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Entry: Is There Conservatism Beyond Christianity? (or how to book a mental vacation in Athens or Valhalla) Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/is_there_conservatism_beyond_christianity_or_how_to_book_a_mental_vacation#23258 Post contents: Heartless pagans? Why would we have that idead? Would it have to do with all those babies left to die in junkyards because they were defective, or just female? Would it have to do with the gladiator games? Would it have to do with economies built on slave labor? (Ask yourself why it is only in Christianity that slavery was abolished) Would it have to do with the hostility to the disabled? Or with anyone who was too weak in their eyes? Would it have to do with human sacrifice? I notice that when they talk about paganism they talk about the Greek and Roman gods. No one remembers Baal Moloch and the children burned alive there? Or the Aztec pantheon and the torn hearts (followed by cannibalism). There is a lot of ground covered in paganism, and you cannot pick and choose those pleasant elements only. TAke a gander at Frazer's "Golden Bough" to get a feel of what real paganism was like. The intellectual, high-minded, paganism of the classics was a too rarified elitist phenomenon. The real paganism was as tacky as popular Christianity, but far more ruthless in dealing with the weak and helpless. Sent at: 2008 08 21