(January 7, 2022 at 2:26 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(January 7, 2022 at 1:21 am)Astreja Wrote: In the Old Norse tradition, beliefs aren't important. Behaviour is everything. The traditional path to Valhalla is honourable, courageous action, not worshipping the Æsir and Vanir. (My ancestors also didn't believe in an afterlife with eternal torture, and there were more possibilities than Valhalla versus Niflheim.)
But that didn't help them to become peaceful people; the Vikings were nothing more but waves of drunken marauders ravaging people on the other shore; and whoever retreats or have a tiny drop of compassion for the victims of the massacres done by the horde of vikings is deemed "unworthy" and goes to Niflheim !
Take your pick between religions of terrorism like the Viking faith; and between Islam that states there shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion.
Firstly, there is no such thing as 'the Viking faith'. 'Viking' is an occupation, not a people or a society (it's the modern version of an Old English word that best translates as 'pirate').
Second, and more importantly, you continue to be an idiot.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
