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No. The first step is to restore the home church centered on the sacred fire and tomb. Paganism is intensely familial, a commune of the dead, the quick, and the unborn. It is this familial cult that is the source of all European culture. The House Father is the prototype of the king and the wife the priestess and oracle. We start here.

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The worship of Republican Rome and Greece as a function of heroism seems naive. Greece and Rome invented the western tradition of slave economies and slave governments - the slave religion that Nietzsche complains about was destined to follow. The appetite for world conquest by Alexander and Scipio came with the desire for transforming the world to give the conquerors eternal wealth and to remake the world in the image of their culture. Alexander tried to marry his generals to Persian women, Rome became a city of slaves and an unruly mob, and everything great about those peoples started to decay and rot.

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