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>Love for the poor and the weak
Look at where that's gotten us. Now we have transgender victims, we need to destroy our own cultural history because they weren't weak and poor.
>Sacrifice of wives to Odin
...when did this happen? I would also point out that Abrahamism subscribes to the idea that if God commands you to murder someone, you are supposed to do so - Abraham and Isaac as one example, but for one where the human sacrifice actually happened, I'll point to Jephthath's daughter.
But anyways, the answer is "no." The literal nature of the old pagan mythologies can't be true. Sorry - we don't live in a cosmic tree of Yggradisil in the way the very ancient Germans / Norse thought, nor do the Greek gods live on top of Olympus.
On the contrary, I want to see a continuation of Neoplatonism - Abrahamism not excepted. These myths have deep embedded truths and do speak to a spiritual reality that is very much real. These entities do exist which we can access through the nous - and even if these entities are purely psychological, the power they have over people and reality is so immense that they might as well be real.
There's a lot we lost with the imposition of Christianity on the masses, and one of those is the ritualized nature of life. "The world is a stage..." And rituals are mostly theater. Even the Latin Mass and Byzantine Liturgy have a theatrical element to it - I'll even concede they are powerful theatrical performances. When one realizes this, they obtain immense potential for themselves and others.
Art, beauty, and theater is much needed in our dysteleological, postmodern, iconoclastic, dystopian nightmare world.
>Noble vs. weak
I see this as a problem with Christianity, yes. But it's far more than that, it's a huge cultural chasm between Jews and Europeans. The entire Old Testament values meekness, cleverness, and sneakiness over strength and nobility. Jacob and Esau, Joseph obtaining power in Egypt, Kind David and Bethsheba. (1/2)
