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Ancestors
Beliefs
By:
Ulfrikr
Heil All,
As for my ancestors, I feel a link to them, in that they have brought me to
this point, but it is how I live today, and act today, that makes as much of
an impact as anything that has gone before. Regardless of their
beliefs, ethnicity, or any other consideration, they are a part of who I am
thanks to their imparting their genetic and mimetic material with the
passing of each generation. As for Christianity, well, personally,
what any of my ancestors believed in that regard I have no reason to
reproach them for it. I don't agree with the philosophy, however, I
understand the community pressures that would have been placed upon them at
the time they lived. And indeed, Christianity did work, for some very
twisted reasons though. The messages it provided, were melded and
manipulated to suit the audience. It is certainly a belief system that
has assimilated other folk streams as much as it could, as well as providing
only limited messages that were necessary to ensure compliance. And
yes... it meets the needs of its' people, insofar as it tries and explains
some things about life and living, but neglects in many ways its' own
history and background. I know for a fact, that between Genesis and
the Gospels, Christianity glides over the rest, briefly stopping off along
the way at chapters and sound bites that support their ideas and
ideals. Forget about things such as the thirty two cities of Ai, who
cares about the tribe of folk who wanted to become Israelites after their
King got friendly with Dinah... such stories are left behind in a rush to
embrace the "all loving God"... who is more like a very
specifically loving god... that being YHWH who really is only looking out
for one group of folk, those who are bound to him... the rest he would love
to smash.
That's one reason why I like Asatru, we have explanations of things that our
folk came to terms with through their stories, their metaphors that reach
into our folk heritage. The new messages that were coated with honey
to sucker our folk in, was done at a time when they expected to hear these
things from a lorespeaker, so instead of a lorespeaker, they ended up with
priests, what would you have done? It only takes a couple of
generations for things to change, especially when the outsiders use your own
culture against you.
As for the whole idea of bashing Christianity... I'll happily hold it up to
the mirror for those who believe in it to really see, if they want to, the
whole picture... THEN let them choose. As for expecting ill of
Christians, I take each as they come, many a time I have stated, I will give
tolerance where tolerance is given, else they can expect as much of a
combative attitude as they show towards me. I'll give as good as I
get, in both regards.
Ver thu heil
Ulfrikr
**Ulfrikr is a member of
the AET**
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