Jahnu
2018-10-14 04:28:17 UTC
Christians complain a lot about the "persecutions" they allegedly
suffered in ancient Rome. Given that they were trying to destroy the
heathen spiritual values that had made Rome great in the first place,
it is not surprising that the heathens tried to defend themselves.
The Christian apologists also try to imply that heathenism somehow
just melted away before the Christian religion, as if the heathens
somehow saw "the error of their ways" and leapt to accept the
Christian god as soon as he was offered to them. What the Christians
don't like to remember is the very real persecution they inflicted, as
soon as they could, on heathens who chose to retain the faith of their
forebears.
Here is just a small sample of the atrocities that led to the
Christian destruction of heathen Europe:
Roman Empire
315 CE. Christianity becomes legal. From now on Pagan temples are
increasingly destroyed by Christian mobs. Some famous temples that are
ruined include the Sanctuary of Æsculapius, the Temple of Aphrodite in
Lebanon, the Heliopolis, the Temple of Serapis in Egypt, and many
others. Christian priests such as Cyril of Heliopolis and Mark of
Arethusa become renowned as "temple destroyers" . Pagan priests are
increasingly murdered, together with their heathen congregations.
356 CE. Pagan services are punishable by death. The Christian Emperor
Theodosius even murders children caught playing with the remains of
heathen statues. Pagan philosophers are cruelly murdered. Perhaps the
most revered heathen martyr is Hypatia of Alexandria, daughter of
Theon the mathematician. Urged on by St Cyril of Alexandria, a mob of
Christian fanatics dragged the world-famous philosopher from her
chariot, stripped her naked, hauled her to the church, and there
murdered her by scraping the flesh from her bones with sharp oyster
shells. Her mortal remains were then burned before the screaming
Christian hordes.
The slaughter of the Saxons
c. 550 CE. Germanic beliefs are outlawed in the Frankish kingdom. All
heathen temples and symbols are ordered to be destroyed. Heathen
songs, dances and holidays forbidden under pain of extreme punishment.
719 CE. Frankish Christian missionaries ravage Frisia with fire and
sword. January 774 CE. Charlemagne vows to convert the Saxons, or,
failing that, to wipe them out. 780 CE. Charlemagne decrees the death
penalty for all who fail to be baptised, who fail to keep Christian
festivals, who cremate their dead, who are hostile toward Christians,
etc etc.
782 CE. 4,500 Saxon nobles are beheaded in one day at Verden on the
Aller for refusing to convert. 804 CE. The last heathen resistance in
Saxony is put down. In thirty years of genocide, from 774 to 804, two
thirds of the Saxons have been killed.
The British Isles
597 CE. The Augustinian mission arrives in Kent. Its aim is to convert
heathen kings, who will then force the new religion on their
followers. The situation is confusing, because kings seldom live to a
great age, and their successors often repudiate the alien faith. 616
CE. Athelfrith, heathen king of Northumbria, defeats a huge Christian
crusade at Chester. 617 CE. Athelfrith slain at battle of River Idle.
His neurotic rival Edwin becomes king, and is subsequently converted
to Christianity, forcing his subjects to give up their old faith. 653
CE. King Sigibert foists Christianity on heathen Essex. 654 CE. Penda
of Mercia, the last great heathen Anglo-Saxon king, is slain by
Christians at the battle of Winwæd. Only Sussex and the Isle of Wight
hold out (for a short time) against Christianity. Late 8th century
onwards. Heathen Scandinavians settle all parts of British Isles.
1066 CE onwards. William the Conquerer is still passing laws against
paganism. Its last redoubt, in practice if not in theory, is the
Border counties which form a buffer between England and Scotland. 1603
CE. James VI of Scotland becomes also James I of England. He crushes
the Borderers and destroys their separate culture.
Scandinavia
994 CE. Olaf Tryggvason adopts Christianity in exchange for accepting
a vast amount of protection money from the English. Through a brutal
campaign that tolerates no opposition he "converts" Norway to
Christianity. With Norway fall Shetland, the Orkneys and the Faroes.
c.1000 CE. Olaf holds prominent Icelandic pagans hostage and demands
that Iceland accept the new religion. Iceland falls. After 1000 CE. On
the death of Olaf Norway returns gladly to paganism. 1016 CE. Olaf the
Stout, later called St Olaf, seizes the throne of Norway. He murders,
blinds and maims heathens. Heathen temples are ruthlessly robbed and
destroyed. Twelfth century CE. The great temple at Uppsala in Sweden
is destroyed by Christian fanatics.
