Why did European pagans end up losing in literally every single confrontation with christianity?
>>18485837Humans want to cling onto something comforting. Paganism didn't answer as many questions as Christianity.
>>18485850It also wasn't as personally demanding.
>>18485852Sure, because Christianity rests on three pillars: faith, being a good citizen, and hope in the afterlife. You don't have to rock the boat in this life to get what you want because it's coming for you in the next one, you just need to stop striving. I don't see a point in having a relationship with the gods if there is no material benefit, and for most people in Europe it felt like that was the case. I remember a story about the Avars going to Constantinople and the description. It was in a book I read about a Byzantine bureaucrat, I'll find it.>A lofty hall stands in the huge building gleaming with a sun of metal . . . The imperial throne ennobles the innermost sanctum, set with four marvelous columns over which a canopy, shining as if of liquid gold, shades, like the vault of the curving sky, the immortal head and throne of the emperor as he sits there. The throne is adorned with jewels and is proud with purple and gold.>The wide floor was wondrous with its paving; carpets were spread over it . . . Hangings covered the doors. Guards stood at the lofty entrance and kept out anyone unworthy who wished to enter . . . When the officials, with their groups arranged in order, had taken their places in the decorated palace, a glorious light shone from the inner chamber and filled the whole audience hall. The emperor came forth.>Tergazis the Avar looked up at the head of the emperor shining with the holy diadem. He then lay down three times in adoration and remained fixed to the ground. The other Avars followed him in similar fear and fell on their faces, and brushed the carpets with their foreheads, and filled the spacious halls with their long hair and the imperial palace with their huge limbs.Basically, being a European pagan in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages was having a rather unexamined, philosophically unjustifiable belief system and having to look at a civilization that has one and incredible wealth and deciding to do as they did.
>>18485837The trade routes all over Europe were mostly operated by christians, thanks to the roman empire, who would either refuse to sell to folkish worshippers, or impose higher prices on their goods, and you know how the story ends.
They were opposing the true God
>>18485837>Paulinists inherit imperial roman sistems of power and influence towards almost all of Europe>Steamrolls all of the small patches of paganism left through either violence, political promises, etcIt isnt that hard
>>18486219Your “god” Yahweh is not a real god like Zeus is.Your “god” Yahweh is Typhon, the embodiment of chaos and father of all monsters.The bible itself proves this>It claims Yahweh will try to destroy this world (Book of Revelation)>It claims Yahweh is jealous of other gods (Deuteronomy 4:24 and Joshua 24:19)>It claims Yahweh is the “destroyer of nations” (Jeremiah 4:7)There's also the fact that Chaeremon, Apion, and Manetho all linked Yahweh to Set, the Egyptian god of chaos, destruction, and foreigners, whom later Egyptians equated with Typhon.You accuse the Olympians of being “demons,” but the reality is that the only "demon" here is Yahweh whom you worship.This is why your “god” forbids images of him, because he looks like this.
>>18486219>>18486311>It claims Yahweh is the “destroyer of nations” (Jeremiah 4:7)I should also mention that the phrase “destroyer of nations” is translated from the Hebrew phrase mashkhít goyím (משחית גוים) and in some versions of the Bible, this phrase is translated as “destroyer of gentiles.” They are literally calling him the “destroyer of goyim,” this only proves that Yahweh-Typhon is a demon.
>>18486312goyin literaly means nation retard, the "non jew" connotation is a later development only appearing after OT was codified
>>18486311imagine autistically spamming this for this long
>>18485837Because christians are going around claiming that end of days is happening and part of something i don’t think christians understand entirely is that in some weird way christians already come from beyond the beginning and ending of time but that’s just partly the way christians are situated in regards with respect to the dipole, the chipotle monism, the da vinci code, must read that tome again sometime, anyway this does not take away from christian reality except possibly to place within the limits of a sort of supra temporal causal intentionality enter pdk or something like that here anyways and more often than not christians claiming stuff like ‘within you is the kingdom of heaven’, christians from beyond the apocalypse having absorbed the greek logos and quoting augustine, that was charlemagne that order the globe trees torn up out of the earth cause charlemagne did not hold with globe trees or something like that
>>18485837Because they were massively outnumbered backwaters? The most civilized parts of europe were already christian because of the roman empire. The rest mostly converted through missionaries. So at the end we have what, the northernmost parts and some tribals from east europe?
