It sucks that it didn't survive the christian purges, and it sucks that it didn't spread further than it did. Can you imagine having giant temples of Odin and shit in place of West minster Abbey and St Pauls cathedral?
How would Europe have looked? Would science have progressed as far as it did if Pagans controlled most of Europe?
Because Norse would sign up under whatever religion you want. From Norse to Catholicism, to Protestantism, to Socialism, to Muslimism. It's just that simple.
Anthony Rogers
gay
Luke Roberts
I like how modern people are more attached to norse religion than Norsemen themselves were. Sweyn Forkbeard was a viking yet he built fucking churches.
Aiden White
So their relgion was just sort of a hobby to them? They weren't as devout as christians or mudslimes?
Jace Adams
Considering how easily they assimilated and converted then yeah they weren't nearly as devouted.
All pagan religions were just a hobby. Only Abrahamics take it seriously.
Jaxon Robinson
Yeah because everyone loves to replicate icelandic culture. ISIS will lay down their arms in the next ten years or so in order to worship Odin.
It's a good start though.
Mason Scott
>According to Statistics Iceland, membership in the neo-pagan religion has grown nearly eightfold in the last 15 years, from just over 300 people in 1999 to nearly 2,400 last year. In a country of approximately 325,000 people, the Asatru Association claims more followers than the Mormon, Buddhist, Islamic and Russian Orthodox faiths combined. breddy_good.jpg
Mason Edwards
their religion was kinda shit anyway.
Christianity offers eternal salvation, happiness and everything, you can't compete with welfare gods.
Jaxson Miller
Vikings were a shit, hellenism and its synthesis with egypt and rhine-germanic concepts is where its at.
Jordan Gonzalez
>Muslimism lulz
Alexander Flores
>neo-paganism The fucking teen werewolves of religion.
Jaxson Gutierrez
They converted without ever being really conquered. Retard pagan LARPers try to potray them as ISIS tier fanatically devout people but for the most parts they didn't give a fuck.
Mason Cruz
they just turned protestant. - the germanic language tree - anglo-saxonism - muh normans etc
Austin Reyes
More like the Insane Clown Posse of religion. 99% of pagans are just former atheists / anti-theists.
Adam Robinson
You know they were Catholic for hundreds of years before becoming protestant, right?
Anthony Sullivan
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Jason Reyes
Why do fucking white teenage neckbears worship these fucking seaniggers?
Jackson Morris
nope
Nolan Murphy
>Can you imagine having giant temples of Odin and shit in place of West minster Abbey and St Pauls cathedral?
if that was the case you'd be posting the opposite. "i have to go to sunday school to learn about yggdrasil again, lame. i wish the christians conquered the world instead, did you know they worshiped a corpse on a stick? so fucking metal"
Isaac Carter
Two reasons: romantic nationalism (vikingbooism was really popular in 19th century Denmark and Sweden) and Viking imagery constantly being used by metal bands, movies and videogames. Naturally it attracts retarded teenagers.
Nathan King
deserts are cold in the winter
Levi Walker
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Michael Allen
Viking religion, like Gaelic religion, was more a set of customs and rituals than a faith based thing. Shinto is comparable.
If these religions were 'Christianised' and made formal doctrines, then those doctrines would probably appear to us as more intolerant and violent than Islam. A Norse religion would have probably held Fate to be the highest of all powers, and Odin as the chief god because he sacrificed his eye and his life to understand its workings.
Levi Gonzalez
>Naturally it attracts retarded teenagers. retarded teenagers willing to die swinging a claymore
Austin Long
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Lucas Garcia
It turns my stomach seeing twenty-odd year old people, near-adolescent themselves, shit talking da siwwy teens, as though they were any different. You still have the mind of a little boy.
Noah Lee
Nope what?
Andrew Scott
t. buttblasted neopagan
Jaxon Perez
That's because viking aren't a real ethnic group but a term for people who go on raiding.
Although the descendants of the guys who went viking are still alive today.
>it didn't spread further than it did Scandiwegians did, kind of. They established the Rus in the east and to Normandy to the west, they went very far. If you're talking about religion though, I don't think paganism can spread like Christianity did, Christianity was more organized and pagan people tended to worship the God of their own Ethnic groups instead of adapting other Gods of different cultures and ethnic groups.
>Can you imagine having giant temples of Odin No, not really. I can imagine it with the greeks and romans, but not the germanics. The Germanics tended to use wood as construction material, even their churches were made of wood.
>How would Europe have looked? Would science have progressed as far as it did if Pagans controlled most of Europe? I don't know, I can't seriously think of a Europe without it's Christian background. Because of the great influence of Christianity to Western culture and civilization.
I can understand the appeal, I was also interested in the paganism of my ethnic group, and went around ethnic nationalist circles until I realized that they were just a bunch of leftists that can't stop whining about everything.
