Christianity

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>New age paganism is left wing cancer.
Why did paganism fail?
Do you consider it to be a superior belief system?
If so, then why has it failed on a global scale

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Answered this before.

Just because Rome was subverted by Jews doesn't mean Christianity is correct and paganism is wrong. Christianity was paint on a pagan machine.

By this logic, Judaism is a superior belief because of how it is subverting all of the west.

Please answer each of the questions
Why did paganism fail?
Do you consider it to be a superior belief system?
If so, then why has it failed on a global scale

1. It failed because the Christians subverted it like kikes do now. And it didn't necessarily fail either.

2. Yes.

3. Same fucking question idiot.

I wonder what your European ancestors would say about all of you

They would say that I am not as strong as I need to be. Not sure they would have a problem with me being in academia though.

Christfag not knowing history

Not surprising

1. It failed because the Christians subverted it like kikes do now. And it didn't necessarily fail either.
Isn't the goal here on earth, survival?
2. Yes.
How could it be a superior system if it isn't thriving?
3. Same fucking question idiot.
What metric ate you using to determine success?

>Isn't the goal here on earth, survival?
Depends on how you feel personally I suppose. And sure the pagan eventually died off. That was the fault of the pagans, not paganism. They were killed by a superior force. Paganism doesn't teach militarization necessarily, but more of individual honor and strength.

2.How could it be a superior system if it isn't thriving
You are assuming systems should be measured on how well they kill other systems.

I am saying it is a better set of rules to live by.

>What metric ate you using to determine success?
Not sure. I suppose survival and the life people under it can have. And it's still alive.

From my own personal experience, I've found I'm far happier believing in a God than living as a miserable militant atheist. It provides me with irrational comfort, which is afar superior comfort than the rational kind. And that's because we are irrational beings at our core, it's why religion has, is, and always will be so prelevant for Humanity. Because we are irrational, the irrational comforts us far more than the rational, even though we claim to be rational beings of reason and logic, that doesn't appeal to humanity the same way as religion and faith does. The rational just doesn't provide the same kind of comfort the belief in a higher power brings to the hopeless, the downtrodden, and the desperate.it provides that one thing humans crave above all, hope that our shitty lives will get better. But when you know that the universe is going to end via heat death or something else, now that's just a real downer, like most of reality is. Its why we tend to shy away from a society ruled by pure logic.Eh but that's just my opinion, I could be a fucking idiot, maybe not. The point, people, is that I would be a happy, content idiot, at peace with myself and my God

>Isn't the goal here on earth, survival?Depends on how you feel personally I suppose. And sure the pagan eventually died off. That was the fault of the pagans, not paganism. They were killed by a superior force. Paganism doesn't teach militarization necessarily, but more of individual honor and strength.
Killed by a superior force.
>2.How could it be a superior system if it isn't thriving.You are assuming systems should be measured on how well they kill other systems.I am saying it is a better set of rules to live by.
Im suggesting not assuming.
>What metric are you using to determine success?Not sure. I suppose survival and the life people under it can have. And it's still alive.
Its been my experience that some of the last keepers of paganism are struggling

>Killed by a superior force.
Yes. Who happened to be Christian.

>Im suggesting not assuming.
Well then I disagree.

>Its been my experience that some of the last keepers of paganism are struggling
I don't know about that.

Here, keep this image as a reminder.
Good night :^)

I don't get any meaning from it. Sounds like you take pleasure in that mans suffering.

No no, just a reminder of our conversation.
I'm going to sleep now. Good night :^)

Who else here used to be atheist? Been reading the Bible lately and will start attending church soon to check it out, but am pretty skeptical.
A big part as you why I hated religion before wasn't because of the religion itself but the people who use it, so going to church has me kind of worried that I'll run into these people that use religion as a way of personal gain from others

Good job purposefully avoiding the question

Sage

Catholic or Orthodox?

I a Jew or anyone for that matter comes up to you tomorrow and says

>I'm the son of God and my mother is a virgin

You honestly believe him

Inb4 some christfag says miracles or """prophecies""", can't prove them.

Mythology is pretty fine and dandy until people start thinking it's real and try to use it to run countries and determine social norms...

How did I avoid it, I though I answered properly.

