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Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« on: September 28, 2016, 03:52:56 am »
Lately there has been a lot of hate popping up with groups like the afa. Nazi like crap is destroying the look of my religion and spreading misinformation and misleading people to think we are all racist bigots.

Hitler himself even said that he didn't care about the ancient Germans but just liked the symbols. He bastardized our religions symbols for the sake of him liking the look. Moreover, he murdered pagan Germans alongside the Jews if they were against his plan.

So as far as him trying to push Arian crap the Arians are not even from Germany. As well as other faulty logic people believe. If he truly cared about white Germans he would not have gased the pagans. He would have been a heathen. As far as being pure blood white, in order for this to happen in order for someone to be pure blooded white. There would have to be centuries of incest. Otherwise you would have different ethnicity mixed in somewhere down the line.

The people preaching hate in Asatru, most likely found the gods while in prison and learned by a skin head neo-Nazi. These people need to be disowned by all heathens.

We are supposed to be an honorable group. Not only that but our gods are cross dressing, shape shifting, animal fucking (Loki) lot who didn't care about your sex, or creed, or color. Hel if they really cared about being gay would they have cross dressed so much? If they really cared about color would they have mated with a horse a dog and a cow or a giant? No!
 
Prison Heathenry needs to be abolished! We as heathens need to make an effort to reach out and tell all of Midgard that we are not racist, gay hating bigots, we need to show them we are extremely peaceful. Unless we are in battle lol.
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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2016, 05:01:34 am »
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Hitler himself even said that he didn't care about the ancient Germans but just liked the symbols. He bastardized our religions symbols for the sake of him liking the look. Moreover, he murdered pagan Germans alongside the Jews if they were against his plan.


While that is true about Hitler himself (and several other Nazis, like Rosenberg), it isn't true about Himmler, Hess and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer. They all believed in (several different) pagan or occult belief systems, allegedly (not necessarily factually) rooted in pre-Christian Germanic beliefs.

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So as far as him trying to push Arian crap the Arians are not even from Germany.


At the time, Aryan (not Arian*) was used in the way we use the word Indo-European today. In general use, it got a narrower definition after 1945, when the general population wanted to distance themselves from how it had been used by the Nazis. But please note, that it wasn't the Nazis who invented the broader use of the word: It was in general use, then, and not necessarily with the associations to alleged superiority the Nazis (and a larger milieu around them) projected on the concept.

* The word Arian denotes a follower of the theology of Arius from Alexandria, an anti-nicene Christian theologian, who regarded Jesus as an elevated created spirit rather than God itself. The word Aryan - today - signifies someone who belonged to peoples who spoke Indo-Aryan languages in the 2nd (and hypothetically earlier) millennium BCE.

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2016, 05:23:31 am »
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Here in Sweden, racist and non-racist adherents of Old Norse Religion have gravitated to different denominations. In the 1990s, racists joined Swedish Pagan Front, while non-racists joined Swedish Asatru Assembly. The former one became defunct, and the latter one changed its name into Forn Sed Sweden Assembly, for a number of reasons. Very recently, a number of Asatruar with organisational ties to Neo-Nazi organisations formed a denomination of their own: Nordic Asa-Community.

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2016, 02:25:53 pm »
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Prison Heathenry needs to be abolished! We as heathens need to make an effort to reach out and tell all of Midgard that we are not racist, gay hating bigots, we need to show them we are extremely peaceful. Unless we are in battle lol.
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Well now wait a minute, no, I'm not comfortable calling for the restriction of faith of people just because they're in prison. They're still human beings, and the system already is set up so that non-racist heathens have to overcome the perception that the faith is inherently racist.

Also Darkhawk wrote an excellent answer to the question in your subject line. In the other thread, but basically heathenry came out of nationalism and has always had problematic racist issues and none of this is new.

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2016, 08:33:34 pm »
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 Prison Heathenry needs to be abolished!


That would be throwing the baby out with the bath water, IMHO. Racist Heathenry (and racist non-Heathen religions) need to be watched closely in prisons (it would be impossible to eliminate them unless you keep each prisoner incommunicado in solitary or the like). Prisoners are still human, however, and deserve to be treated as human.
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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2016, 11:45:54 pm »
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We as heathens need to make an effort to reach out and tell all of Midgard that we are not racist, gay hating bigots, we need to show them we are extremely peaceful.

 
What does this mean? How?

For me, I think the best way to combat hate is to live a life of love, set the example. Perhaps it's a disadvantage in this case that heathens aren't big into proselytizing.
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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2016, 09:00:00 am »
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What does this mean? How?

For me, I think the best way to combat hate is to live a life of love, set the example. Perhaps it's a disadvantage in this case that heathens aren't big into proselytizing.

 
This touches on what I see as the core of the issue:  The people who have the worst interpretations of things often are the loudest and most 'in your face'.  I don't necessarily think that the majority of Heathens have a practice centered on hate (I have no numbers, so I may be way off on this).  However, news always picks up the absolute worst stories...and Facebook does the same.  I will see easily 3 bad stories for every good one I see.  But when you really examine the bad stories, you will often see huge groups of great people who are opposed to the horrible stuff that is being reported....the focus is just always on the sensational bad stuff.
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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2016, 01:21:03 pm »
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The people who have the worst interpretations of things often are the loudest and most 'in your face'.


