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| Greetings. | |
| Today I want to elaborate on a perhaps controversial topic, but I think it is needed because a lot of people ask this to themselves and to me, and that is should you become a Catholic? | |
| Should you become a Christian? | |
| And this is approached from an atheist sort of viewpoint. | |
| So I'm talking about the people in Sweden, Norway, certain parts of Germany, America, where you haven't grown up with Christianity. | |
| So if you have grown up with Christianity and you're a practicing Christian and if you are part of a Christian community, I'm not saying that you should go away from it because if you can draw strength from that, by all means, I don't want to be the one trying to take that away from you. | |
| So this is if someone is without a spirituality and can basically choose. | |
| So I'm not counter-signaling Christianity for those who are already Christian. | |
| I am just saying this is my advice if you don't have any spirituality at the moment but you want to. | |
| So if you are thinking about converting to Catholicism, this is just my little heads up for you. | |
| Now first and foremost I'm the first one to recognize, correctly, identify the fact that Catholicism and Christianity, even Orthodox Christianity, extremely attractive, extremely glorious aesthetics and everything like that. | |
| It is very attractive in that sort of way. | |
| But, and this is a big, however, that we need to discuss, it is not congruent with a lot of the soul of our people. | |
| And I speak as a Norseman and this obviously applies for many other Europeans as well. | |
| If you look in the Bible, and I've done this over the last year because I've obviously been interested in it, so I don't recommend things to people without knowing what I'm talking about. | |
| So looking a bit in the Bible breaks my heart to say it, but like it's all about Israel. | |
| It's all about Jews. | |
| It's all about a completely different geography than our own. | |
| And it's so hard for me to relate to it. | |
| So my perspective was an atheist slash pagan looking in to Catholicism because I wanted to know more about it. | |
| But it is so foreign, at least for me, that I can't endorse it for anyone who is in my situation. | |
| And I'm saying this because if there is a choice between paganism, for example, or Catholicism or being an Orthodox in Sweden, I don't view it as reasonable to go with the Catholic path. | |
| And this becomes quite clear when you look deeper into it. | |
| So it looks beautiful on the outside. | |
| If you get a closer look at it, yeah, not something I can endorse. | |
| It pains me to say this. | |
| I didn't really want to do it either because I don't want any infighting either. | |
| But if we have the possibility to revive Europe, revive Sweden, for example, in a spiritual sense, the Catholic Church is not what you're looking for. | |
| I'm sorry to say this, but paganism is much more in tune with our nature. | |
| Can take such a thing as how you view time. | |
| The Norse mythology way of viewing time is cycles, which aligns perfectly well with how nature works here. | |
| You know, the year goes in cycles, whereas in the desert, it's just an endless time that goes forward. | |
| Same Christianity has that sort of view, that time is just one stretch. | |
| Whereas the Norse interpretation of time is going in cycles, which makes more sense and brings more harmony to my soul at least. | |
| And then it's a case of being subservient to a deity. | |
| It speaks more to my soul as a Faustian man to adhere to the principles of the Norse gods than it is to submit to a god that originally is from the Middle East. | |
| That's just how it is. | |
| I don't want to submit to the Christian God. | |
| I don't want to embrace the teachings of Christianity. | |
| I don't like the Bible. | |
| I don't think the Bible is a good book. | |
| So there it is. | |
| That's my thoughts on if you should become a Christian or not. | |
| Now, keep in mind, I still have great historic respect for Christianity for a lot of different reasons. | |
| But that doesn't mean that I want Christianity going forward. | |
| So the same thing, I can have a deep historic respect for the Swedish soldiers who fought against Russians, Poles and Germans. | |
| Now obviously Poland is our greatest ally in this day and age, but I still respect our Swedish soldiers who fought against these other Europeans. | |
| But that doesn't mean that I want that going forward. | |
| Same thing with Christianity. | |
| It's played a good role in European history to a certain extent. | |
| But going forward in Sweden at least, I don't want it to be Christian because the fundament of it is flawed. | |
| And I say that because reading a bit in the Bible is incongruent with at least my worldview. | |
| So I would definitely recommend a revival of paganism in especially Scandinavia. | |
| Then again, in countries such as Poland, France, Spain, Italy, I still want the Catholic Church to be strong there because it's still a powerful entity. | |
| It's still an entity that brings people together. | |
| But in the north, in basically all Protestant nations, the church has become something that is quite separated from our souls and something I cannot recommend anyone to partake in. | |
| And then someone might say that you're LARPing as a pagan. | |
| Yeah, but honestly, I would LARP even more as being a Christian. | |
| Especially if you haven't been a Christian. | |
| So for me, I'm not baptized, I'm not confirmed, I have no real connection with the Catholic Church. | |
| So for me to adapt something that I can just feel it is not for me, that if anything would be LARPing. | |
| And also, like, if you are interested in Catholicism, don't take my word for it. | |
| Investigate for yourself and ask yourself, is this the right path for me? | |
| Is this the sort of spirituality I want to adhere to? | |
| And I think at least that for many people who have, for many high thumbs guys, like me from Scandinavia especially, I would say that I don't think you will feel at home there. | |
| And here's something Survive the Jive told me when we talked about it. | |
| So I asked him, like, oh, what do you think about Christianity and Catholicism? | |
| And he held a two-hour monologue, which I listened to. | |
| And a profound thing he said there was, it makes more sense to be a Christian in a city than it does if you have access to a forest. | |
| Because a church can supply that place of contemplation and serenity. | |
| But if you already live out in the countryside, if you have a forest nearby, and I mean in Sweden, even if you live in the city, it's not far to the nearest forest. | |
| Then you already have your temple, as it were. | |
| And also, if you have a Temple of Iron, you can actively worship the teachings of Thor there. | |
| And I'm obviously not saying that Christians shouldn't also pray in the Temple of Iron. | |
| Ultimately, the spiritual struggle is secondary to the metapolitical and the cultural struggle. | |
| So that's also why I hesitated to make this video because I don't want to have any infighting between pagans and Christians because I think that's unnecessary when we have a lot of bigger fish to fry. | |
| But I'm just saying that for a pagan the nature, the forest is a more suitable temple than a church. | |
| And I say this as someone who absolutely loves churches. | |
| I absolutely do. | |
| So take it for what it is. | |
| So lastly, yet again, this video was for the people who are looking into a spirituality and they haven't already been into it. | |
| So if you are from Poland, if you are from France, if you are from certain parts of Germany, I am absolutely not saying that you should renounce Catholicism, but this is for the guys who they don't have a spirituality. | |
| And I can just say that if you're interested in Christianity, look into the teachings of it, read the Bible and see is this the religion for me? | |
| Is this a spirituality for me? | |
| Is the Holy Land in the Middle East or is it in Europe? | |
| I know full well that the Holy Land for me at least is Sweden in May. | |
| No more beautiful place to be. | |
| So that's my take on the situation. | |
| The way you view the gods, more in tune with our nature as well. | |
| Reincarnation, your being your ancestors and your becoming your offspring, your children as well. | |
| More reasonable, more scientific than believing in heaven or hell. | |
| I honestly, I can't believe in heaven or hell. | |
| I believe that your immortality is in your genes, in your genetics, and you achieve immortality via your children. | |
| And your ancestors are to a certain extent you. | |
| So that's two completely different views on life as well. | |
| And I adhered to the, in my view at least, more scientific way. | |
| So, rambling over, I hope that brought some perspective to you. | |
| Exactly. |