Posted on 07/23/2006 6:02:57 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
Still beats the heck out of following the moon-god worhipping pedophile muhammed (may he rot in hell between 2 pigs for all eternety) and the accursed evil text the quran.
Has Islam lost its luster?
In other words, the same reason other prisoners turn to mohammedanism. It validates and justifies their criminal mentality.
LOLLLLLLLLL ....
Sounds like Muhammad and Norse shared notes. All cults seem to have fundamental tenets, namely death, murder, and intimidation through violence.
When a polytheist sneezes do you say "Gods bless you"?
> Asatru - it's a religion of peace.
No, it's not. but then, it doesn't claim to be. Asatru is a religion of *honor.* However, as with allr eligions, there's the whackadoodle subset, largley known as "Odinists." These are you straight-out-of-central-casting white supremecists who consider themselves "warriors."
The rest of the Asatruar both desise these types and laugh at them for importing Middel Eatern wackiness into the North belief system. The texts and lore of Asatru, the myths and sagas from the 9th through 12th centuries, are quite clear on the idea of "racial mixing" as a fully accepted practice.
Many "Odinists" are to Asatru what Satanists are to Christianity.
Not surprising since liberals have been successful lately in keeping Christianity out of prisons.
Being in a country that prides itself on freedom of religion , I guess we have to learn to put up with a lot of strange religions ,cults, devil worshippers, whatever.
There mmust be a limit somewhere, we just havent found it yet. In the meantime lets give this guy a good endoff. AMF pal,have a good hereafter, hope you like the heat.
Does anyone know where the roots of the World Tree go? No one does and there's only one tree for everyone. I used to practice asatru but only for a short time. I found that most who had a passing interest were into it because it was a vent for their failures in life and hate for anyone 'not of aryan stock' whatever. They had no clue about the poetic literature, system of values,etc. Odinism to them was just as you say, like satanism. My current interest in anything of the old Norse religion is the literature and of course, the runes!
> In the meantime lets give this guy a good endoff.
Send him to the Asatruar who are *not* white supremecist Odinist whackjobs.
> . I found that most who had a passing interest were into it because it was a vent for their failures in life
This is generally true for *anyone* with a "passing interest" in *any* religion.
> hate for anyone 'not of aryan stock' whatever.
I've yet to see anybody come up with a really good explanation for the attraction of Odinism to the skinheads. The sagas and lore, as I said, have none of that, and quite the contrary. The best explanation is that it's linked to Germany, and the skinheads seem to be of the same stock that gave the world the Nazis. The old Norse would *not* have flipped out at the presense of a Jew or a "blauman" ("blue-man," what they called black sub-Saharan Africans). They would, instead, have been intrigued, and probably would have wanted to make the Viking-with-two-backs with any exotic hotties the visitors had with 'em.*
What's really funny are skinhead Odinists. Being shaved bald was a sign, back in the day, that you were a slave. Freemen had hair. Those who were doing well were able to take care of their hair better'n most, so they tended to have longer hair. So a skinhead Odinist is telling you that he is a loser who can't even groom himself.
*Note: the Vikings would have sailed for months and beaten the crap out of each other for the chance to court the IDF babes...
I've never heard a good explanation myself and I can't come up with one either :-)
> most of them seemed more anti-Christian and anti-Islamic than anti-Jewish.
This makes a measure of sense:
1) The Christians wiped out heathens in large number back in the day. Look up Charlemagne's "Bloody Verdict of Verden" where he reportedly killed thousands of Saxon heathens for refusing to convert. Scandinavia was converted top-down at the point of a sword. This tends to annoy people, and when it comes to religion, annoyances seem to last. Witness how many Christians are still cheesed of at the Jews for "killing Jesus."
2) Interactions between the Norse and the Muslims happened, but there's little record of any real conflict. On the other hand, islam *today* poses a serious threat to heathens and pagan. Telling an Asatruar or an Odinist that his choice is either conversion or death is a good way to get popped in the nose.
3) Jews: except for the whackos, modern Asatru has nothign much to say one way or the other about Jews, anymore than about Buddhists. They pose no threat, and never did.
The Odinists who hate the Jews are really just carrying over Christian anti-semitism into a wholly different religion. This ain't new... witness all the non-Christian things that got imported into Christianity.
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