by Gandalf Freyasson
Raven’s Note: Having been through The Satanic Panic and the woke’s Imperial Inquisition Into Idiocy, I’ve seen these extremes take over movements. It was something I pointed out in my article Chasing Phantoms In The Dark. Personally, I’ve made the decision (and it’s final) that I won’t be going through it for a third time. My mind, in case the parenthetical didn’t indicate, is made up. As long as we have that understanding, then we’ll be fine. Everyone gets a happy ending to their day. If not, then, your position has a much higher chance of becoming unenviable.
I’ve noticed the rise of the purity test barely a few months into this thing. I’ve largely just thrown up my hands and said “Fuck it, y’all go kill each other to the last and leave me and mine out of it.”
But there’s something else.
Something every one of you needs to hear.
This is it. It’s a heavy dose of reality, straight, no chaser. Gandalf’s words never ringing louder than today.
We Can & We Are 2025:
Many of us consider ourselves to be both Pagan and conservative. A growing number of us have encountered belligerent characters who are determined to impose on others their political or religious beliefs. Beliefs or opinions we dislike and some of us even despise.
One bunch wants to superimpose their political ideology onto what is supposed to be a religious movement or community. They bully others under the obnoxious pretense that you cannot be a Pagan unless you are a leftist. Another bunch wants to subordinate what is supposed to be a political or social movement under their version of their religion. They are just as insufferably arrogant with their allegation that you cannot be a conservative unless you are what they consider to be a Christian. Both are wrong.
Growth & Changes:
There are some who insist that you cannot be Pagan unless you are a far-left ideologue, or at least a “liberal”. Because those who push this fiction monopolize several Pagan forums, too many get the false impression that almost all of what may be called the “Pagan community” is left leaning.
Prior to the last few decades of the 20th century, what would later become known as Neo-Paganism or the Pagan revival, was hardly leftist in orientation. Many in the Pagan community then were not leftists. More than some are willing to admit still are not. A major change was caused during the 70’s when large numbers of “hippies”, with what they called their “counter culture”, turned to the Pagan faith as part of their “social rebellion”. Many were more “New Age” than Pagan.
This infusion of “New Age” followers inflated the number of those who were called “Pagan.” These “New Age” converts brought their leftist political outlooks with them. However, as our EuroFaith Folk religion awakened during the past few decades, inspiring more to heed the call to return to our true Gods and Goddesses of our people, a substantial number of others with more traditional views also became Pagans. Because they were more focused on sharing fellowship in group rituals and other events, most Pagans were able to share spiritual gatherings with other Pagans with similar religious beliefs but who had different political opinions. It was rare to see a discussion among Pagans about any political subject.
Intruders with a Poisonous Agenda
Coming in with the leftists are those who may mimic the more sincere liberals, but they are fanatic neo-marxists determined to impose their ideology on everyone else. They scream the loudest about what they call “tolerance”, but are extremely intolerant of anyone who differs even slightly from them, their ideology, or their agenda.
There has been a concerted push by neo-marxists to co-opt Pagan forums and groups. Neo-marxists falsely accuse real Pagans, Pagans who want to remain faithful to genuine Pagan principles, of being the ones trying to hijack our Pagan revival. They ostracize genuine Pagans. Pagans who follow, as much as possible, our original beliefs and principles of our revived EuroFaith religion and traditions. Neo-marxists, and those deceived or bullied into going along with them, hype the fraud that one has to be a leftist to be a Pagan. Another deception. Neo-marxists want to be called “progressives”, but they are nothing more than recycled communists.
Genuine Pagan Principles
Neo-marxists have provoked growing resistance from those who choose to adhere to genuine Pagan principles. The EuroFaith values and guiding principles of our EuroFolk ancestors create spiritually strong, independent, rational people. Neo-marxists want blind followers they can lead anywhere they want to take them. We who want to be authentic Pagans believe we should not have to redefine what we are supposed to believe and practice when they conflict with whatever the latest leftist narrative happens to be. Sincere and real Pagans prefer to recognize reality and what is natural. We will not allow our perceptions to be warped by whatever “control” delusions neo-marxists want to impose on us.
