Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age

[Merida]

A modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in recent years as followers see the stories as metaphors for life not worship of the gods



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A modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in recent years as followers see the stories as metaphors for life not worship of the gods


Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.

Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland.

“I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,” said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ásatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.

“We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”

Membership in Ásatrúarfélagið has tripled in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members last year, out of a total population of 330,000, data from Statistics Iceland showed.

The temple will be circular and will be dug 4 metres (13ft) down into a hill overlooking the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, with a dome on top to let in the sunlight.

“The sun changes with the seasons so we are in a way having the sun paint the space for us,” Hilmarsson said.
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The temple will host ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. The group will also confer names to children and initiate teenagers, similar to other religious communities.

Iceland’s neo-pagans still celebrate the ancient sacrificial ritual of Blot with music, reading, eating and drinking, but nowadays leave out the slaughter of animals.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years

[Vasconcelos]

Will they murder people and leave their bodies hanging on trees aswell?

[Herr Abubu]

Neo-pagans are without exception some of the most pathetic people in the world. Notice how they're all Borrebies?

[Darth Revan]

Neo-pagans are without exception some of the most pathetic people in the world. Notice how they're all Borrebies?

Agreed on both accounts. The plight of the borreby joining superstition
Had been posted here before anyway

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?158396-Asatru-Heathen-Temple-to-be-Built-in-Iceland-to-Commemorate-the-Norse-Gods

[LightHouse89]

Neo-pagans are without exception some of the most pathetic people in the world. Notice how they're all Borrebies?

Hey I am a Borreby.

I am a racist christian and I think racialist christianity is the best religion in the world. Far superior to these other fake religions. White Americans are God's chosen children. :cool:

[Leto]

Hey I am a Borreby.

I am a racist christian and I think racialist christianity is the best religion in the world. Far superior to these other fake religions. White Americans are God's chosen children. :cool:
Sorry, but that's pseudo-Christianity. No major denomination shares the ideology of white supremacy.

[Trogdor]

Hey I am a Borreby.

I am a racist christian and I think racialist christianity is the best religion in the world. Far superior to these other fake religions. White Americans are God's chosen children. :cool:

Christian Identity is to Christianity what the Nation of Islam is to Islam.

[Dandelion]

In their defence I don't think people should be arrogant about Abrahamic religion being more real. Sure, the scripture is better preserved and centuries of tradition are to back this. I dunno. Live and let live I say to this. I just don't think one should write them off as fake-ish off the bat.

[Lithium]

That makes me admire Icelanders even more :D

[BeerBaron]

Now on my bucket list

[Neon Knight]

Cool. A European religious tradition that does not come from the Middle East.

[Jana]

Neo-pagans are without exception some of the most pathetic people in the world. Notice how they're all Borrebies?

Good one ;)

[Darth Revan]

Cool. A European religious tradition that does not come from the Middle East.

According to this logic, European tradition is characterized by oversimplistic tribalism and daft superstition. Not only Middle Eastern, but Persian, as well as Chinese and Indian theology would end up being far more developed if one were to take your nativist approach (religion's birthplace is what matters exclusively).

[Proto-Shaman]

Neo-pagans are without exception some of the most pathetic people in the world. Notice how they're all Borrebies?
Cromagnon-C just like Turanids :p I am proud of my Borreby comrades :cool:

[StonyArabia]

That's so cool, go my pagan friends.

[щрбл]

Will they murder people and leave their bodies hanging on trees aswell?

No, this is not a mosque.

[LightHouse89]

Sorry, but that's pseudo-Christianity. No major denomination shares the ideology of white supremacy.

thats because they are fake religions. how can it be disproven the white man wasnt chosen by god to be the world's leader?

[LightHouse89]

Cool. A European religious tradition that does not come from the Middle East.

white people came from the middle east. :picard1:

[LightHouse89]

Christian Identity is to Christianity what the Nation of Islam is to Islam.

how dare you insult me pagan idolator.

[щрбл]

thats because they are fake religions. how can it be disproven the white man wasnt chosen by god to be the world's leader?