Elsewhere It is impossible to estimate the numbers of Eastern
Europeans murdered by crusading Christians. The Teutonic Knights, for
instance, conquered heathen Prussia in 1226. All russians who refused
to convert to Christianity were murdered. The Lithuanians were a
heathen tribe who were attacked by the Teutonic Knights throughout the
13th century.
They held out successfully, with the help of religious refugees from
Prussia and Lettonia, until a monarchy emerged. King Mindaugas
betrayed the ancestral religion of his subjects in 1251, after which
Lithuania was forcibly converted to Christianity. It is equally
impossible to estimate the numbers of pagans murdered in the New World
by Christians. Columbus planted a cross wherever he went, vowing to
"do all the mischief that we can" to natives who refused to convert.
The Christians brought with them skills of torture that had been
refined on their own people in Europe for hundreds of years. One
Indian chief, Hatuey, fled with his people but was captured and burned
alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged
him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven,
rather than descend into hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where
the Christians went, he would rather go to hell." (Source: D.
Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford University Press 1992.)
That same sentiment must have been expressed time after time in Europe
in the period when Odinists were offered a choice between converting
to Christianity or being tortured, maimed and killed. The 4,500 Saxon
nobles callously slaughtered by the Christian fanatic Charlemagne on
one day in 782 must have had similar thoughts. The Norse Sagas record
occasions when Christians tortured entire Odinist families in the hope
of forcing parents to convert, thereby sparing their children further
pain. Sometimes the children were stronger than their parents, urging
them not to yield and thereby bring disgrace on their ancestors.
Conclusion It is clear that Christianity prevailed over European
heathenism solely because Christians resorted to torture, murder, and
other clear breaches of the law that applied in those times, while the
heathens upheld the prevailing "rules of engagement" that they
considered to be honourable.
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suffered in ancient Rome. Given that they were trying to destroy the
heathen spiritual values that had made Rome great in the first place,
it is not surprising that the heathens tried to defend themselves.
The Christian apologists also try to imply that heathenism somehow
just melted away before the Christian religion, as if the heathens
somehow saw "the error of their ways" and leapt to accept the
Christian god as soon as he was offered to them. What the Christians
don't like to remember is the very real persecution they inflicted, as
soon as they could, on heathens who chose to retain the faith of their
forebears.
Here is just a small sample of the atrocities that led to the
Christian destruction of heathen Europe:
Roman Empire
315 CE. Christianity becomes legal. From now on Pagan temples are
increasingly destroyed by Christian mobs. Some famous temples that are
ruined include the Sanctuary of Æsculapius, the Temple of Aphrodite in
Lebanon, the Heliopolis, the Temple of Serapis in Egypt, and many
others. Christian priests such as Cyril of Heliopolis and Mark of
Arethusa become renowned as "temple destroyers" . Pagan priests are
increasingly murdered, together with their heathen congregations.
356 CE. Pagan services are punishable by death. The Christian Emperor
Theodosius even murders children caught playing with the remains of
heathen statues. Pagan philosophers are cruelly murdered. Perhaps the
most revered heathen martyr is Hypatia of Alexandria, daughter of
Theon the mathematician. Urged on by St Cyril of Alexandria, a mob of
Christian fanatics dragged the world-famous philosopher from her
chariot, stripped her naked, hauled her to the church, and there
murdered her by scraping the flesh from her bones with sharp oyster
shells. Her mortal remains were then burned before the screaming
Christian hordes.
The slaughter of the Saxons
c. 550 CE. Germanic beliefs are outlawed in the Frankish kingdom. All
heathen temples and symbols are ordered to be destroyed. Heathen
songs, dances and holidays forbidden under pain of extreme punishment.
719 CE. Frankish Christian missionaries ravage Frisia with fire and
sword. January 774 CE. Charlemagne vows to convert the Saxons, or,
failing that, to wipe them out. 780 CE. Charlemagne decrees the death
penalty for all who fail to be baptised, who fail to keep Christian
festivals, who cremate their dead, who are hostile toward Christians,
etc etc.
