Posted on 12/23/2020 6:05:05 PM PST by White Lives Matter
Murdock, Minnesota's City Council voted 3-1 to grant permit allowing Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) to gather at former Lutheran church
AFA practices a pre-Christian, European spirituality that revolves around Norse gods; it only admits white people with northern European descent
Southern Poverty Law Center has added AFA to its list of hate groups
Critics of AFA have launched an online petition seeking to stop it, which so far has drawn more than 123,000 signatures
Murdock officials said rejecting AFA's permit request could have violated its religious rights and led to an expensive legal battle
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A place to worship is unique in a sense that you can be discriminatory.
Freedom of association.
If whites wish to self segregate, then that is their right.
Other races do this with impunity daily.
On a side note: I have had SPLC on my list of hate groups... for as long as I can remember.
They use this line on their site: a history of protecting society’s most vulnerable.
I am curious..... are they protecting the unborn?
“Pre-Christian, European spirituality”
European spirituality existed before, during, and after Christianity. The author could just as accurately said “pre-Muslim” or any other religion. Why tie it to Christianity? The only religion pre-Christian would be Jewish.
If we have Black Lives Matter groups then we should be able to have whites only churches
You have to give old Morris credit though.
He’s milked 10s of millions for himself out of that scam over almost 5 decades.
I agree wholeheartedly!
LOL Pagans are a hate group? culture for everyone but not for thee, white boy. Even cultures that had no exposure to black folk at all must kneel to BLM. How nutty is that?
(forgiving of course those rare Vikings, known as the Varangian Guard, that traveled to Constantinople to fight for the Romans and to transport and sell iron, timber and British slaves)
Sounds like these guys think the comic “Asterix” is an illustrated history text.
Which kind of begs the question on Christianity... Being a Judaic faith from the Middle East...
For hundreds of years... Christians were good at trying to erase any Faith not theirs.
Everyone of a certain age hears Wagner when they see that .gif.
Not that it stops anyone here from just deriding anyone who doesn't conform...
So if there are black only organizations, will they be labeled as a hate group as well?
I often wonder what would happen if a bunch of whites got together and started sending one or two new white families to a particular black church and keep adding more every week. How long would it take before the blacks would either stop attending that church or the church leaders would ask the whites to leave. Would it be after the first week? Would it last a month? Would they allow whites to become the majority of the church membership? It would be interesting to find out. As a Christian I would hope neither would happen but I don’t have faith that it wouldn’t. It would be an interesting experiment but the results might be disappointing. I for one have become very turned off by churches due to very disappointing events and un-Christian treatment by pastors and other church members and along with being a Baptist who follows the true sabbath (Saturday) I have been reluctant to attend any church although I do enjoy being around fellow believers who do not pretend to be Christian and attend church for the wrong reasons.
I dunno. Are they separatists or supremacists, or maybe neither? I’m not sure a racial separatist movement would qualify as a classic hate group.
It’s not as if I — mostly White, 1/16 Native American/First Nation/Amerindian/Whatever — am being forced to attend that particular church.
I would certainly doubt that they are protecting poor Whites in the Appalachian mountains and other traditionally “underserved” rural areas.
This is racist but all black churches are totally fine.
I’d rather watch re-runs of Vikings.
Me to.
They are just "pro" worship of their Gods and their Ancestors. They actually approve of others worshiping their own ancestral religions.
They existed long before the neo-pagan revival attempts in the wake of The Craft movie and had some rather harsh things to say about the more recent Vikings TV show on the History channel.
I have not yet met anyone who claims to be a member though, nor am I affiliated with them.
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