I am going to delve into a controversial topic and if you aren't interested in hearing my view on why Christianity destroyed the West don't read it.

What needs to be understood about religion and spirituality, is that it is the underlying spirit of the religion which shapes the minds of the people of a civilization, it's the spirit of a religion which determines the values and that the way in which the populous, extending to the upper echelons of power think, determines the path a civilization and a race, a people will take. What needs to be first understood about Christianity is what it replaced, what it destroyed and why what it destroyed was so crucial. Before Christianity Europe's spiritual world was pagan in nature, each ethnic group had their own gods and spirits they worshiped, they had a connection to the land, the streams, the lakes and forests and the spirit world and their blood, their soil, their people, were intrinsically linked, to be a Celt, German, Roman, Greek, Slav, etc. was to worship the gods of your people and your ancestors, no one who was not of your tribe could ever become a member of your tribe for they did/do not have any ties to the tribal ancestors and gods. In this world, your people, your tribe, you family was your morality, men fought and died not for ideals like capitalism or communism, freedom or control, but for the blood of their people, nationalism was never in question.

Christianity originated with a different tribe, a very, very different tribe, in fact a different race altogether, a Semitic race, originally Christianity was intended to be a religion by and for the Jews, however, following the death of the Christian prophet. His disciples found very little support among the Jewish population and thus chose to spread his cult's beliefs to the poor gentiles, promising salvation so long as they worship the Jews and their God and submit to the Jewish race. The religion held the belief that the sole purpose of life was eternal salvation, to attain entrance to the afterlife and to do this you must live as piously as possible, piously described as living a meek and humble life, never aspiring to greatness and abandoning notions of blood and soil, abandoning your people and race and devoting your existence purely to spreading the "message of god" to help others attain entrance to heaven, no matter if friend or foe, rich or poor, Jew or gentile, the religion was at it's core anti-Nationalist, universalist, Marxist, cucked and globalist. Christianity spread quickly through the lower classes of society however, those that had been outcast from society and quickly spread across the Roman Empire and much of the middle-east and India and from there it would start to poison and destroy Europe and every other nation it touched...

The connection the people once had to their land, to their gods and ancestors was severed, nationalism was destroyed and replaced by the unity and passiveness that Christianity brought, under Constantine and his successors the rebellious non-Roman popularous was tamed and the European population subdued, the ancient hierarchical fascist society of Europe that was based on nationalism began to be stripped away and the beginnings of Feudal society began to emerge, no longer were people loyal to their gods and ancestors but to their King and clergy. For the next 1000 years things would remain much the same, the worst parts of Christianity, the inherently Marxist values subdued in part by the Catholic church and the Kings of Europe but that was all about to change...

In the sixteenth century the fabric of European society began to fall apart as the Church's power vanished, technological progress had allowed for the explosion in learning and the widespread availability of books through the printing press and with it the Church could no longer have control over the religious teachings of Europe. The Protestant reformation would bring with it the beginning of a new age for Europe, the inherently bad and dangerous parts of Christianity which had been repressed since the time of Constantine were now brought back into the light, the Marxist, egalitarian, materialistic values Christianity teaches were spread though-out European society. The cumulation of this was the enlightenment in which the final death nail for Europe would emerge... With the fall of the (Catholic) Church from power only the aristocracy remained to contain the spread of another poison which had been allowed to fester in Europe, International Jewry... The Enlightenment philosophers and clergy spread the idea that all men are created equal, the idea that all men had free will and that the rule of the aristocracy was oppressive to the masses...

The International Jew had their origins in the Jewish diaspora following the burning of the last temple of Jerusalem, they had spread to every corner of the Roman and Persian (Parthian and Sassanian) Empires and following the collapse of both into Northern Europe, Khazaria and the Islamic Caliphates. The International Jew would find it in a unique position in history, the teachings of Christianity forbade the practice of usury, however, the Jews had no such laws against usury and so the Jew saw an opportunity to enrich themselves and took it. The Jews would endure persecution for their behavior however and were forced out of countries many, many times throughout their history, however one country in particular gave them refuge, the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, and from their they would spread their financial Empire across Europe...

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