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Slavic Native Faith and Christianity

Slavic Native Faith and Christianity are mutually critical and often directly hostile to each other. Among the Slavic Native Faith (also known as Rodnovery) critiques are a view of religious monotheism as the root of mono-ideologies, by which is meant all ideologies that promote "universal and one-dimensional truths", unable to grasp the complexity of reality and therefore doomed to failure one after the other. These mono-ideologies include Abrahamic religions in general, and all the systems of thought and practice that these religions spawned throughout history, including both Marxism and capitalism, the general Western rationalistic mode of thinking begotten by the Age of Enlightenment, and ultimately the technocratic civilisation based on the idea of possession, exploitation and consumption of the environment. They are regarded as having led the world and humanity to a dead-end, and as destined to disappear and to be supplanted by the values represented by Rodnovery itself. To the "unipolar" world created by the mono-ideologies, and led by the American-influenced West, the Rodnovers oppose their political philosophy of "nativism" and "multipolarism".

For many Rodnovers, Old Testament theology and Christianity are regarded as the foremost cause of the degradation of the world and of humanity. Christianity in particular is denounced as an anthropocentric ideology which distorts the role of mankind in the cosmos by claiming that God could have been incarnated as a single historical entity (Jesus), at the same time creating hierarchical and centralised powers that throughout history defended the rich and legitimised slave mentality. Old Testament and Christian theologies also enforce a separation of the supreme God from the world of nature, not regarded as ennobled by spirit but as inanimate, and this, combined with their anthropocentrism, gives way to an exaltation of the technical power of mankind to possess, exploit and consume the environment. This "dangerous illusion of domination" of humanity over nature, is the root of the ecological disruption, of the spiritual and social crisis that humanity faces in the 21st century, of the "degeneration" (disconnection from the ancestors, the gods, and the ultimate God) of humanity itself. Joining Rodnovery and its values often involves ceremonies of formal rejection of Christianity and its products, called raskrestitsia ("de-Christianisation").

Many Rodnover practitioners consciously and actively reject Christianity and the Abrahamic monotheisms. Rodnovers regard the theology of the Old Testament and Christianity as the primary causes of the degradation of the world and of humanity, as the root of all the "mono-ideologies" promoting "universal and one-dimensional truths" and smothering the multiplicity of reality. These "mono-ideologies" comprehend all their secular ideological products, including both Marxism and capitalism, the general Western rationalism begotten by the Age of Enlightenment, and ultimately the technocratic civilisation based on the idea of possession, exploitation and consumption of the environment. If Christians claim to have a monopoly on truth, Rodnovers often equate Christianity with Soviet Marxism. The Russian volkhv Dobroslav (Aleksey Dobrovolsky) declared that:

Nature-swallowing capitalism is an ugly child of the Judeo-Christian civilisation [...] the only way out is to go back [...] from the cult of profit to the cult of life.

Some Rodnover practitioners take a specific hostile stance toward Judaism, which they regard as having spawned Christianity. In turn, Christianity is regarded by some Rodnovers as having led the Slavs and other Europeans under the control of the Jews. According to them Christianity is "in itself [...] evil for all mankind", and was created by relying "on the most humiliated part of humanity, distinguished by treachery". Judaism is also considered the first thought-system to have demonised the Earth, identifying it with hell, due to the fact of Jews being people without land of their own.

All these ideologies, based on the principle of the verb "to have", are thought by Rodnovers to be the iteration of the existential model introduced by Abrahamic theology and Christian theology in particular, which "paradoxically combines the broadest freedom of human personality with the ontological primacy of the absolute" God and his deterministic will. Christianity enforces a separation of God from the world, regarded as its external creation deprived of intrinsic spiritual value, and installs the anthropocentric idea that God became incarnated as a single historical entity (Jesus), which distorts the role of mankind in the cosmos, allegedly raising the individual above the surrounding world by making him "the crown of creation" and giving him a "dangerous illusion of domination" over the Earth and other entities, based on the justification for the impious possession, exploitation and consumption of the environment contained in the Old Testament:

Fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over all animals that creep on the ground.

The anthropocentrism of Christianity is also regarded by Rodnovers as a tool that throughout history was used to establish hierarchical and centralised powers which defended the rich and legitimised slave mentality, promoting humile behaviour, antithetically to a Rodnover ethical emphasis on courage and fighting spirit, and theological emphasis on the ontological freedom of living beings. In general, Christianity is conceived as a religion of servilism (rab), while Rodnovery is conceived as freedom of choice and faith in Rod, the principle from which everything descends. Koldun—a Russian Rodnover priest from Krasnodar—also defined the Abrahamic religions as ideologies which dissolve the many individual identities into amorphous throngs, in which the value of the individual is lost, while he defined indigenous Rodnovery as true knowledge which stimulates the effort of the individual consciousness to self-improvement. Rodnovers emphasise that they are "offspring of gods, not servants of God" created from dirt, implying that every living being is a decentralised fragment of God, "an independent entity in the rational-conscious, volitional and active senses", and yet always organically part of the immanent God.

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