/lit/ - Literature

>>16693666
Yes, that's cute. Everyone has their "single biggest contributor to the downfall of the west," and their particular crusade. We can work with divinity even before we are deceased, it's just more difficult than reciting X incantations and sacrificing Y cuts of lamb to Jupiter. I would argue that it does not necessarily entail an absolute spiritualization of one's life, that would be an asceticism reserved only for those called to such a life. Rather, I would call it a balancing of a cloying, materialistic pragmatism with a higher telos to give such a donkey of a worldview some direction. Furthermore, atheists (which you likely are not) always say that you can be moral without being a Christian; therefore, is the downfall of the West not rather a product of some other ailment than Christianity? Decadence? Cycles of time? Don't be like those quacks who expose "one root cause of all disease," and "if you fix this one thing, you'll never get sick again!" You'd just run from the devil and happen upon his mother, most likely.

If European Christianity is primarily paganistic, and Christianity has caused the fall of the West, what does this tell us about paganism?