I answr this comprehensively here.

Paganism in Ireland collapsed becaue one man came and converted the population

See the last several posts

I' sorry but that just did not happen. Both the celtic pagans and Viking pagans in Ireland were converted peacefully

I honestly don't know. There was zero religion in my upbringing and the only reason I'm even beginning to get into religion as because I was one night desperately asking God for sign and got some dates on a church website that were very specific to my life

I agree that theological states are a poor system.

However a secular population is just as disastrous.

I'm not sure how I fucked up my English so bad in this post. Sorry for sounding like a retard.

Would anyone here support or join the Crusades if they started up again? A Christian militia, not a branch of the US military, but would maybe team up them if possible.

Pol users would stay in their basements bitching about the Jews and casual sex.

Well. Avoid low chutch Protestantism. Have a chat with a Roman Catholic priest and if you font like him find another, they are humans and some are incredible and some are awful with the spread of average taking the bell curve.

If you are curious this is a great resource

newadvent.org/cathen/


It is the Roman Catholic encyclopaedia.

You will see that a lot of answers are provided worth thinking over.

Before you think I am trying to convert you. It can take up to seven years before you will be accepted as a full member of the Church. You have to genuinely want to. You will have to ask, no one will go out and try and drag you in.

No. It would not be possible. Modern man lacks the discipline.

They were monks first sword to poverty, chastity and obedience in the early orders fating, exercise as penance, humility and .utter self discipline like the early hospitilars would be one in a million these days with the vocation and we live in an age where there other possibilities to address the issues. Islam will collapse on its own anyway. It is in its death throes since the collapse of the ottoman empire

Normally I'd make a joke about an Irishman sending me that's Roman Catholicism, but I actually appreciate it. Thank-you.

arent sexual temptations supposed to be bad in cuckanity

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Your welcome user. I'm a pretty bad Roman Catholic but I just like the depth of thinking. I lack self discipline. On theological matters the encyclopaedia is as deep as you want to go. I think the depth of the academic side of the church may be an eye opener for you.

I like the beatitudes and do pray daily though, usually at night and have made mass most Sundays for the last ten years. It has got me through some tough times and I would have avoided a lot of bad things when I was younger if I had stuck to my religions teachings.

I'd love to go to church and get a wife but in the small southern town I live in I'm a social pariah, that's why I'm on pol at 3:30 in the morning

The religion was killed by Christians. I know Christianization wasn't violent.

People are obsessed with sex. Yes ideally you should try and temper the bodily demands that includes over eating, being slothful, lazy, devoting your existence to fapping, sticking with one partner not cheating, main purpose of marriage is kids, sexual satisfaction is second etc.


However.....if all you do is indulge in hedonism and never practise self control you are living as nothing more than an animal and you will ultimately find that fapping, lying around being obese, hookers and blow are not actually that great a way to live.

Subjectivity my man. Hookers and blow is great for some, not for others.

The problem with how cuckanity reinforces self control is that is threatens you with lack of love and shitty fictional places rather than reinforcing the benefits. The Bible is a shit life guide.

No one decided to kill it except those who originally practised it though. Slavery and violence is not a fun lifestyle or society to live in compared to over the valley where the Christians were. Aside from that the monks brought literacy and education. The druids gave it up voluntarily. Crom and the morrigan, lug, bedb were terrifying in the pantheon of celtic gods. There was no hope. Just violence, slavery and cruelty. Literacy must have seemed magical to them, maps etc

I disagree. Read the beatitudes.

Believe me I have lived a varied life and decadence can leave you an emotional zombie. You wind up numb. I reverted to my religion over 20 years ago after realising that there was such a thing as evil in the world and that sometimes people behave irrationally with no explanation other than evil.

Think on this.

Soldiers that have fought for days without sleep. Their enemy surrenders and they butcher them. But rather than eating and resting they actualy waste ammunition and time using children for target practise. It makes no sense.

Bye anons. I have to head. Thank you for a great thread.

I'm athiest.

That sounds retarded, what you perceive as evil is a relative concept based on your own deep routed moral values as a result of your upbringing and irrational behavior can be explained in a variety of ways with even the most basic of social science.

I'm not sure what Gods you are speaking of. These are very different Gods to the ones I know.