Ernst Bergmann: Thesis 6

 

Thesis 6

The German religion is a full religion. It has nothing to do with freethinking,
godless propaganda and religious decomposition. 
We orthodox Asatru stand on the solid ground of a positive religion.

What is religious decomposition?

    Religious decomposition was part of the mechanical-materialist spirit of the 2nd half of the

19th century, in which an anti-religious direction spread. Asatru today rejects Christianity

as a foreign religion, but only in order to replace it with genuine Germanic piety and a

knowledge of the divine that is appropriate to our race. It is therefore anything

but a substitution religion.

Christianity and religion are not one thing, as many still believe today. On the contrary:

Christianity and religion now contradict each other. And many Christians are religious

not because of their Christianity, but in spite of it. For Christianity contains numerous

worldview remnants of past ages that stand in the way of the development of genuine

and lively religiosity and contemporary piety. Today, many devout people flee the

Christian church not only because it speaks of Zion and Salem, David's son and

Abraham's seed, but above all because they often no longer find there what they

understand by religion. Out of religion they reject Christianity. For in a holy place

they do not want to see and experience anything that disturbs and impairs the pure

mood of their minds as a result of its contradictions with contemporary life. (ed.:, e.g.,

transgender priests, gay couples or racial strangers).

    

    Whoever, therefore, wants to prevent and avoid the endangerment and degradation

of religious thought, whoever wants to deprive elements that subvert religion of any

possibility of spreading, should resolutely oppose the equation of Christianity and

religion and, in general, the preservation of a form of religion which, as things stand

today, virtually calls into question all religious thought.

    The religion-destroying propaganda of the godless could never have spread

so widely among our people had it not been for the unfortunate dogma that Religion

is not possible in any other way than in the Christian form. (ed.: i.e., "new atheism").

Religion is present in every human soul, and non-Christians can be the most genuine

God-seekers, because they think independently. "Not he has religion who believes

in a holy scripture, but he who has no need of one and could well make one himself "

(Schleiermacher).

    Where Christianity ends, our religion begins. Belief in a personal God, in revelation

and salvation is superstition, and not religion. The biologically educated man of today

faces and experiences the problems of his existence, the religious as well as the moral

ones, in a completely different way than where the primitive Christian or even the medieval

man searched for and found them. Our religion lies in the cosmos, in the world of nature and

reality, in blood and soil, people and homeland, nation and fatherland, all areas of events

which are rich enough in the valuable content of the wonderful and eternal to let the whole

of the most basic religious feelings, the feeling of oneness with the divine, the feeling

of holiness and the feeling of blessedness, spring up in our hearts and spread religious

consecration over our existence. 

    Our religion is no longer the international Christian God who could not prevent Versailles;

our religion is that which is growing alive in us today, the great, holy, ardent longing

to wipe out 1000 years of German suffering and to make amends for the sins the

Judeo-Christian foreign religion has committed against the Germanic soul. 

Editors Comments: This section is saying that Asatru is not "substituting" for Christianity, 
renaming its forms, replacing God with Odin and Jesus with Thor, we're saying Asatru reaffirms our ancient religious feelings which would include love of nature and nobility of man. This is probably why the "9 Noble Virtues" in Asatru don't get much attention, because they seem like a substitute for the 10 commandments. We don't need to read virtues, we need to live them, and indeed would do so because of our genetic background, even in the absence of their teaching. Words are wind, deeds are iron.

Bergmann declares an omnipotent God, an "international god", would not have allowed the humiliation of the Versailles treaty. In the same light, an omnipotent God would not have allowed all kinds of evil. The murderous way that human groups interact shows that there is no such thing as one god for all people, or we wouldn't have group conflicts. Stating each human group has its own god, which lives as long as that group does, IS in line with the natural world, and puts the "divine" in the realm of human groups being the best reproducers they can be. Liberalism and Christianity destroy group survival strategies via universalism. Liberalism could be seen as an effective survival strategy, as it has run the European world since at least 1786, but ultimately the liberties of the degenerate elite take precedence over the liberty of the masses, and gets to a level where that society collapses. Many such examples: Rome, Egypt, Greece, etc.

It has been argued, and could be correct, that Charlemagne's annihilation of Asatru and it's many tiny sects and variations, and unification under Christianity saved Europe from being overrun by Mongols and Islam. This is indeed possible, but the response in 2021 might not be a larger Christianity, but a larger and more fanatic Asatru for all European descendants. 

Modern Atheism is no great force either. It contains less witchcraft, perhaps, than Christianity, but is encumbered with this epoch's great religion of diversity, of equality of people, and their perfectibility. These values are, like Christianity's non-violent creed, ultimately a sham to make people who don't believe these values more powerful. "Empowering" women to not have children, or for men to not be fathers, simply makes any group weaker and weaker against those who do pursue the traditional values of family and soil. Asatru rejects atheism via the Norns, Free Will, and the divinity of Nature and man's highest achievements. Atheism reduces us to electrons, or bundles of dna, blindly carrying out the germ cell's lowest commands. Atheism condones the immoral, and does not create beauty, character or value. Asatru, with its veneration of the Aesir, represents a mingling of two divine forces: those of the noblest human traits (Aesir), and those of Nature (Vanir). Odin is Art, Thor is War, Njord is the Ocean Frey is Agriculture, and Baldur the Sun. These are powerful concepts, capable of reconciling all aspects of our activity, unlike mere monotheism, where you constantly wonder why an omnipotent, benevolent deity allows evil. Asatru embraces obstacles, and calls the forces we can't control "Giants", a very apt metaphor indeed.