Because he's about to disappear. In just a century the mixed man will be the world's leader.

[Herr Abubu]

Cool. A European religious tradition that does not come from the Middle East.

Tradition... :laugh:

[LightHouse89]

Because he's about to disappear. In just a century the mixed man will be the world's leader.

The bible says race mixing is sin. So the sinners will become 'brown' or fuck knows what color and we will be all thats left. They will live to serve us.

[StonyArabia]

Christian Identity is to Christianity what the Nation of Islam is to Islam.

Indeed, Christian Identity roots is in British Israel theory, which was rather pro-Zionist, Philosemitic, and not really racist, but it did emphasis on the superiority of the Anglo-Saxons and related people as being the chosen people by God. British Israelism has no support in genetics and linguistics, and his why this movement was disbanded. When this movement entered the US, it mixed with various racial believes, and it became very anti-Semitic. It believes that Jews are the serpent seed, who descent physically from Caine a Black guy lol and they are opposed to the White Anglo-Saxon race rofl, well the descent from Abel and are true Adamites, well non-Whites like Amerindians, Blacks, and so on are nothing but pre-Adamic people who have no souls. Certainly it does not reflect the mainstream aspect of Christianity. Christian Identity is popular among some White racist/racialist Americans because it gives a European twist to Christianity, and they don't want to divorce completely from Christianity. To compare it to Nation of Islam is fair in the theological aspects.I have done whole paper on Anti-Semitism and Philosemitism within the Christian tradition, and this research is what brought me upon the Christian identity and their believes. The funniest doctrine is that of the Serpent seed.

[Trogdor]

how dare you insult me pagan idolator.

As far as I'm concerned Christian Identity and the Nation of Islam are just racial-centric versions of the actual religions. Just my opinion.

[щрбл]

The bible says race mixing is sin. So the sinners will become 'brown' or fuck knows what color and we will be all thats left. They will live to serve us.

Most likely not. South Africa is a living example of what is to come in a century.

[StonyArabia]

As far as I'm concerned Christian Identity and the Nation of Islam are just racial-centric versions of the actual religions. Just my opinion.

Nation of Islam believes are quite far from mainstream Islam. They believe that God is Black, and the Black people are again chosen by God. Well Whites are beasts created from reptiles of the earth by the evil scientists called Yakub who was the devil and depigmented rofl.

[Trogdor]

Indeed, Christian Identity roots is in British Israel theory, which was rather pro-Zionist, Philosemitic, and not really racist, but it did emphasis on the superiority of the Anglo-Saxons and related people as being the chosen people by God. British Israelism has no support in genetics and linguistics, and his why this movement was disbanded. When this movement entered the US, it mixed with various racial believes, and it became very anti-Semitic. It believes that Jews are the serpent seed, who descent physically from Caine a Black guy lol and they are opposed to the White Anglo-Saxon race rofl, well the descent from Abel and are true Adamites, well non-Whites like Amerindians, Blacks, and so on are nothing but pre-Adamic people who have no souls. Certainly it does not reflect the mainstream aspect of Christianity. Christian Identity is popular among some White racist/racialist Americans because it gives a European twist to Christianity, and they don't want to divorce completely from Christianity. To compare it to Nation of Islam is fair in the theological aspects.I have done whole paper on Anti-Semitism and Philosemitism within the Christian tradition, and this research is what brought me upon the Christian identity and their believes. The funniest doctrine is that of the Serpent seed.

Of course, the belief that one race is superior to another or that salvation is only for one group of people totally conflicts with Biblical teachings, especially the ones found in the book of Acts and Paul's epistles.

[Trogdor]

Nation of Islam believes are quite far from mainstream Islam. They believe that God is Black, and the Black people are again chosen by God. Well Whites are beasts created from reptiles of the earth by the evil scientists called Yakub who was the devil and depigmented rofl.

They are also a racial-centric version of the actual religion. Even Malcolm X in his later life renounced the NOI's teachings and became an orthodox Muslim.

[LightHouse89]

Most likely not. South Africa is a living example of what is to come in a century.

What is that? That continent is Negro land.

