Will neopaganism ever become a serious religious movement, given 5% of people who leave Christianity in the UK convert to it?
>>18222770No, because it's not academic, it's purely ideological and sentimental. Look at the photo; one of the gurus acts like a feminist, so his followers will be even worse.
>>18222770>be 5% of uk christian dropouts>be 0.2% of total uk population (lol)>no central book, no unified dogma, just vibes>larping as vikings/celts in a forest once a month>get outnumbered by no religion by 20 to 1Never going to be serious. Just a niche aesthetic for disaffected weirdos.
>>18222778>no central book, no unified dogmaAnd why is that a problem? Neoplatonists already answered this; all religions are different shades of the truth. To proclaim that only one interpretation is true and that every other one is “false” is a sign of ignorance.
>>18222794>And why is that a problem?Because they're competing with religions that do
>>18222776What gay bro
>>18222770Its a meme most people dont really believe in it and paganism isnt a religion anyway it refered to anyone who wasnt christian or jewish the only serious movement in the UK are the wicca because they have some organised beliefs and rituals people go to. they are basically just lefty witch larpers, some of them have sex with broomsticks
>>18222770Probably not considering that neopaganism has been a thing since the late 19th century and all it accomplished are short lived sex cults and being fronts for slightly longer lived rightwing or leftwing ideologues.>>18222794You need organised masses if you want to any serious social movement. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, communists, faschists and even influencers understand this.
>>18222770No because people have become thoroughly materialistic in thought. It's hard to even find people with the spiritual inclination to understand there's more than just the physical world, let alone taking the time to understand the system of archetypes that is paganism. The pagan mindset lives on in a few people but it'll never be some kind of large movement.
Atena the goddess of social warfareie memetics, gossip, lies, etc
Queen of the ad hominems, bad faith arguments, and all around argumentative but purposeless nuisance.
Behold! The real Aten(a) that doesnt look like the cute warrior goddess she never was lolTiny baby rapist hands
>>18222980bhuddism also don't have a central book or a unified dogma like the modern abrahamic religions you are familiar with nor did early Christianity, nor did the whole woke/progressive movement that took over a considerable chunk of western institutions and society The idea that you need centralization for a social movement seems silly at best
>>18222770>>18222776You can't resurrect a religion, this is pure larping, a religion is never rooted in rational choices but in world feeling and on this age we are creatures of the city and the machine, people will naturally praise Rheinmetall and Nvidia with more conviction than Athena or Hephaistos, in fact it would make more sense to reinterpret Athena as the embodiment of Rheinmetall than try to push her as aspects of a reality dead for centuries, pic related is what Athena would look like, drone tanks and automated SPGs flanking her, her sacred symbols.