Every genuine Pagan revived tradition that I know of, whether Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Hellenic, or who may be more eclectic, recognizes feminine and masculine energies as fundamental. This includes a belief in divine feminine and divine masculine. Our very Gods masculine and our very Goddesses feminine. Pagan EuroFolk cultures recognized that both feminine and masculine energies are indispensable. They are natural. They create life. And there are two, and only two, genders whose purposes, roles, and energies, complement and enhance each other. They need each other to survive.
In Pagan Germanic and Celtic cultures, women had more rights than in other areas. Women had as much right to inheritance, property, leadership, and to just about anything else, as men did. This recognition of women having as many rights as men was reflected in their marriage customs. Tacitus wrote that among Germanic tribes, men had only one wife. Germanic women were respected. In the cultures in which Christianity and Islam arose, women had few if any rights. Women were viewed more as possessions than as persons in their own right. What limited the number of wives a man was allowed to have was the same as what limited how much livestock he could own. He was limited to having only what he could to afford to maintain. The concept of marriage being defined as between one man and one woman is Pagan in
origin. Family being valued as the foundation of, first, one’s tribe, then of one’s nation, was also originally a Pagan tradition. These Pagan principles are now recognized as modern conservative ideals, but with which modern leftists apparently have a problem.
Some try to claim that marriage being defined as between one man and one woman was originally a Christian concept. This was mentioned only twice in what Christians call their Bible. In 1 Timothy 3:2 and Titus 1:6, Paul wrote that, among the qualifications to be a church official, one should be “the husband of one wife”. This restriction did not apply to the overwhelming majority of Christian men who were not church officials. They were free to have as many wives as they could afford. Those who imposed Christianity on Western Europe a few centuries later appropriated the Pagan concept of marriage as being between only one man and one woman. Church officials falsely claimed this principle as their own, to make the new religion appear less objectionable to Germanic Pagans who considered the Asiatic notion of polygamy repulsive.
Conservative Influence in Revival of EuroFaith Paganism
During the 19th and early 20th Centuries, there was increasing interest in a revival of EuroFolk Paganism. One of the more influential was Gerald Gardner. He was a main founder of Wicca. Gardner was initiated into a coven in 1939.
As did others at the time, this coven claimed a long descent over several generations from earlier covens. The founders of Gardnerian Wicca, as well as of other Wiccan traditions, considered what they believed in and practiced to be a resurfacing Folk religion. They resumed the use of terms such as “old ways” or “older Gods.” Influenced by genuine Pagan principles discerned from lore, they were conservative in outlook and attitude. As were others who could be called Wiccan or Pagan, Gardner was a loyal supporter of the British Conservative Party.
During the 19th Century, beginning in Germany and also attracting followers in other countries, a growing number felt called to revived Germanic Paganism. This revival created what we now know as Asatru, Odinism, or Heathenry. The Nine Noble Virtues outlined in the Havamal are guiding principles for modern Heathens, and are basic value concepts of our EuroFolk handed down through eons of time. Because of the influence of the Havamal and other lore, most modern Heathens have long been recognized as social conservatives. Even if sometimes phrased differently, these Noble Virtues are also recognized as guiding principles and ideals for modern conservatism.
Principles and traditions of our Pagan ancestors were by their very nature conservative. Paganism is naturally conservative.
Repressive Radicals
There is another bunch of prevaricators, along with their self-righteous but morally spiritually weak deluded dupes, who allege that you cannot be conservative unless you are a Christian.
