Posted on 11/30/2021 12:30:25 PM PST by Cronos
Stephen McNallen’s path to founding a racist, whites-only church now headquartered in the foothills north of Sacramento started with fantasy novels and, eventually, found a measure of infamy through the discovery of an ancient skeleton
McNallen, the 73-year-old founder of the Asatru Folk Assembly, was an avid reader of sword-and-sorcery novels like “Conan the Barbarian” when he was in college in the late 1960s in Wichita Falls, Texas. One summer in a corner of a bookstore, he found something that would put him on the path to creating a U.S.-based church that worships Norse gods such as Thor and Odin and preaches a racial ideology so extreme the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed it a hate group. The book by Edison Marshall was called “The Viking” — historical fiction that became the basis for a 1958 film starring Kirk Douglas. The story centers around the expansion of Christianity in Northern Europe and its violent challenge to pagan Viking traditions.
...Asatru’s leaders describe their faith as merely a way for white people to reconnect with an ancient belief system practiced by their European ancestors.
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They hate Christianity.
I bet the toads complaining about Asatru never complained about Black Muslims...
Or Kwanzaa, which is for blacks only and is not open to members of any other race.
There are a few non-Christian groups that call themselves "churches" such as the "Church" of Scientology.
I read the entire article and saw nothing racist about the group. They are just ethnocentric which is something only whites are not allowed to be.
They appear to be harmless and go out of their way to screen out extremists. They are hated by the SPLC which is a point in their favor. They also appear to have kept FBI agents and informants at bay which is another feather in their cap (horned or unhorned).
I don’t recall seeing any blacks on the History Channel Viking series.
You will.
The TV series Camelot (2011) featured some black knights in King Arthur's court, albeit mostly standing in the background.
Sounds like the SPLC needs a new bugaboo since no one pays attention to the Westboro “Baptist” “church” anymore.
Racist or just separatist?
Do they share the same views about Native American ceremonies and practices, or are people of different ethnicities allowed to participate in all of those as well?
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