Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 04/23/2010 4:51:25 AM PDT by Jormungandr
I see the whole non-christian forum act as an off-topic for denunciations Christian sects make on others, and news of general interest... For Christians.
There is a significant Heathen Libertarian and Conservative community. We're being spammed out!
I do agree that the Mormon bashing is really overdone. I don't see anything in JimRob's FR founding documents that indicate that this is in any way intended to be an anti-Mormon site.
BTW, I'm not a Mormon. I'm a non believer too, but one who is not offended by any other religion (except I***m).
I guess there really is a non-Christian forum here. Who knew?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
There is no “non-Christian” forum on Free Republic.
There is a “religion forum” and an open “news forum”.
If you wish to cut Christians out of discussions on Free Republic, then you’d have to cut out a huge percentage of conservatives, who believe that one set of values that MUST be CONSERVED is honest, open religious participation in all affairs political or otherwise.
You’d also have to cut the Founders out of discussion on Free Republic, since they, too, relied on their religious faith to inform their political opinions. That’s obvious in the Declaration of Independence that says we are “endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights...”
I see you went to publik skewl.
I was referring to the Non-Christian topic, which IS a sub-topic on the religion forum. The majority of threads that appear on the Non-Christian topic are related to Christianity.
I’ve later seen that threads routinely appear under various Topics (this thread included). So my question was irrelevant I’m sorry.
I’ve already apologized. Must I do it again?
There seems to be quite a few of us that weren't aware of it. Now that the cat is out of the bag, I wonder if there will be even more "spamming".
Hey, if you want to start a “Heathen Libertarian” caucus there’s nothing stopping you. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if many of the caucus members were zotted for other reasons.
Before you leave, perhaps you could enlighten us in to what you believe a Heathen Libertarian Christian would believe. Heathens are not atheists, but are generally people who worship gods that are not in the Judeo-Christian tradition. So if you claim there is, in fact, a "Heathen Libertarian and Conservative community", I don't think I've ever met one, much less visited their communities.
So where is this community and what do they believe in?
Do they have Holy Scriptures?
Do they have a systematic theology?
This could be an interesting thread.
Do they have Holy Scriptures?
Do they have a systematic theology?
This could be an interesting thread.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that they smoke A LOT of pot.
Don’t read it! Case closed.
I guess it would be hard to spam a thread or a topic if you didn’t know it existed.
Well, before I’m zotted...
Heathens are not Christians, they’re polytheists and follow the gods of their tribe. The traditional religion of their folks.
Heathenry doesn’t have Scriptures. It has lore: From religious texts, to epics of the better folks of their tribe, to ancient texts dealing with how religious worship was originally performed.
Its focus is orthopraxy, not orthodoxy. Do the rites well more than “think the good dogmas”.
As for their libertarian community, the vast majority of Heathens I’ve met were libertarian.
The basic moral code is based on self-reliance, industriousness, loyalty to gods, tribe, family and friends, hospitality, honor and courage.
It doesn’t have a purity code or a concept of “sin”. Some things piss the Gods off, but that’s because they’re traitorous or cowardly, not because they are “impure”.
That moral outlook makes most Heathens predisposed towards libertarian thinking: “Do your own thing, don’t rub it in my face, don’t disrupt my folks and we’ll be fine.” and sorta conservative positions in economics.
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I see, to which "tribe" do you belong and who are your "gods"?
Heathenry doesn’t have Scriptures. It has lore: From religious texts, to epics of the better folks of their tribe, to ancient texts dealing with how religious worship was originally performed.
Do any of these ancient texts have names?
As for their libertarian community, the vast majority of Heathens I’ve met were libertarian.
That's not at all surprising.
It doesn’t have a purity code or a concept of “sin”. Some things piss the Gods off, but that’s because they’re traitorous or cowardly, not because they are “impure”.
Do most Heathen Libertarians live in their parents' basements?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Boy, that didn’t take long. He/she really ticked off the ‘God’ of FR... :>)
I know that in South America the traditional religions practiced there included such mundane rituals as human sacrifice. Does the traditional religion of your folks include such rituals?
That moral outlook makes most Heathens predisposed towards libertarian thinking: “Do your own thing, don’t rub it in my face, don’t disrupt my folks and we’ll be fine.” and sorta conservative positions in economics.
I think you are a bit naive about historical heathenism. Most heathen communities were socialistic and paternalistic and the penalty for breaking with the traditions of the paternalistic leaders was, more often than not, execution or exile. Now can you name a historical heathenistic culture that was "Libertarian" and not socialistic or totalitarian?
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