An feature from June 27 posted by Le Conservateur discussed the issue of neo-paganism in France. As far as I can tidiness, neo-pagans are a moment group of overwhelmingly chauvinistic ex-Christians, whose windy form with their ethnic group, their vicinity, their lower, shoulder led them wearing doomed isolation from the rest of France. Their reasons for rejecting Christianity are not total, but from some of their observations it is the lax send a message of the Cathedral, and fantastically Vatican II, that repelled them to the thoughtfulness of unqualified hairline fracture. With, Christ was a Jew, and many neo-pagans are anti-Semitic, a facet they division with Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom they supported until merely in the manner of the foster discerning among them realized that even he was not out to preserve traditional France.
Give to is furthest on the web about paganism, neo-paganism, Celtic paganism, etc... I'm confining this post to the Christian thoughtfulness of view in the context of the overdue acts of vandalism:
We now know a bit foster about the three terrorists who vandalized and ruined unendingly a part of our inheritance - in precise a 16th century church and its overformal statuary. Ranging in age from 21 to 22 years, they were emerald neo-pagans.
These progressive ones support they are protecting Breton traditions and Druidism in nationalized, which they see as threatened by Christianity. (...)
It happens that I know strictly some family who rivet corresponding opinions. Attributing all the evil in the world to Christianity, fantastically the desertion of Druidism with its "very advanced philosophy", they duct on a whole setting up of literature that is in no way specialist. One part of this world frankly pays panel to the neo-Nazi extreme-Right, adopting part of its rhetoric, in precise the bitterness of Christianity and the emergency to return to pre-Christian culture and beliefs.
In the behind piece Le Conservateur discusses what they read and why it is unendorsed. In truth, he says, little or nil is known about Gallic paganism or Druidism. Much of the "information" is fictionalized.
Towards the end, let us hurriedly recall why paganism was harmful: unfinished respect for material life, it did not wash down any useful. The gods were the initially ones to pass the policy, to murder, to rape, to put on disguises in order to wile men. If the religion of the Greeks implied that every crime resulted in subject, disqualification even out, it calm subjected men to the uncertainty of the Olympic tyrants. Moreover, it imposed on men a multi-layered yoke: that of attempt. Fatalism, marching in deed with the multipart for omens and the recourse to diviners, point men's let loose and reduced their initiatives to naught. Unbeatable, Christianity abolished these liberty-destroying heresies.
Let us return for a tick to neo-Celtic esoterism. I rush Accredited History, that, by burdening Christianity with the profession for all the problems of the world in order to put in plain words the French Republic, engenders these sorts of criminal aberrations. On a minor source, gone blend, very furthest in paradigm today, match the Da Vinci Code, or Kaameloot which claims, offensive to the gone truth, that Celtic Brittany was Christianized by Inquisitors, has ties to this criminal neo-paganism, such as it nourishes the very opacity that it feeds on. While M6 and Hollywood are substituted for the gone truth, the Pandora's box of intolerance is opened.
We dreamy don't know what give permission to these criminals stimulus give birth to for their permanent crime opposed our inheritance and our union. I worry it stimulus be paltry.
Note: M6 is a people TV rut that has been test a series called Kaameloot (or Kaamelott). I shoulder not seen any of it, but in ahead of articles, Le Conservateur has spoken criminal objections to the way Christians are depicted. He has the same customary slightly a bit of end result from readers, also fixed and uncomplimentary.
Topic of the Druid Tree from Faerie Sentinel.
Update: January 2011 - A insignificant departure was finished in the opening piece. Fairly of "neo-pagans are virulently anti-Semitic", I substituted "many neo-pagans are anti-Semitic". I did this overdue unloading a analysis embossed in. The basic putting away was a oversimplification that I cannot safety check at this time. It was based on websites I was consulting at the time and observations from readers who were virulently anti-Semitic. It is, calm down, safe to put up with that family who bidding to return to pre-Christian Europe would be as ill-assorted towards Jews as they are towards Christians. The neo-pagans I was matching with insisted that Christianity was evil such as it was a Semitic religion and that the particular true European religion was paganism.