u/BasileusTonHellenon

Btw there is no evidence that early Christians ever saw hieroglyphs as demonic. No idea where this guy got that from.

Also by the time the Abbasids conquered Egypt, nobody could read hieroglyphs anymore. So I’m not sure how you can forbid people from reading something that they can’t even read or understand to begin with.

>Buddha

Not born of a virgin and his birth had nothing to do with the Holy Spirit or even any being vaguely similar.

>Osiris

First off, the Egyptian underworld doesn’t correspond with Hell. Second, Osiris only resurrected for 15 minutes before dying again. From this point onward, he forever resides in the underworld which he rules.

>Zarathustra

Pretty sure he lived in mountainous Iran, not a desert.

They are nothing more than new age cultists whose beliefs and practices stem from 19th century conmen trying to reconstruct ancient religions based on secondhand and thirdhand accounts. They have no real traditions and it’s clear that deep down they don’t genuinely believe in the gods they claim to worship. It’s all cosplay and the truth is that anyone who claims to be pagan is a LARPer because real paganism died centuries ago. A tradition is only a tradition if it's kept alive and the pagan traditions have ceased. Neopagans do not come from some “unbroken line of secret practitioners,” they are just larping as followers of a dead religion. They did not inherit their beliefs from any previous generation.

None of them even understand the dead religions they claim to practice. For example, animal sacrifice was the norm among historical pagans yet I don’t see any neopagan sacrificing goats to Thor. There’s also the fact that pagan religions are not well-preserved enough to make a “revival” even look authentic, so neopagan practices are mostly made up. Because of this it’s almost impossible to find any scholarly information on pagan religions on the internet because it’s so infested with neopagan nonsense. The neopagan understanding of pagan mythology is terrible too as they get their information not from the original sources, but from pop culture slop like Marvel, God of War, Percy Jackson, etc.

Most neopagans don’t even come from the ethnicities who practiced these religions. For example, most “Hellenists” are usually Americans or Canadians with zero ties to anything Greek whatsoever and they ignore the fact that the Ancient Greeks willingly abandoned paganism in favor of Christianity because guess what, Hellenic paganism was complete garbage compared to Christianity. Hellenic pagans exalted statues of human beings as gods, brutally murdered and tortured animals as sacrifices to appease said gods, and genuinely believed oracles could predict the future.

Neopagans also tend to downplay or ignore the implications of paganism being wiped out. Historical pagans believed their gods would grant them victory yet they lost every single military encounter against Christians. So either paganism was false from the start or pagan gods are non-interventionist beings who don’t care if people worship them or not (the latter of which would mean that there’s literally no reason to worship them to begin with). Neopagans also tend to ignore that even before the rise of Christianity, pagan societies were already moving away from polytheism and towards some form of proto-monotheism centered around a single high god with all other gods downgraded as aspects or subordinates (e.g. the cult of Sol Invictus in Rome). Aristotle’s conception of the prime mover displays monotheist tendencies and most classical Greek philosophers in general believed in a single high god whom they literally called God (with a capital G).

So tell me, why should neopagans be taken seriously?