>>149970621
All European Pagan religions are just a bastardized version of worshiping God. They all deviate from the religion of the first Indo-Europeans which revered the almighty Sky Father of the Heavens which created everything. Zeus, Odin, or whatever other wised patriarch cheif god you can think off from Ireland to Russia is the same fucking shit when you look at the base concept. I mean just look at Germanic paganism, if you ignore it being a violent bloodletting cult of warmongers who practice human sacrifice it shares many concepts with Christianity. Such as Valhalla and Hel (Heaven and Hell), Valkyries are very similar to Angels and literally take warriors to Heaven/Valhalla. Odin/Woden hanging himself on the world tree and stabbing himself on his own spear, basically killing himself to obtain forbidden knowledge draws parallels to both Christ's sacrifice but also the forbidden fruit. Odin did not do what he did to save humanity or anything noble, he did it for his own selfish reasons to gain more knowledge, much like Adam and Eve did with the tree's fruit in the garden. Also the word serpent that coils the world tree and the lucifer in snake form hanging around the tree of the forbidden fruit is another parallel. The point is there are frankly too many similarities to make it a coincidence in my opinion. Even though they aren't indo-european, whatever those ancient jews were smoking was the grounds for a return to less heathen-y worship. Which got perfected with Christ. Why God chose the Levant to start propagating a return to proper worship of him, I don't know. Honestly all this boils down to some people being pissy the tales of the Bible mainly took place in the Levant and Middle East, and not Northern Europe. In the alternate reality where God put his focus on Northern Europe and Christ was born in Denmark or something, so many larpagans would be dickridding the religion so damn much. It's just the Hebrew origins that gives some people the ick.