In the end neo-pagans are just worshipping dead Gods in ruined Temples. It's a dead religion it should probably stay that way.
Evan Hill
Exogamous community family strong.
Jacob Fisher
>implying a vikingboo would use a claymore and not just grab a shitty wood cutting axe
John Sanders
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Angel Wright
>buttblasted
See what I mean? You talk about retarded teens and then come out with cringeworthy shit like 'buttblasted'. You're a grown man now, start acting like one.
Also I'm a lapsed Catholic.
Cameron Campbell
society was organised around mass funding metalurgy armement for thousands of years/for all of space and time
Ryder Fisher
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Alexander Wright
You realize they're talking about vikingboos and not about vikings themselves you fucking retard?
Camden Gray
>Turkey >Cousin marriage is prevalent Why am I not surprised
Easton Roberts
This
Logan Gomez
That caption about them competing for followers is misleading; it's not like the Anglican church was proselytizing Lutherans...
Thomas Wright
It's just a meme. It will die out.
Lincoln Perry
yup, it's just reddit atheists having a laugh, like jedi-ism or the spaghetti monster or whatever
Henry Price
Greco-Roman is far superior
Camden Watson
fug off homo :-DDD
Mason Williams
Are either of you actually Icelandic?
Because some countries especially in the north still feel a deep connection their old religion and much of it has been passed down in their traditions, hell even in England there are lots of pagan rituals that are still done just because that's what we've always done or its been repackaged as a Christian thing.
In Iceland I can imagine it has a very strong connection since they were relatively late in conversion. You have to remember in most European countries the peasantry continued to follow the old religion way up to the 18th century.
Luis White
profligate
Adrian Williams
t. Russel Brand
Landon Jones
>leds go higing cladius :-DDD
>o fugg
Matthew Allen
t. edgelord born in the wrong generation XDD
James Gomez
These people are idiots who know nothing about its original purpose and desecrate the site. Nice strawman argument by the way.
Elijah Butler
>Tuesday, 12 July 2016 >Tuesday aka Tiwesdæg the day of Tiw the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory fucking neopagan calendar dates
Brayden White
>18th century. Source. Inb4 Samis Inb4 pagan concepts reframed as superstitions aka "redcap killerdwarfes are repelled by the cross"
Owen Price
t. x14xRAGNAR GREYWULFx88x
Joshua Lee
Kys judeo-christian LARP baiters.
The mere fact alone that judeo-christians used to burn entire heathen villages in Scandinavia to the ground and then put their inhabitants on the stake goes to show that there was heavy resistance against christianization up to the high middle ages.
Also in Iceland and some parts of Sweden people still spoke old norse and literally wrote in futhark runic like their ancestors up until the early 19th century.
The renaissance proved that the pagan spirit had never been dead. Shit-tier LARPing christians just utilized pagan traditions and rebranded them shamelessly
My god carries a hammer, yours was a filthy non-white kike nailed to a stick
Judeo-shitstianity BTFO
Jordan Nelson
Then who does the High One prefer?
Mason Harris
For being /his, people sure don't know SHIT about history, it's painful to read these comments, so painful.
Please just read some books, instead of discussing and assuming history with other idiots.
Pic related, you belong here.
Chase Cooper
chill out dildo
Jack Reed
Yeah have you ever wondered why the converted so easily?
Nathan Phillips
What do you guys mean just a hobby? Like astrology is today? Some people would go on ocasion to their local shaman to get a prophecy and atend festivals like in the viking series?
Carson Walker
>Vikingboo posting on Veeky Forums
Is this bannable? Reported anyways
sage
Bentley Thomas
>ended up losing the war
Except they did not
As i already pointed out above, in rural pockets of northern europe usage of the futhark and other heathen traditions continued well into the modern industrial period, after which the reconstructed Asatru faith took over.
So "the war" as you call it is still going on as of right now, it never stopped in the first place
Noah Ortiz
If baganism wasn't destroyed, why did Aspertu need to reconstruct it?
Hudson Anderson
Because kings wanted Christian shekels and forced it on their people to varying degrees of success and violence.
Landon Murphy
It's better than your rubbish gods like Steven god of bread
Noah King
I don't have a dog in this fight, but Christians (assuming you are one) literally taking pride in indulging in ISIS tier cultural destruction only add to the pagan argument that Abrahamic religions are essentially the same.
Asher Robinson
Actually most Northerners were converted by Anglo-Saxon missionaries like Boniface (Wynfrith) and Willibrord.
Jason Gonzalez
How could you possibly say paganism didn't lose the war when all the Northern Kingdoms became Christian to the point where as you say only pockets of people still followed it.
Leo Foster
As a Christian, I am always encouraged to see truth drive out lies.
Matthew James
And norse pillagers taking pride in their brave battles against untrained monks is literally nigger tier.