Those who want to preserve the culture, traditions, and self-determination of their people view with trepidation the rise of a radical movement determined to impose their control over everything and everyone else. Proponents of this authoritarian movement deride as ignorant rubes anyone who clings to the traditions and beliefs of their people. They are intolerant of others with different beliefs. They “deplatform” or prevent from meeting or speaking those with opinions they dislike. They censor the written material of anyone expressing ideas which contradict their world view. They co-opt what they can’t repress, which they distort into something which advances their agenda. They resort to violence to repress anyone with whom they disagree. They even riot, tear down statues, destroy property, and assault people.
But wait. I’m not talking about neo-marxists and the modern conservatives they attack. I’m describing early Christians who persecuted the original Pagans who would not accept the new Abrahamic creed.
Like modern marxists, early Christians plotted to gain power by tearing down the current order and replacing it with one which they controlled. They allied themselves with ambitious political and military leaders. Ruthless political leaders wanted to eliminate all competition for political power. The main leaders of the early Christians wanted to eliminate all other religions, even competing sects claiming to follow a different version of their own religion. Each used the other to obtain and secure their own power. Empowered by political allies, and operating under the guise of government, Christian leaders and proselytizers imposed their new religion by terror and force against any remaining Pagans who refused to abandon their ancient faith. This was how Christianity became the only legal religion, first in the Roman Empire, then later in the smaller kingdoms and mini-empires which came after Rome’s fall.
The Original Thought Police
Earlier Pagans recognized that each people had their own traditions, religions, and Deities. There was mutual tolerance. Pagans did not force their faith on anyone nor seek “converts.” Christians claim to be universal, their deity purportedly the only one existing, and their religion the only one which should be allowed to be believed in or practiced. Pagan temples and sacred sites which were not destroyed were taken over or “Christianized” to be centers for the practice of their new religion. Local traditions and holy days which were not suppressed were expropriated and twisted into something which enabled them to indoctrinate and control those upon whom they forced Christianity.
Christian leaders were the first to criminalize ideas and beliefs not approved by them. Those who didn’t conform to what they decreed were violently repressed. Ideas or beliefs not taught by them were labelled by church officials as “heresy.” The infamous “witch hunts” were begun, not against alleged “witches”, but to root out and eliminate those who the church called “heretics”. Others would later call those not believing or thinking the way they wanted “infidels”, “reactionaries”, “politically incorrect”, “insurrectionists”, or other terms. What they really mean is what Orwell called them. “Thought criminals” guilty of “thought crime”.
Ideological Descendants
Other movements came later which said they were an “improved” version of what Christianity claimed to be. Islam improved on methods Christianity used by promising special rewards in the afterlife to those who killed “infidels” or forcibly imposed its religion and ideology on others. Marxism when new presented itself as a revolutionary secular version promising to create the kind of society Christianity was supposed to.
Marxists have long employed the tactics early Christians used to influence or control others, and to secure power. As did others, I’ve stated that marxism is an ideological grandchild of the earlier repressive creed. Well, apparently also agreeing that what became marxism is descended from early Christianity was the Roman Catholic Pope Francis. In November, 2022, the late Pope Francis was interviewed by the editor of a leftist oriented Jesuit magazine called America. During the interview Pope Francis declared: “If I see the Gospel in a sociological way only, yes, I am a communist, and so too is Jesus…The communists stole some of our Christian values.” Francis may have gotten this idea from such Biblical passages as Acts 2:44, which says about early Christians that for a time: “All who believed were together and had all things in common.” They lived in their own little communes, in which no one owned their own personal property. Everything was shared by everyone as community property. It is from the notion that property should be owned and shared equally by everyone as community property that we get the term “communism”.
And this is the religion we are supposed to practice if we are conservative?
Origin of American Ideals for Liberty
What about the allegation that the United States was supposedly founded as a Christian nation? That the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and America’s traditions and principles of liberty which are enshrined in these documents, come from Christianity? Christians in earlier ages rewrote history so that it would not contradict whatever their narrative may have been at the time. Their marxist ideological offspring continue to do this today. They likewise suppressed true accounts of what the Founding Fathers and other early Americans actually said and did. Their version of American history was devised to enable them to perpetuate their influence and control.
