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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
2. Not all Europeans are IE-speakers. Most of them are, though. But if you talk of blood, most of Europeans simply aren't IE, especially Westerners like me.
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Moreover, there is nothing like Indo-European by blood. Language families do not have to be related to genetic kinship of the populations.
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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
You claim IE origins of everything that is more evolved than the Stone Age, you call monotheism an "inferior semitic concept"... but you are not a Nutzi.
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We all know what Christianism owes to Greek Logos.
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Monotheism is the most natural human thinking, while polytheism is a sign of decadence. Many so-called "primitive peoples" around the world have monotheism, without ever having came in contact with either Christianity, Islam or Judaism. Serious Greek philosophers (those of pre-Christian times) shunned the primitive polytheism of the Hellenic religion. Much of the philosophical systems of the antiquity points in direction of monotheism - although they have not heard of anything like the Hebrews. Even if they heard about them, they despised them, considering Hellenism as civilization and everything else as barbarity. The concepts of those philosophers were precursors of the Christian thought, they came in possession of
semina veritatis ("seeds of truth"), as the Christian saint and martyr of Justin said. They acquired knowledge of particles of truth, not of the whole truth. Through their own reasoning, instead through pure revelation. That is because even after the fall man did not lose every ability to know God, but always very imperfectly, of course. Before the reveletion.
Thomas Aquinas said:
Quodcumque verum a quocumque dicitur, a Spiritu Sancto est. ("Whatever true anyone says, it comes from the Holy Spirit.") It means that even if a non-Christian says something truthful, it is not to be rejected or ignored by Christians. That was the very foundation upon rested the marriage between the Christian faith and the philosophy.
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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
About Northern paganism, sorry, but we don't know much of it, as Northerners didn't wrote before Wulfila (who wasn't Germanic, btw) translated the Bible in Gothic language.
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We owe almost all of our knowledge about the Old Germanic paganism due to the work of...Christian monks, who diligently transcribed the ancient texts, lest they be lost.