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| The small farm Holmstadengen by Skreia, laying at the foot of the Totenåsen Hills. -Flickr. |
It might be hard to imagine, but 2000 years of Christianity peaked in this house. This is because the form of Christianity that was found here, Norwegian Layman's Christianity, peaked together with a peak in rural culture and the commons.
Never has the commons been stronger in Norway than in the years the preacher who lived here, Magnus J. Dahl, worked. He was the apostel of the Totenåsen Hills. The farmers who lived there were very poor, many former "husmenn", which in some aspects was worse than serfdom. Now they owned their small plots of land, and they even got their own apostel and religion. Where they themselves were the priests.
And the woodlands of the Totenåsen Hills was a commons, where they all could cut their lumber and graze their cattle. They had their own bathhouse as a commons, the same with the small diary, the "bedehus" (kind of prayer house), and so on. The commons were so strong!
Further Dahl was a "rosenianer", inspired by the Swedish theologian Carl Olof Rosenius, who preached a quite forgiving kind of Christianity, full of graze.
So for sure, 2000 years of Christian history peaked in this house!
Selv våger jeg stolt å påstå, som kvit middelaldrende mann, at kulturen som blomstret fram i grenda mi oppunder Totenåsen rundt forrige århundreskifte, var vår vestlige sivilisasjons høydepunkt.
ReplyDelete"Men han har et viktig poeng: vi står midt i en kulturkamp – det hjelper ikke å ha den beste politikken og de beste løsningene. Man må vinne kampen om kulturen."
https://resett.no/2018/03/11/identitetspolitikken-et-angrep-pa-den-vestlige-frihetstanke/#comment-3798740086
Min kultur er vel utdødd, derfor kan jeg vel selv også karakteriseres som en levende død. Kanskje derfor så mange skygger unna meg.
Allikevel kommer jeg til å fortsette kampen for min døde kultur!