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  • Honor and Shame In Norse Society

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 18th 2020 1:02pm EST

    Very interesting. If you wanted to insult a man in pre-Christian Norse culture, you called him weak, compared him to a woman or to a slave. It was an honor-based collectivist culture.

  • Franks, Brits and Pope Gregory the Great

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 15th 2020 10:24pm EST

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  • Anglo-Saxon and Norse Paganism: Were they the Same?

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 14th 2020 6:21pm EST

    Is there any difference between the Anglo-Saxon and Norse gods? I already knew that the English days of the week are a vestigial remnant of Anglo-Saxon paganism: Tiw (Tuesday), Woden (Wednesday), Thunor (Thursday) and Frige (Friday). Similarly, I knew about Eostre (Easter) and Hel (Hell). There isn’t much new ground covered in this video. From […]

  • Not Angles, But Angels: Gregory the Great and the Evangelization of the Anglo-Saxons

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 13th 2020 5:45pm EST

    Is Christianity for cucks? Does it require defeat in this world? Is Christianity inherently opposed to our racial and national identity? If we go all the way back to the beginning, we don’t find this perverse worldview in the Venerable Bede’s The Ecclesiastical History of England. Quite the opposite. Gutenberg: “Nor must we pass by […]

  • William the Conquerer’s Speech at Hastings (1066)

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2020 11:13am EST

    Is Christianity for cucks? Does it require defeat in this world? If that was always the case, then how did Christianity ever spread across Northern Europe? The Viking Age in Britain came to an end with the Norman Conquest of 1066. What would William the Conqueror have thought of this debate? Maybe it is American […]

  • Sermon of the Wolf to the English

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 11th 2020 1:46pm EST

    This was an amazing sermon. I found it hard to believe that I was listening to a Catholic archbishop. It just goes to show how much Catholicism has changed in tone across the centuries as it has accommodated itself to liberalism. In this sermon, Wulfstan II, the Archbishop of York, condemns the English for their […]

  • Ibn Fadlan’s Eyewitness Account of a Viking Funeral

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 4th 2020 3:21pm EST

    This is an even better look at the Viking funeral in Russia in the 10th century that was described in the previous lecture.

  • SPLC, Antifa and the U.S. military team up to force religious discrimination and destroy lives of servicemen

    Armed With Knowledge - Jan 4th 2020 9:28am EST

    As the Georgia-based Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC) reports: Two Georgia men targeted earlier this year by online activists for their associations with radical white extremism have been kicked out of the Army National Guard, following months of investigation. Many details in this story are unclear, because the military has put a lot of red tape up around the […]

  • United Methodist Church Announces Split Over Gay Marriage

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 3rd 2020 6:34pm EST

    BREAKING: United Methodist Church leaders from around the world are proposing a new conservative denomination that would split from the rest of the church in an attempt to resolve a yearslong dispute over gay marriage and gay clergy. https://t.co/EibnG85ykR— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2020 Good. Liberalism and Christianity are irreconcilable. New York Times: […]

  • The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 2nd 2020 6:44pm EST

    In this lecture: Viking funerals and burials were dramatized stories.Viking gravestones were memorials to the dead that told stories.Viking graves linked the dead to the land.Viking gravestones were updated with new details from family stories.Viking graves reflected Viking halls.Viking halls were the center of Viking life.Beowulf is set in Scandinavia. Valhalla = the home of […]

  • Life and Afterlife: Dealing With The Dead In The Viking Age

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 1st 2020 10:56pm EST

    In this lecture: The Vikings cremated their dead and buried them in graves. There were more burials in Denmark and Norway and cremations in Sweden.Mounds were usually built on top of Viking graves.The Vikings practiced animal sacrifice and human sacrifice at their funerals with both animals and slaves being buried with their masters along with […]

  • The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 31st 2019 11:14am EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. I’m listening to this on the road.

