Are you really that weak-willed that you get swayed from your religion, supposedly a serious matter, because you like the aesthetics of another one in a very specific time period on a fictional setting? Really nigger?
>Early Christianity provided a parrallel society in a time when the Roman world was dying. This is very similar to today's left and right political movements (which are both religions if evaluated.)
Christianity only ever got relevant in Rome after Constantine, and until Theodosius came in, it basically was restricted to the Levant and the city of Rome itself. 90% as in of its territorial extension werent christian until its adoption as the state religion.
If you're talking about REALLY early christianity, that shit was for the jews, not the pagans. Pagans already had the golden principle consacreted in their moral fiber, which was Jesus' mains teaching.
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This is pretty accurate. Most christians at the time just listened to what their priest told them and assumed that was the word of Christ. Sometimes it was true, sometimes it wasn't.
That's how germanic christianity came into existance, basically priests implementing taqiya on the germans.
But let's not overly simplify things, by the low middle ages, which was the period where the knights had the most prevalence, the christians of the time werent crypto-pagans anymore.
>We saw this when Early Christian mobs defaced (Literally) Ancient Roman statues - removing their noses and carving crosses into them. You need to realize that pre-Christian European faiths all had value, each one, and the YHWH of the Bible demands you completely erase them from the face of the earth.
Well, technically that isnt what christianity is supposed to be. It's like i said, people just did whatever their priest told them, and so did iconoclasm come into existance, by some priests completely ignoring the fact that Jesus negated the old covenant and therefore adopting old testament principles where they shouldnt. It's the same deal with christian circucinsion as well.
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>In core issue is that you refuse to accept that Christianity is anything but the ugly strawman that people like Varg have propped up. You find the most subverted manifestations of the Church and bring attention to it, because you fear the real truth
Not an argument.
>It's absurd to imply that being Christian makes you non-European. Additionally the mission of the Church is both universal and particular, and its particularity can be seen in spiritualizing European values. Even the warring spirit of the Teuton became holy.
Well, yeah. Christianity is a globalist religion, it want all peoples to unite behind it, while sort of keeping their own particularities. Think what you will of that.
>Perhaps, it would depend on the tribe
Nah, it had more to do with some of the institutions rome had left for the church to maintan rather than something strictly religious.
>Fortunately we know exactly what those men believed, you should take a look at the writings of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Addressed this above. TLDR: Sort of. They believed in Jesus and YHWH, but not in the way we know nowadays. It's almost impossible to actually pinpoint their belief because of the sheer lack of disparity that probably existed between each priest in each village.
>Christianity, unlike Islam and Judaism, is transformative rather than destructive. While I think iconoclasm is not the way to express that, you can't deny that the Church didn't reparate. For every statue that was defaced we created ten more, of greater beauty than before, the sacred groves gave way to cathedrals, and so on. Islamization is usually synonymous with Arabization but Christianization on the other hand attempts to work through the world's cultures, not against them.
Addressed iconoclasm above, its an extension of my last point: people didnt actually know what was christianity and what was a relic from the old testament.
Also, cathedrals were built based off the works of architects like Vitruvius, which was a famous architect of pagan temples. The best example of this is Florence's cathedral, which is identical to a pagan temple in structure. Gothic cathedrals actually were based off the gnostic celtic christian churches, which had quite a few particularities, like adopting 666 in its geometry, imitating snake scales et cetera.