There is no evidence that anyone living in Anglo-Saxon England ever described themselves as a "pagan" or understood there to be a singular religion, "paganism", that stood as a monolithic alternative to Christianity. These pagan belief systems would have been inseparable from other aspects of daily life. Anglo-Saxon paganism was "not a religion with supraregional rules and institutions but a loose term for a variety of local intellectual world views." In Anglo-Saxon England, neither paganism nor Christianity represented "homogenous intellectual positions or canons and practice"; instead, there was "considerable interdigitation" between the two. As a phenomenon, this belief system lacked any apparent rules or consistency, and exhibited both regional and chronological variation. Anglo-Saxon paganism was a "world accepting" religion, one which was "concerned with the here and now" and in particular with issues surrounding the safety of the family, prosperity, and the avoidance of drought or famine. Anglo-saxons were simply "not Christians", the Pope in the early mididle ages, teamed up with Charlemagne in the Frankish territory and they then started persecuting Anglo saxons. Politically, this was necessary for Romanizing the Germanic people through the adoption of Christianity.
wow that's crazy
Bump both & neither
>>489100235You are retarded and probably brown. The Anglo Saxons practiced Germanic polytheism...
>>489100235>Anglos are gayYeah why I'm proud to be Welsh blooded. Land belongs to the sheep fuckers. All Germanics, Norwegian "celts" and modern shitskins need to leave England.Love to my Welsh cousins in Wales.
>>489100235G*rms were savages
>>489101463>American flag You've got as much connection to Wales and it's history as the Somalians that live there.
>>489100235Mom! Anon’s being an autistic retard again!!
>>4891002351. Paganism is not really a religon2. Europe has never invented religionsYou need spiritual souls to create religion.
>>489100235>We wuz always JewsAbsolutely retarded, you do know that the Saxons were Germanic invaders who overtook England during the fall of the Roman Empire? Are you going to claim the Germans never followed the Germanic pantheon?Why don't you get back to money laundering meth through your taco stand Juan, you believing the CIA is responsible for your country being a shithole is more believable than your Semitic fairytales
>>489100235>We wuz always JewsRetard, why does the word "God" come from Odin's name and why are the days of the week named after Norse gods
>>489101563And proud of it Frenchie, all the best parts of France were when my ancestors got there and it was shit when they left.
>>489101762>knighting me with as much authority as the rulers of your country.I will perform the duty of my duty faithfully. God save the King and God save Wales!
le "anglos saxon king if you convert to Christinatiy you get some hot sexy loans from da pope>Anglo-Saxon paganism only existed for a relatively short time-span, from the fifth to the eighth centuries.[40] Our knowledge of the Christianisation process derives from Christian textual sources.[50] Both Latin and ogham inscriptions and the Ruin of Britain by Gildas suggest that the leading families of Dumnonia and other Brittonic kingdoms had already adopted Christianity in the 6th century. In 596, Pope Gregory I ordered a Gregorian mission to be launched in order to convert the Anglo-Saxons to the Roman Catholic Church.[51] The leader of this mission, Augustine, probably landed in Thanet, then part of the Kingdom of Kent, in the summer of 597.[51] While Christianity was initially restricted to Kent, it saw "major and sustained expansion" in the period from c.625 to 642, when the Kentish king Eadbald sponsored a mission to the Northumbrians led by Paulinus, the Northumbrian king Oswald invited a Christian mission from Irish monks to establish themselves, and the courts of the East Anglians and the Gewisse were converted by continental missionaries Felix the Burgundian and Birinus the Italian.[52] The next phase of the conversion took place between c. 653 and 664, and entailed the Northumbrian sponsored conversion of the rulers of the East Saxons, Middle Anglians, and Mercians.[52] In the final phase of the conversion, which took place during the 670s and 680s, the final two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to be led by pagan rulers—in Sussex and the Isle of Wight—saw their leaders baptised.
>>489102272>why does the word "God" come from Odin's name It doesn't, the word god comes from IE ghuto, which means "to call upon", so a god is someone being called upon.>and why are the days of the week named after Norse godsBecause of 19th century romanticism.
>>489102112shutup jesuit agent, you are the one believing fairy tales. The pope poisoned all the Kingsof Mercia minds in the 7th century, then there were drunk irish monks why would the english believe drunk irish monks
>>489101905A claim so retarded that it's easily refuted on its own grounds. England was the birthplace of Thelema and Wicca, you might think both religions are gay but refutes your gay ass
>>489102462Why are the names of the week and the word for "God" from the Norse pantheon? Why don't you convert to Judaism if you want to be ancestrally Jewish so bad
>>489102596Why don't you take another loan from the pope Eddie!
>>489102596>Why are the names of the week and the word for "God" from the Norse pantheon?I don't know, but thats a good point, maybe it was a concession, by the money changers
>>489102515>names irrelevant religon that no one has ever heard of No wonder it didn’t become as popular as Middle East religions.
The pagan hierarchical structure disintegrated rapidly in the seventh century in the face of Christianity's systematic organization. But folk practices were all-pervasive in everyday life. The animistic character of Germanic belief prior to Christianization, with its emphasis on nature, holistic cures, and worship at wells, trees, and stones, meant that it was hard to counteract on an institutional level of organized religion... The synthesis of Christian and Germanic ideas gradually transformed these practices, undoubtedly at the local level... In this way Christianity ultimately penetrated the homes and daily lives of the various Germanic peoples in the centuries after the arrival of the first missionaries."— Historian Karen Louise Jolly, 1996.
>>489102939Thats the question though, why would a middleaeastern religion with middle eastern prophets become so popular to anglo saxons, the anglo saxons didnt even speak latin, only the franks did.
>>489102939>Aleister Crowley was so irrelevant despite being on the cover of the Beatles Sgt PeppersLmao, good bait
>>489102346Funny how they assume total conversion after some leaders were baptized. Funnier that they don't see how the English in the Danelaw could be magically pagan again. Even funnier that they still retain pagan traditions.>>489102461I'm sure you are the raiding turk but explain English pagan placenames.
>>489100235semantic kikery. they worshiped their ancestors and didn't have a special name for it as it was self-evident for all non-platonic non-abrahamic peoples
>>489103195>The middle east spoke LatinNigga are you this retarded? The Jews spoke Aramaic and the Lingua Franca of Eastern Rome was Greek, not Latin.
>>489100235Are you just another retard who thought pagan was a single religion rather than a category of religions/beliefs?
>>489102700>Christcuck kings were cucksAnd? At least England didn't get as fucked by the Jews like France did
>>489101463There's none more Welsh than the Welsh in America
>>489103195Same reasons it became popular with barbaric Vikings. Europeans were living in the dark area eating each other before Arahamic religions saved them
>>489103569Or the King converted out of political convenience and gave the death penalty to all subjects who didn't convert like all conversions of Christianity
>>489103317No, it's that retarded christian discord raiding again.