  • NBC: White Christian America Ended In The 2010s

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 29th 2019 3:11pm EST

    This doesn’t come as a surprise. Conservatism, Inc. exists to conserve liberalism. It does not exist to conserve White Christian America. Instead, it is a bloodsucking parasite which harnesses these resentments for its own purposes which are promoting Israel and tax cuts and deregulation for corporations. Those of us who want to preserve our race, […]

  • The Vikings

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 27th 2019 3:14pm EST

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  • Anglo-Saxons, Britain and Christianity

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 22nd 2019 10:55pm EST

    Editor’s Note: I feel like staying in Early Medieval Britain tonight and taking a look at the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Now watching:

  • Viking Runes

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 21st 2019 12:47pm EST

    I’m a Lutheran. I’m also a Northern European though. I have some Scandinavian ancestry. I also love learning about history. So anyway, I came across this video and thought some of the pagans here who are both giving and taking shit in the comment section would enjoy it.

  • Christianity Today: Trump Should Be Removed from Office

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 20th 2019 4:23pm EST

    Of all the things that Trump has done in office, briefly delaying foreign aid to Ukraine in support of its ongoing military conflict with Russia over Crimea and the Donbass, which is utterly none of our business, is about the last thing that makes him morally unfit to be president. Christianity Today: “The reason many […]

  • Luther and Liberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 19th 2019 12:50pm EST

    This article at Patheos this morning has drawn my attention to another article on Luther and the origins of liberalism by Korey D. Maas in the July/October 2019 edition of Concordia Theological Quarterly: Concordia Theological Quarterly: “What we have on the table, then, are three interpretive and evaluative options. Characterized with gross simplicity, they are […]

  • Atheism Surges Among White Liberals

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 18th 2019 11:48pm EST

    What has gotten into White liberals? 1.) There has been a 14 point jump in self-identified atheists in the Trump era. 2.) Atheism is strongly related to wokeness. 3.) White liberal atheists are filling the spiritual void in their lives with “social justice” causes and finding meaning in fighting white privilege. 1/n Over the course […]

  • TAC: Orders of Charity

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 16th 2019 7:07pm EST

    This is a good article. I recommend that our Catholic readers read and digest it and wonder what changed. It doesn’t sound all too different from Luther’s idea of the Orders of Creation. TAC: “As a Catholic theologian, Aquinas unsurprisingly identifies God as the preeminent object of man’s love. But this hierarchy also has broad […]

  • Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 15th 2019 3:48pm EST

    I spent much of last year studying the Reformation. I’m currently studying the period between the Peace of Augsburg and the Enlightenment and exploring how Lutheranism continued to evolve in Northern Europe in the late 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. This period is roughly bounded by Luther’s death and Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher […]

  • The Atlantic: The Christian Withdrawal Experiment

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2019 1:46pm EST

    St. Marys, KS is a town of 2,627 people which has been taken over by Trad Catholics. They run the town now. The Atlantic: “Half an hour down the highway from Topeka, Kansas, not far from the geographic center of the United States, sits the town of St. Marys. Like many towns in the region, […]

  • How We Learned That Slavery Is Wrong

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2019 12:30pm EST

    Alec Ryrie is the author of Protestants: The Faith That Made The Modern World. He has a new book out called Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. I will be reading and reviewing both books here in 2020. These lectures are basically chapters from his book. Is Protestant Christianity incompatible with racialism, white supremacy and […]

  • Liberal Christianity

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 11th 2019 6:17pm EST

    There are a lot of non-Christians who read this site who are alienated from Christianity for various reasons which they tend to assume are inherent to Christianity. This isn’t their fault. They weren’t raised as Christians and have likely been repeatedly told this by Christians. We’re constantly told that Christianity is incompatible with “racism” and […]

  • Liberalism and the Church

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 10th 2019 3:49pm EST

    We’re continuing our series on illiberal Protestantism. So far, we have looked at Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and how Lutheranism has traditionally held that God governs his earthly kingdom or “the left hand realm” of the world through the structures of the Orders of Creation – family and work, the church and the state […]