Juan Myers
They reconstructed it from the authentic remnants that survived the centuries, as i already pointed out multiple times by now. I don't know if you're just autistic or genuinely don't understand this but it's a historical fact.
They picked up those remnants, studied the historical sources such as Snorri, the icelandic sagas and so on and then just went from there. The end result is highly identical, if not even better than the original norse germanic faith.
Thus, judeo-shitstianity has been BTFO once more
Jeremiah Gutierrez
>g you are one) literally taking pride in indulging in ISIS tier cultural destruction only add to the pagan argument that Abrahamic religions are essentially the same.
This. From what I can tell there seems to be a genocidal ideology underlying all the Abrahamic religions. Just look what happens when any of those groups gets any real military power. You get murderous genocide as a result of resistance to conversion. Convert or Die, that is the mantra
Anthony Adams
>judeo-christians used to burn entire heathen villages in Scandinavia
And you know the people burning them were Norsemen, right? Further proof the alpha Norsemen converted to Christianity and BTFO of the treehugging scum.
Levi Ramirez
"Losing" a war implies that no forces willing or able to fight are left and that an instrument of surrender is signed - Neither of which did happen in this imaginary "war" of yours.
The ultimate truth of the matter is that europe was never "christianized" in the first place - On the contrary, it was christianity that has been europeanized after it first invaded.
It doesn't resemble original judeo-abrahamic desert christianity anymore because it got assimilated by the pagan european tradition and most adherents of aspergstianity are too dumb to realize this, such as yourself.
Hudson Kelly
Highly identical you say? When was the last time you threw someone into a bog?
John Campbell
>this is what aspergstians actually believe
Lel
"Christianity, sprung from Jewish roots and comprehensible only as a growth on this soil, represents the counter-movement to any morality of breeding, of race, privilege: it is the anti-Aryan religion par excellence. Christianity—the revaluation of all Aryan values, the victory of chandala values, the gospel preached to the poor and base, the general revolt of all the downtrodden, the wretched, the failures, the less favored, against 'race:' the undying chandala hatred is disguised as a religion of love."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Jaxson Howard
*tips fedora*
Jeremiah Rogers
When's the last time you stoned a motherfucker to death for working on the sabbath?
Austin Green
When was the last time you burned an ebul heathen witch at the stake?
kys
Noah Sullivan
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Jonathan Ortiz
Enjoy hell
Ethan Ortiz
Jesus never did that.
Isaac Foster
No the metaphorical war does not imply that the pagans got together and the Christians got together and collectively declared war on each other, it just means the followers of the two faiths were constantly fighting each other with the objective of either wiping the other faith out or conquering then for various motives.
The pagans lost because their lands became majority Christian, the governments of their lands became Christian, and they became totally and absolutely irrelevant. Of course Christinanity changed as all things such as culture do, it changed in some ways to better apply to Europe, but it sure as fuck did not become pagan.
Also what does this blond chick in a childish blue dress have to do with anything, is she some dumb neo-pagan postergirl?
David Diaz
>christian purges this happened a lot, but not in Scandinavia. the vikings were already converting en masse during their golden age
Christopher Perez
I prefer the word vikiboos
Sebastian Richardson
This board is forbidden 18+ only
Joshua Morales
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Michael Brooks
>Nietzsche
Into the trash
Blake Miller
>Why casn't Vikings still exist They sort of do, in the form of Somali pirates. They weren't one sole ethnic group, just raiders who raped and pillaged, and weren't really doing it for their gods.
Also modern neo-germanic pagans are pretty much LARPers that say or post cringy shit like this >My god carries a hammer, yours was a filthy non-white kike nailed to a stick
>Giant temples of Odin Wouldn't ever happen, this was primarily done by Hellenics.
Alexander Davis
>My god carries a hammer, yours was a filthy non-white kike nailed to a stick
Adam Howard
>(vikingbooism was really popular in 19th century Denmark and Sweden Typical for europeanised libertines like them, here in Norway romanticism was pastoral and the isolated mountain peasant was the ideal, as one could expect from a good, christian and non-european nation.
Brody Morris
My God also exists.
Ayden Ortiz
Go away America, stop inventing things about our culture
Anthony Bennett
Thats just because norway was continually dominated militarily, safer to dream of fluffy sheep and cottages instead...
Blake Butler
:^)
Michael Turner
(^:
Daniel James
>even in England there are lots of pagan rituals that are still done just because that's what we've always done or its been repackaged as a Christian thing. lelwut m8
yea shaggin yer mum is a pagan ritual
Lincoln Johnson
more so like Shintoism
Juan Turner
>Would science have progressed as far as it did if Pagans controlled most of Europe?
>Viking way of practicing science >Observe your neighbours >Search a smart neighbour >Wait until the smart neighbour produce an invention/discovery >ODIN VULT! >Stole the invention/discovery