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Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]
I couldn't care less Crow.
you should. Same way as you care for Muslims or same way as you tolerate Irish or Anglo specifics, for example
Pick some other religion that is not so obviously absurd.
Tolerance, please. For too long we Slavs tolerated Germanic and English historical schools. Now, you should, as a Slavic man, tolerate Slavic and more and more internationally respected apprach
By the way I have thought that you are a Christian not some heathen.
heathen? heathens are to be burn Irone, isn`t it? Now, how could I admit that I am heathen. I`m not that crazy. Just joking of course.
Now, anyway, yes Serbians are Christians, among the first Christians in Europe. Just, fortunately or being cursed, as title of this thread nicely suggests, Serbians managed to preserve some crucial elements of their pre-Christian religion within Christianity, so in some Christianize form. In short, we preserved concept of SLAVA and OCILO (Serbian cross), where spiritual life rotate around cult of ancestors and Sun.
You seems to be failing for a delusion that Slaves like Celts are not a tribe but a cultural group with many tribes and many people of different origin (European).
You are mistaking there. Celts were Scythians/Sarmatians/Thracians (ie Slavs).
From Serbians (Skordisci) on Balkan/Central Europe to the Picts (Scots) on British islands all were Celts and Sarmatians (ie Slavs). It just depend from author to author, from era to era, how things were described and recorded.
Now, we are happy to live in informative age, where we have internet and we are happy that we don`t need that somebody else draw conclusions to us. We just have to have a reason and at least minimum honesty to be able to comprehend historical puzzle. No need to involve politics in that.
On basis of following what theories are floating out there.
Most theories support thesis of Slavic autohtonicity in Europe.