Posted on 07/18/2018 11:55:30 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
About 1000 years ago, paganism was practically stamped out in Iceland, while Christianity was ushered in. But Nordic neopaganism, under the name of Ásatrúarfélagið (sometimes called Asatru), has now become the fastest growing belief system in the country. And after years in the making, the believers of this faith are on the brink of worshipping in their first temple.
Business Insider Nordic reports the statistics on just how fast Ásatrúarfélagið has grown, From 570 members in 2002, the association of the faith of the Æsir Ásatrúarfélagið now numbers 3900 Icelanders, making it the largest non-Christian religion in the country.
The Ásatrúarfélagiðs first temple, built to honor Odin and Thor, is expected to be ready by the end of 2018. The temple was originally set to be built in 2016, but technical problems have delayed construction work. It is designed by Icelandic architect and Ásatrúarfélagið member Magnús Jensson and will be in Reykjavik.
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From what I’ve read there’s little to none surviving accounts as to what their actual rituals were. Any ritual performed now would be 99% fiction. So yes cos-play or dress up done by grown children.
Exactly.
From 1517 we start off with
This was inevitable.
It was a few years ago but I don't think I said that.
I said that the current crop are posers who have no idea what their worship requires at least in the historical sense.
I would give you a detailed run down but I have to scram if I want to be on time for evening service so let me know if you want to talk more about ancient religions.
One of my favorite subjects.
30 years ago I saw the rise in my generation of neo paganism most were at best unreligious people who would claim to worship the old gods becouse it sounded cool to say. for a lot of theses individuals they are Larping at it and not serius. I am sure that some are serious but not many. Start talking philosophical with a lot of theses so called pagans and they turn off becouse they truly dont want enlightenment the want a magical belief system that does not call for self examination.
When I left home for college in ‘68, there were students who were into the cosplay and make-believe, too-they claimed to be into paganism, Eastern religion or a mix of both, but they didn’t seem to really know much about any of it other than to dress up in what they thought pagans had worn, get drunk and/or stoned, get naked, dance around fires in the woods, have sex, etc-even as a clueless country girl, it looked like dress up and make believe to me-this Iceland thing sounds pretty much the same...
Sure, I focus on indo European religions and Semitic pre Judaic. No idea about African or East Asian pantheons
Well, if they are only going to build it in a thousand years, I can wait.
Ain’t nothin’ to do with anything jesus-ee, it is something to do with honoring their ancestral HERITAGE, amidst the EU lemmings rush to import and embrace all those mohammedans.
I say good for them.
the conversion of Iceland was a community decision. And Christianity gave people an alternative to the murderous blood feuds at that time.
But Iceland has a below replacement birth rate, so give it a century or two and the immigrants will replace them. Most of these immigrants come from Noric countries but the largest percentage of immigrants are Polish (20 thousand or more), and the immigrants include a thousand Filipinos.
Meaning that there is a small but growing Catholic Christian population there.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/once-homogenous-tiny-iceland-opens-its-doors-immigrants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_Iceland
https://www.facebook.com/FilipinoIcelandicAssociation
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