‘In recent years European religious and political leaders along with leading academics have emphasised on returning to Europe’s ‘Christian’ Identity but history tells a different story that actually Europe’s historical Identity and roots has more in common with Hinduism’ : On 11 April 2011 Ex-Pope Benedict XVI accused anyone who denied Europe ‘s Christian roots [...]
A look at European Pagan Traditions and their growing relationship with Hinduism [...]
May 17, 2012
Robin Herne
Indigenous/Pagan Voice
The late Ram Swarup (1920-98), definitely the most important Hindu philosopher of independent India’s first half-century, liked to point out that other cultures had traditions similar to Hinduism before Christianity or Islam wiped them out. As he put it in his path‑breaking study of polytheism, The Word as Revelation (1980): “There was a time when [...]
May 2, 2012
Dr Koenraad Elst
Indigenous/Pagan Voice
Contemporary Accounts of Massacres of Native Americans From Crusoe’s Island by John Ross Browne (1864) No pretext has been wanted, no opportunity lost, whenever it has been deemed necessary to get them out of the way. At Nome Cult Valley, during the winter of 1858-’59, more than a hundred and fifty peaceable Indians , including women [...]
What is called paganism, heathenism, and polytheism is in fact the Natural religion of humanity. In areas where it has survived the onslaught of anti-human ideologies with their ego gods, it has retained its self-respecting name. In Japan it is Shinto, in Taiwan Confucianism And Taoism, and in India as Hinduism. [...]