>>18485837Because paganism is retarded af when you think about it and Neoplatonism was too intellectual for normies to grasp.
>>18485837TRUTH ALWAYS ULTIMATELY PREVAILS OVER ERROR.
>>18487028The only erroneous one here is you since you worship Yahweh-Typhon and genuinely think that the lies of the conman Rabbi Yeshua Ben Pandera have any weight to them.>>18487008Polytheism is not retarded + it’s on you alone if you can’t understand philosophy >>18486316Yes, that’s why in the Hebrew Bible it’s exclusively used to refer to nations outside Israel and why every Bible translation for the past 2000 years translated the word as gentile.>>18486320You know I’m right, cope.>>18485850>>18485852Sar, that appeals to men, because men seek justice, even for their own deeds. That's why Catholics added non-biblical purgatory in, to appeal to that sentiment. Conditionless forgiveness and redemption appeals to the weak and the wicked, the former because they are excessively fearful or have no means to atone for their sins now, and the latter because it gives them license to sin.A pagan who displayed cowardice might be recklessly aggressive in the next battle to make up for it. Someone who stole money might give it back, or make an equal donation to a good cause. A Christian would say yabadabadoo Yahweh forgives you and that would be that. One is a lot easier than the other, and the masses will take the path of least resistance.>>18485886If you think material wealth proves Christianity correct, then care to explain why the vast majority of Christian nations are third-world shitholes in extreme poverty (Africa and Latin America) while China, an atheist country that persecutes Christians and France, a hyper-secular country and Japan, a pagan country all have higher wealth and living standards?
>>18487050that’s a lot of words to type up that nobody will read
>>18487050Anti Christian poster once again proving his entire philosophy is based off spite and hatred
>>184870791. There are multiple users here who oppose Christianity. You have to be irrational to think all anti-Christian sentiment comes from a single spammer.2. Hating irrational idiots such as Christians is infact a good thing. After all, flat earthers are retards who deserve to be bullied for their retardation and Christians are no different.
>>18485837Because a certain someone shed the blood of the Saxon men.
>>18487089>Christians == Flat EarthersFalse equivalency. It's like saying "huh why would I bother to argue against atheism when communism is obviously false?"Same idea, just like "orthodox" Christians are not all flat earthers, not all atheists are communist.However, all atheists by NECESSITY are moral subjectivists. They have no basis for their morality besides a societal reddit updoot system. There could be a society where ripping the heart out of a living human would be considered "good" and indeed we have witnessed such a society in the Aztecs. The atheist cannot condemn such a society, because morality (to them) is a social construct.
>>18485837Because European Christianity is 95% Hellenic Paganism with new testament larp.
>>18485837Hell is one of the most powerful rhetorical devices of all time. It really cannot be understated. It's noteworthy that the only religion to rival Christianity in its global spread, Islam, also threatens Hell.
>>18485837What is subversion, for 200. Alex.
>>18487946Basically every religion ever taught Hell. It's because Hell is real. Why a religion spreads has very little to do with the teaching on Hell (or more generally the teaching of punishment that awaits those who are morally corrupt in this life), because basically all religions teach Hell and not all religions spread. Zoroastrianism teaches a Hell that is practically equivalent to the Catholic/Orthodox understanding of Hell, yet Zoroastrianism is going extinct while Catholicism/Orthodoxy numbers well over a billion.Catholicism/Orthodoxy spreads because evangelization is a tenet. Islam spreads because Jihad is a tenet. Zoroastrianism didn't spread because it doesn't seek converts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJShDqxM1E
>>18487966Why did pagans keep allowing subversion to happen all the time?
>>18485837Kind of like how you lost to 9/11. Its hard to fight an enemy that successfully convinces hordes of poor retards their lives don't really matter so they should become blood thirsty kamikazes en masse.
I genuinely want Total Christcuck Death for them worshipping a Jew who preached White Genocide.Christians are the enemy of the White race; moreso than Jews. They always have been.Jews were never an issue under Paganism; only when Christianity showed did Jews show up along with it. Jews are enemies; Christians are traitors.
>>18488270Pagan rome, famously empty of jews
>>18485837Same reason the modern West got totally subverted by jews. Normal people are extremely vulnerable to sociopaths.
Once they got hold of Rome, what else was left to conquer but naked savages
