. In a study of this subject, J. M. Wallace-Hadrill has noted: Germanic pagan peoples had a clear sense that war was a religious undertaking, in which the gods were interested. At once one thinks of Woden as a God peculiarly, though not exclusively, connected with warfare Pagan and pagan-transitional warfare, then, had its religious facet. Not surprisingly, Christian missionaries found this ineradicable, though not unadaptable to their own purposes. Christian vernacular makes considerable use of the terms of pagan warfare…. Why, then, did the men who converted the Anglo-Saxons differ so sharply [in their apparent indifference toward the warrior code] from Wulfila? The Anglo-Saxons were not less bellicose than the Goths. The answer may lie in the prudent spirit of accommodation shown by Gregory the Great. More than that, the pope was an ardent supporter of warfare to spread Christianity and convert the heathen, and this last is, I think, the more important consideration. So far from rejecting the Germanic war-ethos the pope means to harness it to his own ends, and the evidence is that he succeeded. The barbarians may fight to their heart’s content in causes blessed by the Church, and this is made clear not only in the matter of vocabulary. It is the position of the Church rather than of the Germans that had undergone modification. As Erdmann showed, the Church subsumed and did not reject the warlike moral qualities of its converts. Who shall say that St. Michael of later days was not Woden under fresh colors?71
The apotheosis of the Christian assimilation of the Germanic warrior code may be found in St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s “recruitment tract” for the military order of the Knights Templars, De laude novae militiae, in which the killing of non-Christians in battle is justified, if not encouraged.72″–
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544803329 Timestamp) THE NATURAL LAW FUNCTION OF RELIGION —“…error…”— I don’t make errors. It’s my job. I run tests. I try to remove all falsehood from all statements. To leave only the truth standing. Because that other than sovereignty, it is western man’s uniqueness: Truth Regardless of the Impact to the self-image(personal), status(social), competence(economic), and dominance(political) hierarchy. Now, back to your criticism. —“Religion is nothing but education.”–CD There is nothing [in your comment] that you have stated that counters this proposition. Religion is education. It provides (educates with) narratives of intergenerational transference of mindfulness, codes of conduct(ethics and morals), signaling(social order ), tradition (strategy), and law (property rights and obligations). Some religions do this by the abrahamic method of deceit, some do it by the buddhist method, some by the hindu method(s), and some by the ancestor-worship methods. Some by simple folk rituals. Some emphasize a way of life (hinduism), some emphasize a way of thought (buddhism and stoicism), and some a ritual (shintoism), and some a cognitive fantasy (abrahamism). —“…curt…”— Psychologism is always and everywhere false. So the straw man is pointless. I am advocating for stoicism (mindfulness by self authoring), ancestor worship (thanks – we have ancestors worthy of it), and nature ‘worship'(celebration), with the ambition of transcendence of man into the gods we have designed (omnipotent, omniscient, omnirational). Not as individuals but as a collective. This provides the spectrum of personal, interpersonal, social, political, and group strategies that all of us appear to need. There is nothing in that list that is not both scientifically achievable, fulfilling of behavioral demand, and free of deceits and frauds. We know so because all of these have and do exist. So if you are invested in a lie – the answer is why? Are you human and capable of choice between truth and lie, or are you still animal and incapable of choice between truth and lie? Religion is simply education. Education in the personal, interpersonal, social, political, and strategic by ritual(repetition) practice – like every OTHER thing we learn through repetition. Like how to move our bodies, how to speak, how to socialize, how to read, do math, operate a machine, or compose works of innovative thought. I am not anti-religion. Just anti-lies. My religion is Transcendence of man into gods, by the use of Sovereignty, Truth, Duty, Charity, the Natural Law of Reciprocity and the Jury, Markets in everything, producing the most rapid calculation of, and achievement of godhood that is possible for man to perform. This religion requires training in mindfulness in the personal, interpersonal, social, political, international realms. In the physical (fitness), mental (mindfulness), social (manners, ethics, morals), calculative (3R’s), economic (job skills), political (laws), strategic (strategy). And under my method we return dominance of daily life from the State to the Church, ending the academy, and ending the Cathedral Complex. Creating a single ‘intolerante’ religion (education system). And with it, ending Abrahamism in jewish, christian, and muslim form, as well as Marxist, Postmodern, Feminist form. And with that, end this scam we call democracy which is an excuse to intermediate us from the courts as the means of resolving conflicts both private and common. And restoring rule of law, including houses for the classes to negotiate, and monarchy as judge of last resort, and a universal militia to guarantee all of the above. Period. There are a few arguments you might raise against me, but you are not able. your life consists of malinvestment in lies that produce ignorance, poverty, and dark ages, and have cost a billion lives. There is no better service we can do the world than eliminate abrahamism, for aside from the great plagues there is nothing more horrible in the experience of man. Curt Doolittle
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544760019 Timestamp) THE IRRELEVANCE OF DOGMAS, AND THE RELEVANCE OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, RITUAL, AND ADMINISTRATION —“the Germanic peoples did not bother to object to individual dogmas, because dogmatic orthodoxy was not central to their notion of religion. The second reason that the Germanization of Christianity is seldom acknowledged may be that now, when syncretic developments are usually associated with “developing nations,” there may exist at least a sub-conscious reluctance by Western Christians to accept the notion that their mainstream religious tradition is itself the result of a syncretic development which eventually became normative.”— I mean, having literate folk around to mediate between the aristocracy and the people, and to organize feast, festivals, and to educate each other, is not But we have to understand that people in the medieval period treated the church very much like we treat politicians.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544760164 Timestamp) THE INCLUSION OF ARYANISM (RELIGIOSITY OF WAR) INTO CHRISTIANITY
