1) This turning to pre-chr*stian European paganism seems kinda Nazi to me. I thought politically correct pagans could only follow the religions of "indigenous pipples."
2) It's idiotic for people to want to "restore" ancient religion and then suddenly throw out animal sacrifice because for some reason it's "wrong." Religion defines what is right and wrong, so if you're religion tells you animal sacrifice is okay, you should believe it's okay. More evidence of our skewed modern concept of a morality differentiated from (and above) religion. (Not that I'm sorry that animals aren't going to be sacrificed to false "gxds." But when the Great and Holy Temple of Jerusalem is rebuilt, there will be no sitting in judgment on the morality of the commandments of HaShem!)
3) The Olympics are pagan enough as they are (lighting an Olympic flame in the temple of z*us, which was inaugurated by Hitler, mach shemo), and the opening ceremonies celebrating man's evolution as a "logical being" struck me as the root of today's materialist idealism (Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, etc.).
Oh well. At least now the "palaeos" can really go crazy with the heritage of "western man!"
But ultimately, people define religion, so...
Those of us who have studied the Bible, we all know and understand the concept of a sacrificial lamb. For Christians, Jesus was the final sacrifice and the letting of blood is no longer required by GOD.
NOTE: In my view, New Age liberals are idiots!
> I thought politically correct pagans could only follow the religions of "indigenous pipples."
Think again. But then, being a non-New Age pagan is virtually the antithesis of political correctness.
> It's idiotic for people to want to "restore" ancient religion and then suddenly throw out animal sacrifice because for some reason it's "wrong."
Yeah! Gimme that old-time Judeo-Christianity, where non believers, Sunday workers, adulterers and those who carve birds are stoned to death!
> lighting an Olympic flame in the temple of z*us, which was inaugurated by Hitler
Uh... what? You DO know that the modern Olymics began in, what, 1896 or thereabouts? Are we to believe that Toddler Hitler ahd somethign to do with this?