[freedumb2003]

"It's a theology that celebrates raw physical power and domination, and that is why I think it is so popular among prison inmates

Still beats the heck out of following the moon-god worhipping pedophile muhammed (may he rot in hell between 2 pigs for all eternety) and the accursed evil text the quran.

[bboop]

Oh, I get it. Chuck Colson cannot set up a Christian ministry in the prisons, but they can have Norse gods. Probably chaplains, too, paid for by the taxpayers. Exactly what part of this makes any sense at all?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

The Norse world view was not based in science or reason, and was typified by the capricious and the grotesque (the idealized ugly.)

The Norse gods were like supermen, but they could die. The Norse believed they lived in a world populated by giants, dwarves, monsters, faries, gnomes, and ghosts. These were, of course, not well disposed towards man.

The chief god, Odin--deceitful and clever--was the god of nobility. Thor was not terribly swift, but was strong and controlled the weather; he was the god of farmers and bumpkins.

In their violent Germanic world fighting skills and fortitude were valued, and loyalty to ones leader. These are probably the features that make it attractive to prisoners. They were fatalistic, and had an escatology that ended with an apocalyptic fight to death and ruin with the "sons of Surt" who lived in the warm regions of middle earth.
This new religion is pick and choose of course, and constitutes a pretty thorough rejection of civilization. What do they believe about trolls and fairies in prison I wonder?