If I even were to be a neopagan retard, wouldn't it make more sense for me to still regard the Fall of Rome and the Germanic migrations into England and Western/Southern Germany as a good thing? Rather than complaining about le evil Dark Ages and being some self-hating Hellenist faggot.
>>18268358Because the Goths were Christians themselves.
>>18268361Yeah converting to Christianity evidently worked to the favor of the Germanic invaders.
>>18268358The fall of Rome was punishment for embracing Christianity. The Romans believed in Pax Deorum (“Peace of the Gods”) in which worship of the gods was necessary for the survival of the Roman state, and looking back they were right to believe this; when Rome worshipped the gods, the gods blessed Rome with prosperity and when Rome slowly abandoned the gods in favor of Christianity, the gods punished Rome by taking away their blessings and allowing Rome to decline and eventually fall to barbarians. It was never a sign of their absence or weakness, but of their wrath. The gods only bestow their blessings to those who devoutly worship them and when people refuse to worship them, the gods simply take away their blessings as punishment. We are still suffering the consequences of abandoning them today as we’ve never achieved the aura Ancient Greece and Rome held.
