Introduction to Asatru Folk Assembly
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Primer to the Asatru Folk Assembly, archived from the original in 2004.
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2004
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Webpage
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perceived enemies
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Any religion which walks outside the mainstream faces the prospect of ridicule in modern Western society. Even the dominant monotheists - Christians, Muslims, and Jews - come in for their share of teasing and even scorn at the hand of the irreverent.
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The myth of peaceful Christian conversion smothers the truth, hides the bodies of the pagan Saxon aristocracy slaughtered murdered by Charlemagne, stifles the cries of the killed and maimed and exiled in Norway who would not submit, and ignores the burning sacred groves of our ancestors and the corpses of those who worshipped in them.
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controversial, offensive, or dehumanizing speech
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Thousands of years later, the worshippers of Yahweh are still claiming that same blood-soaked soil as their right.
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Looking at this record of intolerance, genocide, and narrow-mindedness, it is hard to claim that monotheism, in and of itself, has bestowed any blessing on mankind.
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Religious war was unknown in Europe until the coming of Christianity - and since that time, sectarian strife has not ceased…as the residents of Northern Ireland can testify.
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Tragically, we are taught that the Jewish and Christian religions are the sources of our freedoms - when these two monotheisms have historically been the greatest enemies of our ancient liberties!
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The Bible makes an attempt to portray its God as a father, and humans as his sons and daughters, but what really comes through is the idea of God as a patriarchal and arbitrary dictator of the kind popular in the Middle East.
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