What did Prince Canute mean by "this snow is love"?


In chapter 34 of _Vinland Saga_ manga, Canute seems to realize something, and
starts narrating with "this snow is love". From page 33-36,

> [Pg. 33](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RdBff.jpg) I understand. It is as though
> a fog has lifted from my mind. ( _While holding a snowball_ ) **this snow is
> love**.
>
> [Pg. 34](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MUO0m.jpg) This sky... this earth... the
> blowing wind. The trees, the mountains...
>
> [Pg. 35](https://i.stack.imgur.com/syz10.jpg) ...... but... how must I
> express it... though this world... though the work of God holds so much
> beauty...
>
> [Pg. 36](https://i.stack.imgur.com/axtqb.jpg) Is there no love in the heart
> of man?

I don't quite understand what the chapter means. Is this referring to the
Christian religion? Could anyone explain to me what's this chapter's wisdom?




The mountains, the snow, the wind, and all of nature don't fight to get ahead,
they don't fight to gain something and they don't fight to push something
away. Nature and the elements just go with the flow and this is what the
Priest describes as real love. Where something is completely complacent.

When Canute asks what then does the love I felt for Ragnar means, the Priest
says that is simply discrimination because Ragnar let innocent people die to
protect Canute. Because for humans, love is putting someone above everyone
else and that cannot be fair.

Then the priest goes on to talk about Adam and Eve, which is the story of Eve
being tempted by the devil to eat a forbidden apple, she goes on to eat the
apple and after she does this, god punishes the human race by making them
unable to experience this true love that the priest talks about. The only way
to experience this true love is to die because that is the only way a human
can be totally complacent. Thus the world we live in now is the true hell,
where none of us can experience this true love until we die.

So basically, what this priest describes is a story from Christianity but of
his take on how god punishes us for the first sin that Eve committed.

