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Slavic Native Faith and mono-ideologies


In the Russian intellectual milieu, Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) presents itself as the ideology of "nativism" (narodnichestvo), which in Rodnovers' own historical analysis is destined to supplant what they call the "mono-ideologies" whose final bankruptcy the world is now witnessing. By "mono-ideologies" they mean all those ideologies which promote "universal and one-dimensional truths", failing to grasp the complexity of reality and therefore doomed to failure one after the other. These "mono-ideologies" include Christianity and the other Abrahamic religions (monotheistic religions), and all the systems of thought that these religions spawned throughout history, including both Marxism and capitalism, and the general Western rationalistic mode of thinking begotten by the Age of Enlightenment.

The folklorist Mariya Lesiv observed Rodnovers marching in Kiev in 2006 chanting "Out with Jehovah! Glory to Dazhboh!" Simpson noted that in Poland, several practitioners launched a poster campaign against Valentines Day, which they regarded as not being an authentically Polish celebration. In Russia, Slavic Native Faith practitioners have been responsible for the vandalism and arson attacks carried out on various Christian churches.

Many Slavic Native Faith practitioners consciously reject Christianity or adopt anti-Christian views. Some also take a hostile stance toward Judaism, which they regard as having spawned Christianity. In general, Judaism is 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; Christianity is considered as a system that destroys morality by casting human responsibility away from the present world and in a transcendent future. Abrahamic religions in general are considered as forces which lead to the destruction of organic peoples. For many Rodnovers, Christianity has to be regarded as a foreign force that is destroying Slavic culture, or as a force that has left Russia under the control of Jews.

Christianity is also criticised as being anthropocentric, and thus responsible for ecological disruption. In Russia, Rodnovers often criticise Christianity for its claim to have a monopoly on truth; in identifying it as a "mono-ideology", they compare it to Soviet Marxism. Even capitalism is considered a product of Abrahamic religions; Russian Rodnover leader Dobroslav declared that "nature-swallowing capitalism is an ugly child of the Judeo-Christian civilisation", and that "the only way out is to go back ... from the cult of profit to the cult of life", back to indigenous religions.


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