Pre-Christian Germanic peoples had long-standing traditions respecting the rights of the individual. Tribes were governed more by tribal leaders or chieftains than by what could be called kings. Tribal leaders were often chosen by popular consent. Their rulers never had absolute power. What authority or powers they did have was limited by laws which secured the rights of the individual. The enactment of new laws and the altering or repealing of older ones, and the passing of judgments on disputes or litigation between citizens of the community, was democratically decided in assemblies of free people called the Thing.
Fighting to be a Free People
After subjugating the Celtic tribes in what is now France, in 9 CE the Romans attempted to expand their empire by sending three legions across the Rhine into the area they called Germania. To resist the invaders, an alliance of several Germanic tribes united under the leadership of the chieftain Hermann, also known by his Roman name Arminius. This alliance of Germanic freedom fighters wiped out the invading legions in the Teutoberg Forest. Teutoberg was among the most decisive battles in the history of the Germanic peoples, and one of Rome’s most fateful defeats. Around 69 CE Roman military forces would again cross the Rhine to attempt to invade and conquer Germania. This time an alliance of an even greater number of Germanic tribes arose under the inspiration of the priestess Veleda. Again, German freedom fighters won victories which preserved their freedom. The Rhine River became the permanent eastern boundary of the Roman Empire in Western Europe.
The Germanic tribes of Western Germany remained free of foreign domination, and preserved their traditions, customs, and culture. When the Romans withdrew from Britain, Germanic Saxons, accompanied by some from the allied tribe of the Angles, moved in and took over. This was how the British came to be called Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons treasured what were originally the Pagan traditions of personal liberty and individual rights, and being governed by rulers approved by the people. They resisted those who attempted to deny British citizens these treasured rights. The main author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, proclaimed: “The common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet Pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.”
There was the momentous rebellion against one monarch who, perhaps believing he was justified by the Christian-inspired doctrine known as the “divine right of kings”, tried to become an absolute ruler unrestrained by the law or by anything or anyone else. The defeated would-be tyrant was instead compelled to sign into law what is known as the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta formally enacted into Anglo-Saxon law the Pagan-inspired principle that the people have a right to be free from oppression and tyranny. The concept that people have a right to rebel against and replace oppressive government is foundational to the later Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
Non-Christian Founding Fathers
America’s Founding fathers were not all Christians. Many of those who signed the Declaration of Independence, or who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention which drafted our Constitution, were Deists. Many others who were actively involved in winning our independence and founding our Republic in other ways, were Deists. The first four Presidents of the United States were also Deists and not Christians.
Deism was a philosophy and religious outlook popular in the 18th and early 19th Centuries among the learned in the British and American colonial upper and middle classes. Deists believed that an understanding of the Divine can be discerned through a rational observation of nature and of the laws of nature. These concepts are compatible with original EuroFolk Pagan beliefs and modern EuroFaith Pagan tenets. Polytheist Pagans perceive that there are multiple forces in nature and in the universe, and not just one sole power.
Deists did not believe in the Abrahamic concept of a “revealed god” accessible only through their cults. When you see such terms as “Providence”, “Nature’s God”, or “the Creator”, those who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were not referring to the Christian or Abrahamic god. The Founding Fathers who drafted these documents were referring to what the Deists understood the Divine to be.
The Deist Founding Father and second President of the United States John Adams wrote: “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” The Deist Founding Father, acclaimed as the Father of Our Country, and first President George Washington proclaimed: “The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.” Affirming Deism’s recognition of natural rights (originally a Western European Pagan concept), Deist Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and third President Thomas Jeferson stated:
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.” Jefferson also noted: “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.” The United States has been such a “different” and successful nation and government because it was carefully and deliberately not founded as a Christian nation.
