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ATTENTION PAGANS
During a debate with some Christ-tards, I came to a conclusion. Pagans, as much as we all may love our lore, our beliefs and our ways and we want more than anything to revive these, are not very well organized. This is the one thing that Christianity has always had against us. They have a church, we have small and disparate tribal religions. They have a pope, we have decentralized priests. They have most of the world, we have hardly anything anymore.

This was a problem for the Pagans of the Ancient world, not just us. Their religions were often weakly organized and changed on regional differences, which made it easier for the Church to convert one tribe, then the next, then the next…
If we want to prevent this and grow as a strong culture, we must change and adapt. We must become centralized and organized if we want to be a strong opposition to Christianity, Islam and Judaism, all of which have a strongly organized faith. We should have a central leader or a council that controls our goal and direction. A big problem I've noticed with Paganism is that political groups tend to come in and make it about whatever the fuck they want. Just take a gander at Wiccans or Tumblr Heathens and you will know exactly what I am talking about. We need to establish a community that tells those people to fuck off while setting up a guideline on what our motives are, what we strive to accomplish and why we should be heard.

I propose that we use the Hellenistic model of religious organization to accomplish this. This isn't because of any ethnic preference, I myself am a Germanic Pagan, but I realize that the tribes of my people were never well organized. The Hellenic model, of which the Roman Catholic church is heavily based off of, is the best opportunity to unite the Pagan religions together into a singular entity. This does not mean syncretisim or eclectic Paganism like Wiccans graviate towards. Each region would have a their specific pantheon and traditions to cling to, but all would have seats in the council and would obey the supreme leader of our "Church". This doesnt mean the Hellens would have power over the rest of us, just that their model of religious organization will be used for all of us.

Paganism has already grown among a few fringe groups of people, but if we are to continue growing into the mainstream and retain the power we attain, we must become organized. We must follow the model of organization that has been used by our enemies to succeed.

A rock will eventually wither away, but water will change to circumstances and always defeat the rock.