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This is probably the dumbest article I've ever read on religion.

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Why are you calling yourself "Ancestral Vril" while being opposed to actual ancestral religion and instead worshipping the King of the Jews? Why don't you rename yourself "Hebrew Vril" instead? This post is severely lacking in actual accurate characterizations. Atheism has been proven time and time again to be a high-IQ religion in the west. Smart people are disproportionately Atheist. This doesn't mean atheism is right, in fact I think atheism is quite ridiculous, but maybe consider renaming your post to "top 5 wrong religions", since that's obviously what you mean. And in that circumstance, it's a bit alarming that you omit the Talmudic Judaism you claim to be strongly against.

The New Age religious movement has very little to actually do with Hinduism. Imagine if someone pointed to a non-denominational church -- or better yet a Unitarian Universalist -- with a lesbian pastor wearing rainbow clerical scarf, and said "Christianity is the mother religion of this". That's what you sound like. Also, Hinduism does not have "a few dozen gods". It is ultimately monotheistic, but like other IE Paganism it promotes the worship of the gods as a means of worshipping the ultimate God, who depending on the sect is either Krishna, Shiva, or Vishnu (there are some other candidates in more minor sects as well). Both Hindu and Pagan morality originates from a notion of objective good stored within the godhead, with the mission of human beings as the act of maintaining the cosmic order established by the gods. Social hierarchy, gender roles, hospitality, keeping to oaths, moral piety, all of these are acts within he cosmic order. It is very retarded for you to deny this because several Church doctors literally adopted Pagan moral arguments for morality themselves. Indians are no more rapacious, smelly, and violent than Africans, who are largely Christian. It is because that country has a national IQ of 76. If an Indian became Christian, he wouldn't magically transform into a White man with brown skin.

>First, might is right. Those with strength and wealth have the ultimate say and thus hold the truth

This is not at all a tenet of Paganism, but this is not what "might is right" means. "right" in this context means, like, allotted privilege. Not factual statement.

>We do what is natural, which is a fallacy

This is a reddit fallacy, not an actual rigorous logical fallacy.

>Norse theology begins with a void that separates a land of fire and the other of ice.

Already wrong. The void, gunningagap, is surrounded by an icy rind. This is just poetic speech, though. It's the poetic edda, after all. Gunningagap is equivalent to the Buddhist notion of Sunyata, the unqualified absolute. Wotan and the gods are the demiurgic, formal force of reality, while the titans and monsters represent the cthonic, dynamic, and degenerative. The prima materia, so to speak. It is a metaphysical cosmogony, not a physical cosmogony, so comparing it to the big bang is like comparing genesis to actual earth history.

>Odin cannot act as the supreme moral arbiter because he was born at some point

Odin does not have to act as the supreme moral arbiter, all that matters is that we find a moral arbiter who is closest in resemblance to the ultimate reality, which is ultimately not knowable in our state of forgetfulness. Pagans do somewhat believe that they exist in a fallen state, but it is more that we live in a time of ignorance and immorality.

>Neopaganism in 2024 is largely a Hollywood fantasy. Most of its adherents are overweight consumers who are easily drawn by pretty aesthetics such as Viking tattoos, runes, and depictions of Odin.

This is only true in America, but I do agree that in many cases this is true. These people are not Pagans, they are just clowns. But that does not erase the existence of more intellectually invested Pagans.

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