Modern American conservatives will agree that their political beliefs are based on the ideals and principles upon which our Republic was founded. These principles were written into America’s founding documents by those who believed in a religious philosophy which was definitely not Christian. Principles which are more consistent with older Pagan concepts than with anything any of the Abrahamic creeds ever came up with. Conservative ideals were inspired by genuine Pagan principles.
We Can Be & We Are Proudly Both
Anyone who says you cannot be a Pagan unless you are some kind of leftist, and anyone who claims you cannot be a conservative unless you’re (usually their kind of) Christian, is wrong. Those who push either of these fallacies often rewrite, suppress, or just ignore, real history. They want you to be misinformed or ignorant about what really happened, and what was actually done or said, in the past.
Occasionally, “woke” or “pc pagans” say that it is to them “problematic” that many of those who played a major role in bringing about our modern Pagan revival, were conservative. “Woke” or “pc pagans” will ignore what were the real beliefs of those who were indispensable to the revival of our ancient religion and traditions–or even misrepresent them as having been leftists. Their neo-marxist ideology will always be more important to the “woke” or “pc pagan” than our Neo-Pagan religion and EuroFaith Pagan traditions. If they were compelled to choose between either one or the other, they would opt to impose marxism and eliminate Paganism. You can’t be Pagan unless you’re a leftist? Or, should the question be, can you be a real Pagan if you are a neo-marxist or call yourself some other leftist term which means the same thing?
The perpetrators of the other fraud continue with the centuries-old Abrahamic practice of rewriting history. Christians were experts at co-opting, hijacking, and diverting the movements of others to serve their own agendas, long before marxists, their ideological grandchildren, began doing the same thing. They are past masters of the ploy of coercing others into converting to their version of their religion by threatening to deprive others of something they need or desire. Christians have been at it a lot longer than the marxists. It is from them that the marxists got these ideas.
A more recent example of Abrahamic appropriation was the blatant hijacking of the memorial for Charlie Kirk. Many of the members and supporters of Turning Point are populist conservative patriots. Most of those who attended the memorial or who otherwise commemorated him agree with Charlie Kirk’s political beliefs. But, many don’t share what Christian Funnymentalists claim
Charlie’s religious opinions may have been. Like the spirit forces animating the domineering creed to which they are enthralled, clinging, clutching, conniving “evangelical” Smeagols feel compelled to subjugate everything and everyone to their religion. Zealous Funnymentalist proselytizers were able to divert what was intended to be a celebration of the life of Charlie Kirk into an overblown “church revival” convention.
If they have no other option, Funnymentalist Christians will choose their version of their religion over everything else, including modern conservatism, American patriotism, and even our American Republic. As did their predecessors, they will either supplant or eradicate everything else to compel everyone else to conform to their creed. You can’t be a conservative (and also a patriot) unless you are what they consider to be a Christian? Or, should the question be, can you be a real conservative (or a real patriot) if you are first and foremost a Funnymentalist Christian?
We can’t be a Pagan if we’re not a leftist? We can’t be a conservative if we’re not a Christian? We can’t be both a Pagan and a conservative patriot? We can’t?! Yes, we can! And, yes, we are! We can be a conservative Pagan! A growing number of us are! And we’re proud of it!
Reclaiming Paganism, Conservatism, & Patriotism
We first sent out We Can & We Are in August, 2023. Even then, it seemed overdue. Pagans who are conservative and prefer genuine Pagan principles over whatever the current leftist narrative happens to be were ostracized by leftists LARPing as “pagans”. Other conservative Pagans who participate in patriotic groups or events were confronted by hostile Funnymentalist Xtians deluded by a notion that American conservatism is somehow supposed to be an extension of their church cult. Our first edition of this article was published to fill the need for something comprehensive which provides conservative Pagans with information they can use to refute the falsehoods of either bunch.
A lot has happened since we sent out the first edition. We have more readers. There was the historic comeback and re-election of President Trump after four years of “lawfare” and harassment against MAGA supporters. The neo-marxist left is increasingly more vicious, but weaker. Not as many are intimidated into hiding their conservative or patriot views. More are open about their support for President Trump and MAGA populist Republicans.
