Arminius wrote:"Abrahamic way of thinking"? Abrahamic is monotheistic, not heanthenish!
Right, that was my point. To ask how a heathen should live seems to have the kind of universal, rigid morality I associate more with Abrahamic religions. IOW the question seems an odd one to put to heathens.
And "'as a non-dualist'"? What do you exactly mean?
I meant that heathen is a category based on a negative. People who are not people of the Book or whatever. So I picked another group defined in the negative: could be monists, could be people who believe in the four elements (or five like some Chinese do), could be other people whose beliefs are categorized as not dualistic. To ask one of these people to give an answer to how members this odd batch of
belief systems SHOULD act or think, is weird, I think.
To go back to the OP and Arminius. I would not want to say that heathen today should take up arms against what makes for modern Rome. I would not want to say they should not. Certainly issues of freedom play into my not wanting to state what heathens should do. And then also the category issue I have raised, hopefully more clearly this time.
Arminius strategy was a holding action, ultimately. The civilized barbarians have taken over all Germanic lands. In fact Germanic peoples are prime members of the civilized barbarians these days.
But just because it ultimately failed, that doesn't mean I want to use that to develop a should for heathens based on that failure.