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Its an interesting thought experiment. I can't see the number of "pagan right-wing allies" being large enough that reconciling them with Christianity serves any real utility, but what you write should be interesting enough.
Since Jews worship the same God as Christians but are irreconcilable with Christianity, what makes the hypothetical …
Its an interesting thought experiment. I can't see the number of "pagan right-wing allies" being large enough that reconciling them with Christianity serves any real utility, but what you write should be interesting enough.
Since Jews worship the same God as Christians but are irreconcilable with Christianity, what makes the hypothetical Pagan monotheism any more reconcilable?
It seems incredibly cynical to incorporate "morality" from unrelated sources into the religion of Pagan Monotheism and call it a unified religion. If I'm reading correctly, you have evidence of a god that was worshiped in late antiquity. You have evidence of prayers to this god.
If I was being uncharitable I would say that this is just an attempt to construct your own religion that suits you so that you don't have to join the Christian majority, not an attempt to bring together the "Pagan alt-right" with Christianity. I fail to see how this is any different from humanism just with a god tacked on.
Could anyone really worship a god that they knew left no commandments for them? This just sounds like what the people who say they worship Odin or Thor do. LARPing.
> Could anyone really worship a god that they knew left no commandments for them?
This kind of empty spiritualism is just the next step on the slide to nihilism after the attempt at secular Utopia fails.
Fr. Seraphim Rose described this process in his book *Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age*.