[QUOTE=IAO131]You really enlighten us with your asshole attitude too
IAO131[/QUOTE]
Thanks for contributing to our snark fest.
But really, there's just something wrong with the quote in question. Or is it just me?
"Asatru is thousands of years old (though it is practiced in a modern form today, to meet the needs of our age). Its beginnings are lost in prehistory, but it is older than Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or most other religions. The spirit it expresses, though, is as ancient as the northern European peoples themselves because it is an innate expression of who and what we are - not merely a set of arbitrary beliefs we have adopted."
On what do they base their assertions? As far as I know, there is no record of a religion called Asatru that existed thousands of years ago. If there was, we would know exactly what their magical tradition was. We don't. It's not just the beginnings that are lost in prehistory, it's the whole damn thing. :eh:
It reminds me too much of back in the day when Wiccans insisted their religion was also thousands of years old, older than Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. Everyone would like to believe that their religion was the first. This is such a simple point of view for something that is so complex. To get an idea of who was "first" you have to look back in history at the migration of the first peoples, their environment, their wars, who was conquered and assimilated... you have to take into account thousands of years of human civilizations and how they influenced each other. It's just not as simple as saying "we were here first".
There's just something about this statement that rings false, which means I'm now going to have to go research. *groans*
