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It is very disturbing and frustrating to see that so much people are fighting so fiercely for their own demise..  |
It is totally disturbing. And that's another reason to point out all their flaws.
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Yes, I'm aware of that. I wanted to know about the bond between the pre-Christian religion and the ancient Swedes. Was it strong, and were the Swedes distrustful towards the Christianity in the first place (in a way that such distrust could have been transferred by the last generation of pagan Swedes to the first generation of Christian Swedes), thus creating a certain degree of alienation from the Christianity even among the Christians?
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I don't know. My own speculation is that people were happier with Catholicism than with Lutheranism, for several reasons. Catholicism wasn't so much subject to change by the whims of whoever was King at the moment. Catholicism wasn't as fiercely antipagan as Lutheranism was/is. It is a fact of history that protestants ruined many objects of art because they were "pagan" or "not orthodox" or whatever. I've seen remains that were partially restored in modern times with my own eyes. It is also a rather uncontroversial fact of history that protestantism wasn't favoured by the Swedish King on any folkish or spiritual grounds, but primarily on political and economical grounds. For example, he confiscated church gold to become rich.