Nietzsche called himself the Antichrist in order to point out a lot of humbug that was going on in the Christian churches of his time, when imperialism was the discourse of the “civilised” world.

Race itself is a modern concept based on a hierarchical view of humanity. In contrast, ancestors of all people generally viewed people as people (the Greeks, the Romans and the Chinese were exceptions even in the distant past, due to their ideological use of the term “barbarians”).

We live in a world today that witnesses separation of religion from the state machinery in many parts of the world. In that context, many non-Europeans actually find inspiration in the Gospels and willingly become Christians. In China, for example, underground Christianity is an impressive force against the oppressive power of the Communists. A similar example could be seen in former East Germany. It is empowering to believe that human conscience has a divine source. It becomes a source of inspiration for great action and selfless heroism.

As I am often engaged in interfaith encounters, I have learnt that many Christians now practise non-interference when they involve themselves in aid work in non-European countries. However, there are evangelical American groups that still have conversion as their agenda. Again I believe this has something to with an ingrained sense of superiority that many – not all, I wish to emphasise – Americans cannot seem to let go.

Yet it is also important to note that some sayings of Jesus in the Gospels easily lend themselves to exclusivist interpretations, e.g, “I am the way.” Does it imply there are no other ways? The Jesus in the so-called “Gnostic Gospels” (the Nag Hammadi codex) seems to represent a more ambiguous image that is akin to mysticism.

Talking about politics and religion: the Nazi portrayal of Norse mythology certainly did no justice to the Aesir and the Vanir. And now we have leftists who become obsessed with that period in history and denounce all Asatruars as either overt or closet fascists! Marxism is probably the most dogmatic and self-righteous ideology that ever appeared on earth. The leftist blaming of the Norse gods for fascism is misplaced. Havamal cautions its readers against any form of prejudice and extremism. Odin is quite Greek in that way – for Greek (and Chinese) philosophers of old believed in balance.

As to the health-damaging cult of the white sugar: it is a remnant of Western imperialism that has entered into the circulation of universal human consumption. The japanese imperialist tool of the MSG (adopted by the Chinese) is far less successful in comparison!

And now the coming decades: the spectre of Marx , coupled with Chinese “folkish” obsession with the purity of the emperor cults of the past, lives on in the rise of Chinese Communist imperialism. The world is still not rid of imperialism as a truly barbaric form of relating to one another.

Conscience and reason are called for, and we can find inspiration for that in Havamal and in literature of other spiritual traditions, including Christianity in its non-imperialist forms.

Generally speaking, people in hot climates have traditionally eaten more plant foods and people in cold climates have generally eaten more animal foods. (Though I’m sure there are exceptions to this rule.)

The extreme example of a high meat diet is the Eskimoes, whose traditional diet is something around 90% animal products and very high in saturated fat. Despite this, they’ve been found to suffer no heart disease when eaing their traditional diet. On the contrary, they only get heart disease once they get started on white bread, Coca Cola and other modern crap.

Anyway, I’m definitely in the camp that does not believe that clean, fresh red meat causes disease.

These days I usually have milk and eggs for breakfast, salad with chicken or fish for lunch and beef or pork with vegetables for dinner. I snack on fruits, nuts, cheese and yogurt.

A *strict* paleo diet doesn’t allow any kind of bread, pasta, rice or potatoes. It doesn’t allow any dairy either. Obviously, I’m not that strict. I think a little bit of bread or potato is ok as long as you don’t allow those to become your primary carbohydrate sources.

And yeah, I’m familiar with the tradition of long distance runners eating a lot of pasta before a race. It’s called “carbo loading”. Personally I think it’s retarded but I’m not an endurance athlete anymore, so maybe I’m missing something.