What was the best pagan religion?

>>72396310
>implying Hinduism and Shintoism are pagan religions

>>72396390
Everything that isn't Abrahamic is pagan t b h

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>best
>religion
Somebody had to say it

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>>72396424

>>72396310
there was no such thing as pagan religions, everyone had their own faiths.

Greek is the most generic, but I like it most of all others.

>>72396443
idgi

Greece, since none of the other's have epics as good as Homer's works.

Slavik

>>72396310
>pagan
That's rude to be honest. Adherents from these faiths/believes can also call the abrahamic adherents pagans as well.

polytheist / monotheist would be correct

>>72396639
Hindus call non-dharmic religions mleccha which literally means uncivilized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mleccha

there are people who still praise to greek gods?

>>72396666
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpNu4_TP9w

>>72396639
>>72396661
What does pagan even mean? Just not Christian?

>>72396578
Hello, Slavik, I'm Genghis.

>>72396722
>Pagans and paganism was a pejorative for the same polytheistic group, implying "inferiority".[3] Paganism has broadly connoted "religion of the peasantry",[1] and for much of its history a derogatory term.[4] Alternate terms in Christian texts for the same group was "hellene" and "gentile".[1] In and after the Middle Ages, paganism was a prejorative that was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism

>>72396738
So it just applies to any non-Abrahamic religion?

>>72396755
yes but more importantly which part of 'pejorative', 'inferiority', 'religion of the peasantry', 'derogatory' and 'belief in false god(s)' did you not get?

It's like saying everyone else who's not a middle eastern religionist is retard.

Mr. Pajeet what do you choose? The shitting street or the loo?

>>72396863
no loo can compare even a lowly designated street not even the fancy Japanese one.

>>72396505
Atheists think everything happen by accident

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finnic paganism obviously.

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Druidism

>>72396310
Esoteric Aryanism

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European paganism obviously

Pic related is Wotan (aka Odin etc.)

its really up to ones' own aesthetic preferences, or if they're ethnically indian in the case of hinduism

the reason why they got mostly abandoned was because people forgot to just enjoy life what with all the violent crusades, inquisitions, and otherwise forced conversions

Tengrism

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Norse

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The best pagan religion is the one of your people
Each to his own

>>72397736
that explains you
check mate theist

>>72396310

Shinto folk tales are fucking weird

Its like a modern Hentai manga turned into a mythology

But I like Shinto shrines. Nice nature places to chill. I feel connected to spirit

Religion is for the sheeple, so around 98% of the population.

Only dumb people need religion and atheism(science based religion)
That's why it's so easy to push the new ideas, degenerate the society, turn it all around and make people die for interests of another man. Majority of people don't understand anything and don't know what the hell is really going on. They just work, shit, eat, sleep and fuck like mindless beasts,

Average human is simply stupid.

>>72401037
Oh and they like to be told what to do.

It's really obvious, but it has to be mentioned.

>>72397820
WE

>>72396310
Non Christian that got shit done? I mean I like a Wednesday and Thursday and Fridays are spot on.
Can't do with out Christmas and the Holly king.
Halloween Samhain all souls

Some offshoots of hellenic paganism in europe was actually quiete close to hinduism. Pythagoreans were vegetarians, beliefed in reincarnation and prayed to an indoeuropean pantheon.

>>72396390
After abrahamic defintion they are bagans.

>>72396661
What is the definition of a dharmic religion?

tengrism

>>72401630
Indic ones. Various theistic and atheistic schools of Hindu including Jain, Buddhist.

>>72398187
What does it mean?

Baltic

>>72401831
What do you mean?

>>72401788
>Indic

So from india? Its a purely geographical term and if ther would be a people living in siberia with a theology identical to some indian ones it wouldnt count as dharmic?

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>>72396310
>pagan

ayy lmao, time to behead some more

>>72402044
>ther would be a people living in siberia with a theology identical to some indian ones it wouldnt count as dharmic?

that's a hypothetical situation. but i agree it's not that simple. It was generally used to denote people who didn't had a vedic culture.
similar to how greeks used 'barbaros'.

Pagan is a bad swear word, it is a derivative from Latin word Paganus(Pagus) which means peasant, village people. HRE named outsiders pagans because fuck you.

>>72402110
Off yourself, Charlemagne was basically a subhuman

>>72402154
Barbaros means stuttere, as in not able to speak greek properly. They also had theories about climate making people different, which meant they thought of themselves as superiour to the northeners and deep south people because their climate was in the middle of all and thus produced the most balanced people.
The egyptians however they treated with great respect, even if some basic intercultural shitflinging was going on (Anubis was called the "barker" by the greeks afaik as they thought of animal headed gods as funny.)
Now I wonder if the indians while seeing themselves as an island of highculture in a sea of barbarians like the greeks made some exceptions too. Did you have an indian euivalent to the egyptians which was seen as foreign but all right?

>>72402282
Charlemagne was a ruthless motherfucker but he wasnt a subhuman and created something lasting by force.

