Why call a polytheist godless? (Pt. 2)
To understand why people call polytheists godless, you have to look at the monotheistic lens. Within that framework, there is only one room in the house of the divine. If you aren’t standing in that specific room, you aren’t in the house at all. It’s a supremacist worldview that places “Them” over “Everyone else.” By labeling anyone outside of their doctrine, their in-club, as godless, they weren't describing our beliefs, but were delegitimizing them. It began a political tool to enforce exclusivity and strip away the moral standing of those who held to traditional and ancestral, beliefs.
When your world is filled with gods, landwights, and ancestors, with an understanding of the cosmological hierarchy of powers, you are neither empty nor godless, but surrounded. We were never godless; we are simply living in a bigger house, a much larger, and more populated cosmos than their theology allows for.
It’s time to recognize this for what it was: for the targeted propaganda is still at work today.
~ Folcweard
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