The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Paganism or Christianity. Should You Become a Catholic? Aired: 2018-05-31 Duration: 09:49 === Should You Become Christian? (08:10) === [00:00:03] Greetings. [00:00:04] 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? [00:00:18] Should you become a Christian? [00:00:20] And this is approached from an atheist sort of viewpoint. [00:00:24] So I'm talking about the people in Sweden, Norway, certain parts of Germany, America, where you haven't grown up with Christianity. [00:00:33] 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. [00:00:49] So this is if someone is without a spirituality and can basically choose. [00:00:56] So I'm not counter-signaling Christianity for those who are already Christian. [00:01:00] I am just saying this is my advice if you don't have any spirituality at the moment but you want to. [00:01:06] So if you are thinking about converting to Catholicism, this is just my little heads up for you. [00:01:13] 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. [00:01:27] It is very attractive in that sort of way. [00:01:30] 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. [00:01:43] And I speak as a Norseman and this obviously applies for many other Europeans as well. [00:01:48] 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. [00:02:00] So looking a bit in the Bible breaks my heart to say it, but like it's all about Israel. [00:02:07] It's all about Jews. [00:02:09] It's all about a completely different geography than our own. [00:02:15] And it's so hard for me to relate to it. [00:02:19] So my perspective was an atheist slash pagan looking in to Catholicism because I wanted to know more about it. [00:02:28] But it is so foreign, at least for me, that I can't endorse it for anyone who is in my situation. [00:02:36] 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. [00:02:49] And this becomes quite clear when you look deeper into it. [00:02:52] So it looks beautiful on the outside. [00:02:54] If you get a closer look at it, yeah, not something I can endorse. [00:02:58] It pains me to say this. [00:03:00] I didn't really want to do it either because I don't want any infighting either. [00:03:04] 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. [00:03:15] I'm sorry to say this, but paganism is much more in tune with our nature. [00:03:20] Can take such a thing as how you view time. [00:03:22] The Norse mythology way of viewing time is cycles, which aligns perfectly well with how nature works here. [00:03:31] You know, the year goes in cycles, whereas in the desert, it's just an endless time that goes forward. [00:03:38] Same Christianity has that sort of view, that time is just one stretch. [00:03:43] Whereas the Norse interpretation of time is going in cycles, which makes more sense and brings more harmony to my soul at least. [00:03:51] And then it's a case of being subservient to a deity. [00:03:56] 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. [00:04:14] That's just how it is. [00:04:15] I don't want to submit to the Christian God. [00:04:18] I don't want to embrace the teachings of Christianity. [00:04:22] I don't like the Bible. [00:04:23] I don't think the Bible is a good book. [00:04:27] So there it is. [00:04:28] That's my thoughts on if you should become a Christian or not. [00:04:34] Now, keep in mind, I still have great historic respect for Christianity for a lot of different reasons. [00:04:41] But that doesn't mean that I want Christianity going forward. [00:04:44] So the same thing, I can have a deep historic respect for the Swedish soldiers who fought against Russians, Poles and Germans. [00:04:52] 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. [00:05:01] But that doesn't mean that I want that going forward. [00:05:04] Same thing with Christianity. [00:05:06] It's played a good role in European history to a certain extent. [00:05:11] But going forward in Sweden at least, I don't want it to be Christian because the fundament of it is flawed. [00:05:18] And I say that because reading a bit in the Bible is incongruent with at least my worldview. [00:05:25] So I would definitely recommend a revival of paganism in especially Scandinavia. [00:05:32] 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. [00:05:43] It's still an entity that brings people together. [00:05:45] 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. [00:06:01] And then someone might say that you're LARPing as a pagan. [00:06:06] Yeah, but honestly, I would LARP even more as being a Christian. [00:06:10] Especially if you haven't been a Christian. [00:06:12] So for me, I'm not baptized, I'm not confirmed, I have no real connection with the Catholic Church. [00:06:17] So for me to adapt something that I can just feel it is not for me, that if anything would be LARPing. [00:06:25] And also, like, if you are interested in Catholicism, don't take my word for it. [00:06:31] Investigate for yourself and ask yourself, is this the right path for me? [00:06:35] Is this the sort of spirituality I want to adhere to? [00:06:40] 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. [00:06:54] And here's something Survive the Jive told me when we talked about it. [00:06:58] So I asked him, like, oh, what do you think about Christianity and Catholicism? [00:07:02] And he held a two-hour monologue, which I listened to. [00:07:05] 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. [00:07:15] Because a church can supply that place of contemplation and serenity. [00:07:21] 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. [00:07:32] Then you already have your temple, as it were. [00:07:35] And also, if you have a Temple of Iron, you can actively worship the teachings of Thor there. [00:07:42] And I'm obviously not saying that Christians shouldn't also pray in the Temple of Iron. [00:07:46] Ultimately, the spiritual struggle is secondary to the metapolitical and the cultural struggle. [00:07:51] 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. [00:08:02] But I'm just saying that for a pagan the nature, the forest is a more suitable temple than a church. [00:08:10] And I say this as someone who absolutely loves churches. === Paganism vs. Christianity? (01:36) === [00:08:13] I absolutely do. [00:08:15] So take it for what it is. [00:08:17] So lastly, yet again, this video was for the people who are looking into a spirituality and they haven't already been into it. [00:08:27] 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. [00:08:39] 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? [00:08:49] Is this a spirituality for me? [00:08:51] Is the Holy Land in the Middle East or is it in Europe? [00:08:56] I know full well that the Holy Land for me at least is Sweden in May. [00:09:00] No more beautiful place to be. [00:09:02] So that's my take on the situation. [00:09:04] The way you view the gods, more in tune with our nature as well. [00:09:09] Reincarnation, your being your ancestors and your becoming your offspring, your children as well. [00:09:16] More reasonable, more scientific than believing in heaven or hell. [00:09:21] I honestly, I can't believe in heaven or hell. [00:09:24] I believe that your immortality is in your genes, in your genetics, and you achieve immortality via your children. [00:09:32] And your ancestors are to a certain extent you. [00:09:35] So that's two completely different views on life as well. [00:09:39] And I adhered to the, in my view at least, more scientific way. [00:09:43] So, rambling over, I hope that brought some perspective to you. [00:09:49] Exactly.