>>72402306
>Did you have an indian euivalent to the egyptians which was seen as foreign but all right?
i don't think we had.. ancients definitely called Huns and Greeks as mleccha.. SEA was already Hindu so, they were practically arya themselves.

>>72402306
>The egyptians however they treated with great respect
that was an interesting tit-bit.. but didn't they speak non-greek langauge?

>>72402329
Perhaps, but his actions against the Germanic pagans are inexcusable and are enough to taint his legacy completely tbqh

>>72402367
Well, I guess if you included allready so many different people under ayras making further exceptions for outsiders seemed nonsensical.

About whichh philosophers do you learn about in school btw, I can imagine the selection to be quiet different from ours.

>>72402454
>I can imagine the selection to be quiet different from ours
on the contrary.. Indians (today) are a bunch of self-denigrating and self-loathing bunch. We know much about plato, aristotle, pythagoras, marx, freud, nietzsche etc and much less about kautilya and kanada.

do you learn about non-western philosophers in school. I believe that would be true if you major in philosophy etc.

>>72402411
Yes of course they did speak something completely foreign. The greeks still had to accept them as a cultured kind of barbaros because they could visit each other over the ocean after all and shittalking them as savages was simply not possible in face of their achievments and cultural interaction.
Herodotus who wrote about egypt for example freely admitted that some greek gods probably were first worshipped in egypt.

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>>72402282
Someone seem triggered

>>72402578
I didnt major in philosophy or went to university so I dont know about what is mentioned there, but in basic school we only talk about greeks and then anglos, french and germans from the 17-20th century with foreign philosphies being ignored.

It suprises me a lot that you do learn about western ones. Isnt the Modi government supposed to care about indian self perception? Or is it only your state maybe that has a westaboo education?

>>72402429
Yeah, saxon treatment and the eradication of their culture was pretty harsh. But kindness wasnt a virtue in the fifth century and he made highculture possible.

fenno bardic shamanism

>>72402830
>Isnt the Modi government supposed to care about indian self perception? Or is it only your state maybe that has a westaboo education?
the brit influence is too strong to get washed by one Modi.
Germany might have 'just' one Merkel, we have a whole army of them. see waht happens when Indian schools start teaching Sanskrit (http://www.firstpost.com/india/sanskrit-compulsory-in-assam-schools-when-a-dead-language-deadens-sense-and-sensibility-3320278.html)

>>72402993
Our supply of Merkels is indefinite, dont you worry about being worse in that regard. Concerning that article, I could understand if sanskrit tries to force itself on people speaking something of their own already but replacing a side language like german by it seems reasonable.
We can choose between latin, french and spanish as secundary language besides english and our own after all so this doesnt seem all to insensible. Is it mostly muslims who get pissed about such things and use left/liberal speech as a mean to deflect having to adapt to a distinctly indian thinking?

>>72403494
>dont you worry about being worse in that regard
ha.. sure m8.

>Is it mostly muslims who get pissed about such things and use left/liberal speech as a mean to deflect having to adapt to a distinctly indian thinking?
No. Muslims are just the 'object to point to'. Educated elitists Hindus mainly commies liberals. These people literally draw comparison between Modi and Hitler.

>>72403599
>Educated elitists Hindus
Was Modi a Trumplike backlash to them, or do you think he sets a steady trend their objections wont do much against?

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>>72396310
how is this even a question?

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For me, it is Native American paganism, the best pagan religion

>>72396310
Hellenism

Myself i'm a Hellenic Pythagorean

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>>72404756
I want to be raped by Quetzalcoatl

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>>72406702
this

>>72396786
But before Christianity came did the pagans refer to themselves as 'pagans'?

>>72404968
Is that a man or woman?

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Shinto is the most aesthetic religion.

The one which taught pragmatic dogmas.

>greek
Don't be incestuous.

>nordic
...

>hinduism
...

>mesomamerican
...

>egyptian
how to dispose of the dead

>japanese
...

So it's a tie between Egyptian and Greek?

They're all pretty interesting as a smorgasbord belief of a diverse people are.
My personal favourite is Greek and Roman mythology simply due to the appropriate literature accompanying it that paints an absolutely beautiful picture of the Gods and their relationships with eachother and us. The also forceful simplicity yet complexity of them, we cannot think of Hades as anything other than the God of the Underworld, yet he is a God of a lot of different features, in some stories he's a vengeful, wrathful Satan of more Abrahamic tradition and in others he's a stoic, caretaker.

After that I really like Hinduism as the absurd complexity of it from Trimurtism, Shaktism, Shaivism etc it's unlike any religion I can think of where the central God can be debated. The art depicting it is also incredibly colourful and a joy to look at.

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>>72407603
Reminds me of traditional Russian graveyards.

>>72401933
He doesn't know Germanic, Greek, Roman and Slavic paganism comes from the same source.

>>72408662
The toilet bowl?

>>72409145
Fucking gook

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>>72396310
The worship of the sacred waters, so aesthetic