RE: Thread on Asatru
August 21, 2012 at 4:38 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2012 at 4:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 21, 2012 at 4:32 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: And I still stand by my original post. I don't think that Asatru is a belief system that is open to anyone else than people with a germanic background(by germanic, I do not just mean Germans, I mean any people who speak Germanic languages as their ancestral tongue).
Of course you do, likely because you feel the need to search for validation for your own ethnocentric garbage from what you perceive to be the ethnocentrism of others. It's not important whether or not that ethnocentrism is actually present, only that you can assure yourself that it is.
Quote:Oh, please enlighten me then.Exactly the point, I shouldn't have to.
Quote:I believe you're confusing asatru with Wicca, which is actually a religion that fits your description, and it has adherents of all races and ethnicities, but it's not a recon movement, it is a new-age religion that puts focus on magic and witchcraft.See what believing gets you?
Quote:Depends on the timeline.
If you want to go a while back, we can discuss the Urheimat hypotheses for the indo-european peoples.
But currently the majority of scholars believe it was somewhere around the Pontic steppe.
Hey, look at you, I'm wondering how you could be aware of this and yet still maintain that there was some sort of ethnic specificity to the collection of beliefs that ended up being terminated (as they traveled and absorbed other beliefs) in northern Europe with the rise of christianity. Some of their gods/superstitions/cultural quirks/narratives likely originate from as far afield as west fucking Africa Mehm (and if we continue to go further back, you know, depending on the timeline, down into the interior)..... So tell me again why a Bantu can't worship them? This is what happens when cultures collide, they collude.
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