[щрбл]

What is that? That continent is Negro land.

I actually meant that obviously the white population is decreasing very fast in terms of proportions. The question I'm asking is when whites reach 10-20%, do you think you will be taken advantage of or do you think that they will respect your rights as a minority?

[StonyArabia]

Of course, the belief that one race is superior to another or that salvation is only for one group of people totally conflicts with Biblical teachings, especially the ones found in the book of Acts and Paul's epistles.

Indeed, mainstream Christianity is not racist at all, and it often say we are all the same in Christ. The same is true of mainstream Islam which rejects notion of racial superiority, ethnic, racial, and so on. Both of these religions were shaped in America among White racist and Black racists just says enough that they are way out of the norm of their respective religions they claim to be. Christian Identity and it's theology has zero to do with Christianity, well it's rooted in British Israelism. British Israelism were form of Protestant Christianity that tried to argue to make Christianity more Jewish like, Jews are from the house of Judah, and the British and some of the Germanic tribes are descendants from the House of Israel, for example they use laughable terms like Saxons meaning to be Issacsons, which indicate their Israelite origins. This eventually will lead to the influence of Christian Zionism among many WASP Evangelical sects especially in America, but the Israelite connection to the British and Germanics wither away, but not the Zionistic believes.

Here

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?48838-Christian-Zionism-and-it-s-British-origins

[LightHouse89]

I actually meant that obviously the white population is decreasing very fast in terms of proportions. The question I'm asking is when whites reach 10-20%, do you think you will be taken advantage of or do you think that they will respect your rights as a minority?

We most likely will be slaughtered. We can thank white liberals.

[Proto-Shaman]

We most likely will be slaughtered. We can thank white liberals.
What do you think about Democrats and Republicans? Do you believe they are two sides of one medal?

[LightHouse89]

What do you think about Democrats and Republicans? Do you believe they are two sides of one medal?

They are. They are both in the pockets of Jews here.

I only like Senator Cruz and Rand Paul thats it on the republican party. I like Ron Paul too. Other than that most politicians I dislike.

[Proto-Shaman]

They are. They are both in the pockets of Jews here.

I only like Senator Cruz and Rand Paul thats it on the republican party. I like Ron Paul too. Other than that most politicians I dislike.
I consider Jews just as a smokescreen (a puppet) which is used to hide the real background of the Pharaonic Elite, the incest elite which migrated from ancient Egypt and Babylonia to Rome and London and finally Washington DC. Most politicians around the world are puppets of this elite. Even if some politicians want to say the truth, they are doomed to death just like Kennedy and co. Did you ever heard of this Pharaonic Elite?

[LightHouse89]

I consider Jews just as a smokescreen (a puppet) which is used to hide the real background of the Pharaonic Elite, the incest elite which migrated from ancient Egypt and Babylonia to Rome and London and finally Washington DC. Most politicians around the world are puppets of this elite. Even if some politicians want to say the truth, they are doomed to death just like Kennedy and co. Did you ever heard of this Pharaonic Elite?

Free Masons? Yes. I do not trust them either. Some here say America died during the civil war. Technically it did.

[Neon Knight]

They are. They are both in the pockets of Jews here.

I only like Senator Cruz and Rand Paul thats it on the republican party. I like Ron Paul too. Other than that most politicians I dislike.What do you think of the Tea Party?

[Neon Knight]

According to this logic, European tradition is characterized by oversimplistic tribalism and daft superstition. Not only Middle Eastern, but Persian, as well as Chinese and Indian theology would end up being far more developed if one were to take your nativist approach (religion's birthplace is what matters exclusively).I said nothing to justify the conclusion you jump to. As an identitarian I think it is better (but not essential) for religions to be based upon or incorporate national traditions. How a religious tradition is interpreted will depend upon the sophistication of the leaders and followers.

[Neon Knight]

white people came from the middle east. :picard1:I didn't, I come from Lancashire :). People became white under the conditions of the holy North.

[Stimpy]

Will they murder people and leave their bodies hanging on trees aswell?

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsiGAC7oVl8