—“However, such reluctance among Christians may be somewhat ironic, since, were it not for its Germanization, Christianity might never have spread throughout Northern and Central Europe. One of the most obvious examples of the Christian accommodation of Germanic religiocultural attitudes may be found in the medieval Church’s attitude toward warfare. In a study of this subject, J. M. Wallace-Hadrill has noted: Germanic pagan peoples had a clear sense that war was a religious undertaking, in which the gods were interested. At once one thinks of Woden as a God peculiarly, though not exclusively, connected with warfare Pagan and pagan-transitional warfare, then, had its religious facet. Not surprisingly, Christian missionaries found this ineradicable, though not unadaptable to their own purposes. Christian vernacular makes considerable use of the terms of pagan warfare…. Why, then, did the men who converted the Anglo-Saxons differ so sharply [in their apparent indifference toward the warrior code] from Wulfila? The Anglo-Saxons were not less bellicose than the Goths. The answer may lie in the prudent spirit of accommodation shown by Gregory the Great. More than that, the pope was an ardent supporter of warfare to spread Christianity and convert the heathen, and this last is, I think, the more important consideration. So far from rejecting the Germanic war-ethos the pope means to harness it to his own ends, and the evidence is that he succeeded. The barbarians may fight to their heart’s content in causes blessed by the Church, and this is made clear not only in the matter of vocabulary. It is the position of the Church rather than of the Germans that had undergone modification. As Erdmann showed, the Church subsumed and did not reject the warlike moral qualities of its converts. Who shall say that St. Michael of later days was not Woden under fresh colors?71 The apotheosis of the Christian assimilation of the Germanic warrior code may be found in St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s “recruitment tract” for the military order of the Knights Templars, De laude novae militiae, in which the killing of non-Christians in battle is justified, if not encouraged.72″– -
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544759893 Timestamp) —“This process of accommodation resulted in the essential transformation of Christianity from a universal salvation religion to a Germanic, and eventually European, folk religion”—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544760019 Timestamp) THE IRRELEVANCE OF DOGMAS, AND THE RELEVANCE OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, RITUAL, AND ADMINISTRATION —“the Germanic peoples did not bother to object to individual dogmas, because dogmatic orthodoxy was not central to their notion of religion. The second reason that the Germanization of Christianity is seldom acknowledged may be that now, when syncretic developments are usually associated with “developing nations,” there may exist at least a sub-conscious reluctance by Western Christians to accept the notion that their mainstream religious tradition is itself the result of a syncretic development which eventually became normative.”— I mean, having literate folk around to mediate between the aristocracy and the people, and to organize feast, festivals, and to educate each other, is not But we have to understand that people in the medieval period treated the church very much like we treat politicians.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544758945 Timestamp) CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A PRODUCT OF ITS ORIGINS, BUT OF ITS TRANSFORMATION INTO GERMANICIZED FOLK RELIGION – RE-INSTITUTIONALIZED UNDER COLONIALISM. —-…”a concept is not best understood in light of its origins, but rather in light of the direction in which the tradition is moving. To take Christianity as a notorious example: I do not believe that the truth of Christianity will best be elucidated by a search for its origins, but rather by an observation of its development in tradition. This approach is a reversal of the assumption that has dominated Christian and much other religious scholarship for a very long time, an assumption characterized by the genetic fallacy: that the true meaning of a wordâor of an ideaâlies in its pristine state.48″—-
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544759893 Timestamp) —“This process of accommodation resulted in the essential transformation of Christianity from a universal salvation religion to a Germanic, and eventually European, folk religion”—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544758682 Timestamp) —“Discoveries [were] made by church workers in regions and in a period where we would assume particularly deep and well-instructed religiosity: Saxony and the neighboring parts of Germany around 1600. Once out of the upper-class circles, however, and even in a time of bitter theological rivalries to concentrate the greatest possible attention on the faith, the vast bulk of the population are found to have been largely or totally ignorant of the simplest matters of doctrine, rarely or never attending church. . . . “They were given over to “soothsayers, cunning women, crystal-gazers, casters of spells, witches, and other practitioners of forbidden arts.”—tGoEMC
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1544758945 Timestamp) CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A PRODUCT OF ITS ORIGINS, BUT OF ITS TRANSFORMATION INTO GERMANICIZED FOLK RELIGION – RE-INSTITUTIONALIZED UNDER COLONIALISM. —-…”a concept is not best understood in light of its origins, but rather in light of the direction in which the tradition is moving. To take Christianity as a notorious example: I do not believe that the truth of Christianity will best be elucidated by a search for its origins, but rather by an observation of its development in tradition. This approach is a reversal of the assumption that has dominated Christian and much other religious scholarship for a very long time, an assumption characterized by the genetic fallacy: that the true meaning of a wordâor of an ideaâlies in its pristine state.48″—-