782 CE. 4,500 Saxon nobles are beheaded in one day at Verden on the
Aller for refusing to convert. 804 CE. The last heathen resistance in
Saxony is put down. In thirty years of genocide, from 774 to 804, two
thirds of the Saxons have been killed.
The British Isles
597 CE. The Augustinian mission arrives in Kent. Its aim is to convert
heathen kings, who will then force the new religion on their
followers. The situation is confusing, because kings seldom live to a
great age, and their successors often repudiate the alien faith. 616
CE. Athelfrith, heathen king of Northumbria, defeats a huge Christian
crusade at Chester. 617 CE. Athelfrith slain at battle of River Idle.
His neurotic rival Edwin becomes king, and is subsequently converted
to Christianity, forcing his subjects to give up their old faith. 653
CE. King Sigibert foists Christianity on heathen Essex. 654 CE. Penda
of Mercia, the last great heathen Anglo-Saxon king, is slain by
Christians at the battle of Winwæd. Only Sussex and the Isle of Wight
hold out (for a short time) against Christianity. Late 8th century
onwards. Heathen Scandinavians settle all parts of British Isles.
1066 CE onwards. William the Conquerer is still passing laws against
paganism. Its last redoubt, in practice if not in theory, is the
Border counties which form a buffer between England and Scotland. 1603
CE. James VI of Scotland becomes also James I of England. He crushes
the Borderers and destroys their separate culture.
Scandinavia
994 CE. Olaf Tryggvason adopts Christianity in exchange for accepting
a vast amount of protection money from the English. Through a brutal
campaign that tolerates no opposition he "converts" Norway to
Christianity. With Norway fall Shetland, the Orkneys and the Faroes.
c.1000 CE. Olaf holds prominent Icelandic pagans hostage and demands
that Iceland accept the new religion. Iceland falls. After 1000 CE. On
the death of Olaf Norway returns gladly to paganism. 1016 CE. Olaf the
Stout, later called St Olaf, seizes the throne of Norway. He murders,
blinds and maims heathens. Heathen temples are ruthlessly robbed and
destroyed. Twelfth century CE. The great temple at Uppsala in Sweden
is destroyed by Christian fanatics.
Elsewhere It is impossible to estimate the numbers of Eastern
Europeans murdered by crusading Christians. The Teutonic Knights, for
instance, conquered heathen Prussia in 1226. All russians who refused
to convert to Christianity were murdered. The Lithuanians were a
heathen tribe who were attacked by the Teutonic Knights throughout the
13th century.
They held out successfully, with the help of religious refugees from
Prussia and Lettonia, until a monarchy emerged. King Mindaugas
betrayed the ancestral religion of his subjects in 1251, after which
Lithuania was forcibly converted to Christianity. It is equally
impossible to estimate the numbers of pagans murdered in the New World
by Christians. Columbus planted a cross wherever he went, vowing to
"do all the mischief that we can" to natives who refused to convert.
The Christians brought with them skills of torture that had been
refined on their own people in Europe for hundreds of years. One
Indian chief, Hatuey, fled with his people but was captured and burned
alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged
him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven,
rather than descend into hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where
the Christians went, he would rather go to hell." (Source: D.
Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford University Press 1992.)
That same sentiment must have been expressed time after time in Europe
in the period when Odinists were offered a choice between converting
to Christianity or being tortured, maimed and killed. The 4,500 Saxon
nobles callously slaughtered by the Christian fanatic Charlemagne on
one day in 782 must have had similar thoughts. The Norse Sagas record
occasions when Christians tortured entire Odinist families in the hope
of forcing parents to convert, thereby sparing their children further
pain. Sometimes the children were stronger than their parents, urging
them not to yield and thereby bring disgrace on their ancestors.
Conclusion It is clear that Christianity prevailed over European
heathenism solely because Christians resorted to torture, murder, and
other clear breaches of the law that applied in those times, while the
heathens upheld the prevailing "rules of engagement" that they
considered to be honourable.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jahnudvip?feature=watch
https://picasaweb.google.com/113672947796865733014/Jahnu
http://www.touchtalent.com//artist/118705/jahnu-das