The perceptive may notice parallel developments within what some used to call the “Pagan community”. When leftist LARPers succeeded in co-opting several Pagan forums and groups they were able to intimidate, silence, or ostracize Pagans who resisted neo-marxist narratives replacing more genuine Pagan practices and principles. This provoked a slowly awakening backlash.
At first, only a tiny few dared to speak up. Online what was called the “Pagan community” began to appear to be a leftist dominated monopoly. This has changed. More Pagans find or create conservative friendly forums. Many Pagans who once leaned to the left evolved and embraced more conservative values and principles. Some who were always conservative kept their views to themselves until the belligerence of self appointed leftist thought police could no longer be tolerated. As more conservative Pagan voices were heard, more were encouraged to also speak out.
We can see how the emergence of a conservative Pagan community has progressed from the comments of online leftist “pagans”. About the time Trump first ran for President, one of the more obnoxious leftists in one column prattled about how many “progressives” there were in some New England areas “so there must be plenty of Pagans”. As if “progressive” and “Pagan” were supposed to be interchangeable. A few years later this same character sneered, “OK, some Pagans may be conservative, but they are a minority”. Then about a year after that he felt compelled to bemoan, “There are a lot more Pagans who are conservative than I realized”. Not too long after that another leftist “pagan” columnist warned of a greater conservative presence among Pagans in some areas. A few weeks ago (I’m writing this in November, 2025) this same writer actually cautioned his readers that Pagans appear to be predominantly leftist “only online”.
Meanwhile, evangelical funnymentalists are increasingly aggressive in pushing
their religious beliefs onto others. Unlike previous campaigns to mass convert others, they now seem to be primarily focused on conservatives. They tried to grab onto and ride the populist conservative MAGA rise back into the White House and Congress. Some tried to con others into believing the “power of [only their] prayer” saved Donald Trump from assassination attempts, even though Pagans quietly perform rituals and call upon other Powers to protect our President. They even want to take credit for President Trump’s historic comeback. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they latched onto and try to transform his legacy from the conservative patriot hero he was into their latest xtian martyr.
Funnymentalists have also intensified their propaganda campaign to defame modern Pagans. They misrepresent Pagans as leftists or freaks. They ignore the real threat neo-marxist radicals and Islamist Jihadists are to Americans, including them. But yet they raise a shrill alarm over their fictional “Pagan Threat”. They seem to be horrified that, for the first time, we now have a Second Lady and an FBI director who are not affiliated with any Abrahamic religion. Both are Hindus. They are aghast that there was a commemoration of the Hindu holiday of Diwali in the Oval Office. Scattered among various conservative groups are conservatives who are quietly Pagan, some of whom have been confronted by angry funnymentalists. Is what really inciting the growing panic of terrified or angry evangelical funnymentalists is that more of them, and more of us who are conservative Pagans, are now beginning to realize that conservatism is no longer the xtian monopoly they wanted us to believe it to be?
We can now, and should, reclaim Paganism, conservatism, and patriotism. We ask you to share this edition with as many as you can.
Our True North EuroFaith
The term “true north” refers to a line which leads directly to the north pole, regardless of the wrong direction misleading guides or defective instruments may erroneously point you. “True north” has become a phrase meaning “one’s true course”. To “find your true north” means to discover and follow the real direction in which you should go. Rowana coined the term “EuroFaith”. This name more correctly describes the religions and traditions of our Pagan Eurofolk ancestors we now revive, believe in, and practice.
We want to believe in and practice our True North EuroFaith. This includes honoring and revering the true Gods and Goddesses of our people who now call to us to return. We invite anyone who wants to heed the call to join us in fellowship in our True North EuroFaith. Tell others they can be added to the e-mail list to receive this newsletter by contacting us at gandalf.freyasson@gmail.com. And any poetry, prose, invocations, or other information you may want to share with other Pagans, is always welcome.
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