The long history of Christian terror and genocide in Europe

May 10, 2008 on 11:13 pm | Friedrich Braun | Christianity , Paganism | | Email This Post | Print this Post

Under the Christian axe
The conversion of the Germanic peoples was neither easy nor peaceful. The turning point - at least as far as the continental tribes were concerned - occurred in the year AD 772 when the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne ordered the wholesale massacre of some 30,000 Saxons who refused to convert. The victory of the new faith over the old was made even more emphatic when the Irminsul, the sacred pole of the pagan Saxons (the symbolic equivalent of the Scandinavian world tree Yggdrasill), was cut down at Charlemagne’s command. As the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas has said, this act of desecration would have had the same impact as the demolishing of St Peter’s would have for Catholics.

Pagan Resurrection by Richard Rudgley.

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