Pemalite said:
If you adhere to the Old Testament (And some Christian denominations do! Especially more extreme right-wing sects!) then the support of Polygamy would well and truly be a thing.
Some Christian denominations are very anti-divorce as it was a fairly modern invention.
Pagans certainly didn't adhere to the middle-eastern, abrahamic God that the Jews, Christians and Muslims believe... In-fact not all Pagans believed in afterlife or reincarnation either. |
I don't adhere to the Old Testament and neither do most Jews. Most of Judaism today is based on the Talmud not the Torah. I understand the existence of right wing Christian groups that believe in polygamy. Christianity with 2 billion or so adherents is obviously a big tent with a lot of contradiction, a lot of people who might be going to hell. The Old Testament and much of the Bible is filled with sin and people failing to meet God's expectations so human life in the Bible isn't necessarily met with endorsement. Context is super important when reading religious texts.
I will say that some people I follow in right wing politics basically support polygamy as long as its done by a man. Which to me is a huge double standard, but it does technically follow a natural order better which is just simply due to the nature of sex (I want to put gender, but I know that someone will say gender is different). Women of course bear the children, men could theoretically have harems and it would not destroy the natural order. My objection is I see the human population consistently having children at 1 male to 1 female ratios and think it's probably more sane and responsible for all of the reproducing population to adhere to monogamy. I honestly don't care too much about what people do in private, but the reality is that none of this information is being kept private and degenerates tend to flaunt and brag about it. I would not be surprised for pride month to include at a later point. Of course polygamists also tend to not be totally open in their relationships because then the game doesn't work. So I just see a ton of moral flaws and negative movement in society. I've seen polyamory destroy a healthy relationship of my cousin and her husband. Now their children have to live with their divorce and its consequences. Is every child who is born in a broken home, no longer human and doomed to fail. Of course not. I just don't think it's ideal. I look at the rise of degeneracy and the current birthrates of western developed countries as bad not good, especially when their countries are replacing their population with immigrants. What happened in Ireland over the past year was heartbreaking to me, although not shocking. What was surprising was articles stating that 90%-95% of doctors in several studies would refuse to perform abortions.
Maybe being right wing and Christian has little to do with my opposition to polygamy. To be honest, I feel strongly that I believe this separately from my religious and nationalist beliefs, but I feel it's more honest to at least put this information out there rather than let someone else dictate the conversation towards religion and politics. It's deeply ingrained in my political beliefs because I act on political beliefs, but nationalists believe all sorts of views based on which nation they come from. Religion of course being interpreted and very few Christians actually reading things from the past. Although I believe in my religion so why should I even argue that they are separate. Even if they objectively are separate issues, I ultimately think both are important to me and to separate this is to show sign of weakness.
Europe paganism did believe in reincarnation and God(s) at a notable majority. I'm not sure what is meant by paganism, but often people are referring to pre-Christian Europe. There is double speak in historical record about paganism to an extent so I won't act like this is undebatable. You can argue Christians or fellow other pagan groups destroyed the integrity of their history. However, I don't see good evidence of it being an atheistic thing in any way and even using paganism more broadly. Wiccans, Thelma, modern day Satanism to me are very LARPy and to me a byproduct of nihilism's influence over society. Pantheism and Unitarian Universalists just seem like ridiculous people when I meet them in person most are drugged up and probably not thinking normal. They aren't pagan in any sense of its original meaning. Hinduism is a large religion and probably too mainstream to be pagan.
So no, you aren't becoming pagan. You are becoming degenerate and LARPing. This hopefully will not be a long term thing and it doesn't seem sustainable looking at geopolitics so I have hopes things will change. I feel far less confident change will go towards my views which is the mere reason to express my opinions.
Last edited by teamsilent13 - on 11 August 2019
