"Christianity has emptied Valhalla, felled our sacred groves, extirpated our national image as a shameful superstition, as a devilish poison, and given us instead the imagery of a nation whose climate, laws, culture and interests are strange to us, and whose history has no connection with our own. A David or a Solomon lives in our popular imagination, but our own country's heroes slumber in learned history books." - George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Indeed. We can't change history or the mistakes of the past...but we have the luxury now of being able to look back, see where we went wrong, and tread forward in a new direction that hopefully will get us "back on the right path". I think perhaps that is why a Heathen revival never worked for more than a few decades before. Now though, we have information literally at our fingertips. There are no more excuses. We are our deeds.
About Me
- Robert Shawn Rowland
- I am a seeker of meaning, truth, and the Divine. I have been a practicing polytheist since 1997 and a lover of philosophy and theology since even before then. Most of this time I have been a Germanic Heathen, but I have also slowly taken to the practice of Gaelic Reconstructionist Polytheism. I am happily married, a hobbyist musician, a poet, pyrographer, sports fan, and pretty darn good cook. This blog will contain poems, rants, and musings relevant to my ever winding spiritual journey.
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