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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.religion.asatru,talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan
From: jabowery@netcom.com (Jim Bowery)
Subject: Re: ABillings: Asatru (was - Re: Pagan minorities)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 20:06:29 GMT
nagasiva (tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com) wrote:
: [from alt.pagan: mimir@speakeasy.org (Al Billings)]
: There are fringeoids that have been involved in Asatru in the past or who
: are on the edge of the "mainstream" in Asatru that attempt to use Asatru
: for racist or political purposes.
Please note, "racist" in Al Billings' lexicon means that common ancestry
outside of one's close relatives, is an important aspect of one's
religious practices.
This means the majority of African tribal religions are "racist".
You may, by that definition and that definition alone, call me a "racist".
You must also call the founder of the Odinic Rite, the Odinist
Fellowship, the Viking Brotherhood (progenitor of the Asatru Free Assembly),
the Asatru Alliance and the Icelandic Asatru founder, Sveinbjorn
Beinteinsson.
Here are some words from the Beinteinsson memorial issue of Vor Tru by
Thorsteinn Thorarinsson:
"It is very interesting that in 1972 both Beinteinsson and McNallen
started their own Asatru organizations, unknown at first to each other.
Else Christensen also started the Odinist Movement at that time.
Although Rud Mills is said to be the founder of the modern Nordic
revival, it was Sveinbjorn who must be credited in my estimation, with
fulfilling the old Icelandic prophesy of the revival of the Old Norse
Religion in Iceland and the Germanic World."
In Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson's words:
"This religion or WAY OF LIFE [emphasis JB] is the response of the people
of Northern latitudes and how they expose to nature. And the
historical background of the religion goes much further back than we
know. Especially this is the religion of the Germanic peoples, and
specifically the Scandanavian people. This was their way in the olden
time to interpret the world around them. They have seen the godhead in
human form, colored by the environment in our country and in northern
latitudes, specifically."
At present, Al Billings is correct, Asatru has been overrun by people who
define "racism" in his terms and who not only consider the unique
characteristics of northern bloodlines to be unimportant to preserve --
but who consider those who would take conscious, peaceful, steps to preserve
those bloodlines to be the moral spawn of Hitler.
--
The promotion of politics exterminates apolitical genes in the population.
The promotion of frontiers gives apolitical genes a route to survival.
Change the tools and you change the rules.
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