>>23395170Marriage was essentially never cut out for christianity
> When Christianity spread northIt came cloaked in universal peace, humility, and salvation…
But it rode on the back of Roman imperialism, political power, and later, military force.
The early Christian mission to the Germanic world was met with:
- Fierce resistance (e.g. the Saxon Wars, where Charlemagne meant mass baptism/mass executions)
- Flight and retreat (Germanic tribes moving further north and inland)
- Eventually… synthesis of a bizarre hybrid/halfhearted and soulless only catering to the royalty/church missionary(tax collectors)
> Because Christianity couldn’t break the Germanic spirit - So it did something more clever: Christianity Became More Germanic
To convert them, Christianity had to take on their mythic structure
Jesus became a blood king and a sacrifice warrior
Churches were built on sacred groves
Saints became patron-warriors, echoing tribal protector gods
Marriage became a blood oath, not just a Roman contract
> It was a Germanized ChristianityRoman/judaic/christian in theology, but Germanic in armor.
By the time of the High Middle Ages, Christianity had fully absorbed the warrior spirit
— knights, crusades, monastic military orders (Templars, Hospitallers), and marriage as sacred covenant.
But underneath that cross was always a buried sword — and that sword wasn’t Roman.
It was Germanic & nobody will pursue something that is weak or gamble on a weak hand.
> The unfortunate bizarre mutt hybrid we were left with Some sort of strange hybrid:
A Christianity that speaks of peace, but worships a crucified sacrificial king
A religion of meekness, that gave rise to warrior monks and blood feuds over honor
A marriage sacrament, that borrows its power from tribal oaths and ancestral shame
"How do you invest sacred energy into a system designed to return nothing sacred in return?"
