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Denmark to Accept Norse God Marriages (Pagan religion officially recognized)
Newsday ^
| 11/06/03
| Jan Olsen
Posted on 11/06/2003 11:12:11 AM PST by MikalM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Home to the Vikings of yore, Denmark said Wednesday it will let a group that worships Thor, Odin and other Norse gods conduct legally-recognized marriages.
"To me, it would be wrong if the indigenous religion of this country wasn't recognized," Tove Fergo, the minister for Ecclesiastic Affairs and a Lutheran priest, told The Associated Press.
Under Danish law, the state Evangelical Lutheran Church has sole authority to recognize other religious communities.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christian; denmark; lutheran; marriage; norse; odin; pagan; religion; scandinavia; viking
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:12:12 AM PST
by
MikalM
To: MikalM
What about the Norse God funerals?
To: MikalM
Did Walt Simonson write their Bible?
To: MikalM
I can get married by the Viking Kittens?
To: Semper Paratus
Good question! Are they going to get Viking funerals, too, or would that violate some wacko environmental laws?
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:17:09 AM PST
by
wimpycat
To: Semper Paratus
Aren't they the one's with the ceremony where they nail the bride's pigtails to the wall and the groom cuts her loose by throwing axes?
To: MikalM
Somebody's been playing Age of Mythology just a little too much.
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:17:29 AM PST
by
Grig
To: MikalM
"I'm a viking! And I've come to take your land, oh yes! I've come to take your land, and I've come to burn your crops and steal your horses. And I've come to ... step on your chickens! And soil your quilts!"
-Pa Grape as a Viking in "Veggie Tales"
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:19:14 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: MikalM
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:19:38 AM PST
by
El Conservador
("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
To: shadowman99
Yeah. Do the Viking Kittens do secularist or orthodox Norse weddings?
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:20:17 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: MikalM
Getting married by Thor kinda gets the marriage off to a rocky start.
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:20:32 AM PST
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(If everything you experienced, believed, lived was a lie, would you want to know the truth?)
To: MikalM
Some still vociferously protested the ban on "Gay Norse Marriages"
To: expat_panama
Aren't they the one's with the ceremony where they nail the bride's pigtails to the wall and the groom cuts her loose by throwing axes?LOL Isn't that a Viking Bachelor Party?
To: Semper Paratus
Isn't that a Viking Bachelor Party?No wait, I was thinking about the 'quicky norse divorce'.
To: MikalM
How appropriate, today is Thor's Day, I mean Thursday.
You know maybe we're not that far away from Paganism.
Now excuse me while I take down my Halloween decorations and put up some Winter Solstice, I mean Christmas decorations.
To: MikalM
Hold ma flagon hon!
OOHWEE! Let's go berzerker and have a honeymoon in Ireland the way they used to! Where did I put the keys to the dragon ship? Seen my helm laying around anywhere?
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:27:12 AM PST
by
Lee Heggy
(Make God laugh...tell him your plans.)
To: MikalM
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:31:40 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
("Right-wing Internet wacko")
To: Lee Heggy
It's Thorsday - I need to wear my weejuns?
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posted on
11/06/2003 11:32:58 AM PST
by
talleyman
(Caviar emptor (a warning from the sturgeon general))
To: shadowman99
Or how 'bout the Swedish Bikini Team ?
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
11/06/2003 12:04:29 PM PST
by
MikalM
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