(urth) Thecla's "Identity"

DAVID STOCKHOFF dstockhoff at verizon.net
Wed Apr 10 11:45:39 PDT 2013



From: Ross Arlen Tieken <ross.a.tieken at gmail.com>
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>Wolfe is not a "traditional" Catholic because he does actually believe that other gods exist. The vegetarianism is complicated though--it is a mark of those who are particularly sensitive and sacrificial and is not expected for most. Remember Wolfe is from Texas. Vegetarians aren't "normal" here (in Texas), but those who have religious reasons to do so receive high respect.
>Also, I am a scholar of Neo-Paganism, and did some anthropological work in England with them for about six weeks. Their attitudes are not as simple as you recount them here; they are far more modern and dependent on modern attitudes, and far more influenced by Golden Dawn practices, which is sort of a hyper-modern ceremonial magic. On the other hand, there are those who are trying to resuscitate Anglo-Saxon or Germanic paganism, what they call Theodish beliefs or Heathenry. Their magical practice comes from casting the Runes, known as Asatru. But this group continues to attract members that are crypto-Nazi, white power, and weird Blavatskian root-race occultists. Now most of those who are a part of Heathenry are not those people, and they are still tainted with the ahistorical myth of the Christian Oppression of the Vikings, but in general they actually have a lot in common with normal folk Catholicism. Wolfe feels attracted to these people I am sure,
 as I did, but likely wished for something a little more historically grounded. In that way, he (and I) are not "traditional" Catholics, but that does not mean that we are outside orthodoxy. Catholicism subscribes to what used to be pagan ideas and attitudes; this is both acknowledged and embraced by the modern Church (having experienced the rebirth of early Church history and patristics in the 1920's and 30's.
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>Ross, I'm curious about this:
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>ahistorical myth of the Christian Oppression of the Vikings
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>I always heard it the other way around---I don't know this myth.
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