Nowadays, it is being commonly assumed that name, the Christian worldview defines the essence of Western civilization, as we know it. However, the close reading of the earliest Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon poetical pieces, such as Beowulf, The Seafarer, and The Wanderer, provides us with insight into the spiritual foundation of this civilization as being rather biologically than religiously defined. It is Europeans inborn sense of idealism, and not their adherence to Christian dogmatism, which allowed them to indulge in abstract philosophizing thus creating metaphysical preconditions for the concepts of culture and science to be closely associated with Europe. Therefore, we can say that the essence of motifs of existential tension, found in all three poems, corresponds to the fact that the acceptance of Christian tenets by White people had only taken place after Christian dogmatism was being transformed by these peoples existential idealism into something opposite from what original Christianity used to be. Therefore, we can say that all three poems describe the
process of Semitic materialistic mentality, (out of which the spirit of original Christianity originates) being digested by White peoples ability to operate with highly abstract terms. Christianity was being introduced to Europe, to spiritually corrupt Europeans, just as it was the case with Christianity finding its way into the Roman Empire. However, given that fact that at the time, the overwhelming majority of Europeans, and particularly Anglo-Saxons, were physically and mentally healthy individuals, the process of them being infused with the poison of Christianity, did not result in their speedy demise, as it was the case with degenerate Romans. Quite contrary they were able to work out a spiritual vaccine (early Catholicism) against this poison. This is the reason why, even though the name of Lord is being mentioned in Beowulf, The Seafarer and The Wanderer numerous times, anonymous authors do not perceive God as a bloodthirsty Jewish tribal deity, but rather as personified reflection of their understanding of what the concepts of truth and justice stand for.