This is very true! And it is true about almost all religions.

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2016, 01:04:26 am »
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Lately there has been a lot of hate popping up with groups like the afa. Nazi like crap is destroying the look of my religion and spreading misinformation and misleading people to think we are all racist bigots.

Hitler himself even said that he didn't care about the ancient Germans but just liked the symbols. He bastardized our religions symbols for the sake of him liking the look. Moreover, he murdered pagan Germans alongside the Jews if they were against his plan.

So as far as him trying to push Arian crap the Arians are not even from Germany. As well as other faulty logic people believe. If he truly cared about white Germans he would not have gased the pagans. He would have been a heathen. As far as being pure blood white, in order for this to happen in order for someone to be pure blooded white. There would have to be centuries of incest. Otherwise you would have different ethnicity mixed in somewhere down the line.

The people preaching hate in Asatru, most likely found the gods while in prison and learned by a skin head neo-Nazi. These people need to be disowned by all heathens.

We are supposed to be an honorable group. Not only that but our gods are cross dressing, shape shifting, animal fucking (Loki) lot who didn't care about your sex, or creed, or color. Hel if they really cared about being gay would they have cross dressed so much? If they really cared about color would they have mated with a horse a dog and a cow or a giant? No!
 
Prison Heathenry needs to be abolished! We as heathens need to make an effort to reach out and tell all of Midgard that we are not racist, gay hating bigots, we need to show them we are extremely peaceful. Unless we are in battle lol.
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A lot of this was the result of work by Alfred Rosenberg, who advocated a sort of quasi-heathenism, based on an idea of German purity. His work was quite influential, such as his bool, 'Myths of the Twentieth Century.' However, Hitler himself had largely disavowed such movements.

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2016, 05:09:43 am »
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I just want to admire this sentence. It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2016, 07:03:11 am »
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I just want to admire this sentence. It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.


I can absolutely vouch for this. Cast asside assumptions of British folk in tophats and monicles. It is much more likely that you'll catch me in a dress in somebody's stag-do, hairy legs hanging out, necking local brews.

Back on topic: there is hatred to be found in all walks of life and in every religion I can think of. It is something that just happens. That does not mean it should be accepted though.
However, trying to forbid people from finding and sharing in your faith in prison because of the risk of racism isnt the right way to go about it.

I can recommend just staying away from the idiots and not associating with them, but that doesnt do much really. You could be active about it and try to get the word out into the public that we're not all neo-nazis if you feel inclined towards action.

Also, you can disown the neo-nazis within our faoth if you like, but really how much good would this do? It will do something between absolutely nothing ir make them shout louder about us being wrong.

 If you do seek action to resolve it then just make sure that action isnt fuelled by hate/disgust at the disagreeable elements of the faith. Then it would just be perpetuating the hate perceived within heathenry. I dont know if it is just me, but I used to find it pretty easy to hate things ;)

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2016, 07:04:31 pm »
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Also Darkhawk wrote an excellent answer to the question in your subject line. In the other thread, but basically heathenry came out of nationalism and has always had problematic racist issues and none of this is new.

 
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A lot of this was the result of work by Alfred Rosenberg, who advocated a sort of quasi-heathenism, based on an idea of German purity. His work was quite influential, such as his bool, 'Myths of the Twentieth Century.' However, Hitler himself had largely disavowed such movements.

 
This seems like a good time and place to toss an actual link to Darkhawk's post into this thread (so that people don't have to go digging around to figure out where, in the middle of a fractious 24-page thread, it can be found).

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2016, 01:19:29 pm »
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Here in Sweden, racist and non-racist adherents of Old Norse Religion have gravitated to different denominations. In the 1990s, racists joined Swedish Pagan Front, while non-racists joined Swedish Asatru Assembly. The former one became defunct, and the latter one changed its name into Forn Sed Sweden Assembly, for a number of reasons. Very recently, a number of Asatruar with organisational ties to Neo-Nazi organisations formed a denomination of their own: Nordic Asa-Community.

 
Hi, sorry but this is totally wrong and pure lies.
I am a member of the Nordic asa-community in Sweden. There is no ties, connections to any nazis. Or anything rasist about this organization. We even state on our website under values that: "We are writing course under the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights."
The only ones that like to spread this kind of false lying rumors are the jeaulous people of the dying organisation of fornsed. Do not let yourself be duped by this lies.
Look for yourself on our website or on our facebooksite. I hope admin delete the lies and not let them stand.

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Re: Why is there so much hate in Heathenry today?
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I hope admin delete the lies and not let them stand.

 
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Ok, so lie about other organizations to misscredit them and put there own organization in a good way by lying is not extreme? Hmm.. i would say that is far from the path of a asatru person. I would say that to do so you are disqualified from beeing a asatru beliver in the first way. But maybe that is only my way of thinking? I mean the belive of beeing righteous.
And second i have been specific, much more then the lying poster. He did not have any proof of anything, because there is none. Myu specific is to look at the work, postings, website, values, facebook and so on. There is nothing there to support his lies.
But I understand you. And i adress the former poster:
I call out the evidens of any nazi connections! Show them, show any support for your accusations or let the world know it is pure lies.!

That would had been the straight up reply from people in the first place, show the evidens. Nobody shuld be able to say things like that without evidens.
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