How to screw up a religion

[Wolfpoet]

I was looking for some source materials when i found this little abomination:

http://business.gorge.net/zdkf/vikings/nlt-law.html

WTF!

Here is a classic example of Religous cross-fertilisation. Trying to mix Christianity and Nordic culture, a very fundamentalist version of Christianity at that!

Surprisngly enough the website is of American origin and I find their use of the British flag deeply insulting. When will the pain end?

[shuvanilu]

WTH?? That web page was more than weird. Where do people get their ideas??---shuvanilu

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

... If I didn't have a head cold and therefore could focus for more than five minutes, I would probably have said something about how freakin WEIRD that site is. Which religion is it promoting, Christianity or Nordic pagans?

[Nitefalle]

Ya, I didn't get it either, especially when it said that the "Northmen" (whatever that means) were the first to support Ecclesiastical Law. Umm......no? If I'm not mistaken, weren't most Scandinavians and Northern peoples *forced* to convert? And how in the hell is the author going to quote a gospel to say that the Lutherans had a good idea?!?!? Matthew had no freakin' idea what a Lutheran was, as the Protestant reformation took place CENTURIES after the Bible was written......what a crackhead.

[Meadhbh]

That had to be the weirdest thing I've read all day. Of course its still early.

[Cindlady2]

Thinks people who came up with site......... a bit confused.

[_Banbha_]

I guess some Christians want to celebrate and adapt Norse culture into their own unique perspective.

The historical basis, not that they need one, is the post-conversion peroid? Here's a snippet:


NOW, as We are set on bringing a RETURN of the NORTHMEN, the question becomes: WHAT DID NORTHMEN BASE THEIR LAWS ON? Without question, the Pagan Vikings thought that the Folk Ways should rule, and in fact, their groups all too often degenerated into that struggle to determine the fittest (with the might of arms being the determiner of justice). However the GahTSK, or Northern Peoples of God (from whom we like to base Our Ideals) were, also without question, followers of Divine Nordic Law (God's Law). For, their Rules and Regulations were based on the Holy Scriptures, as the Divine expression of God's Will for what Man should do. (And, that story of Mount Sinai was commonly told.) :foh:

[coaxialkettle]

this is a joke(or so i hope it should be) to discredit all "organized" "churches" in favour of Direct
Revelation whatever that is, but surely no one could take this raving rant
Siriusly??? but then,in the land of the blind,the one eyed is king...

[Evendusk]

This site struck me as justifying white supremacy without actually coming out and saying it.

[_Banbha_]

This site struck me as justifying white supremacy without actually coming out and saying it.

It wouldn't surprize me at all. I really didn't want to go further than the first couple of paragraphs.

[Dale Ivarie]

That's very very funny. There are alot of people who have a strong belief in a particular religion and then want to blend it with a cultural heritage that does stem from the same source. People are irrational, funny creatures. The problem is they take themselves so seriously.
Kinda like people that try and follow ancient Celtic spirituality, while being vegetarian pacifists. A vegetarian, pacifist is a great moral stance to take. It doesn't exactly mesh with the ancient celts. I don't think a pacifist would last real long in an ancient celtic tribe.
Boudicca, celtic warrior woman, sliced the throats of her own children rather than let the romans use them as a bargining chip. So much for benevolent female leaders.
It's a crazy, crazy world, but that keeps it from being boring.

I don't think there is much else to say...but...glad I'm not growing up in one of the families that adheres to the precepts of that website...yikes...it would hurt my little head.


Dale

[coaxialkettle]

a Lot went down in Keltia over the last four to five thousand years or so...
The tragedy is that we tend to ascribe "primitive"traits to cultures
beyond our grasp,much in the same ways as animals get "Disneyified"in the card index
part of the analyzing mind we have grown all-too-accustomed to.The second hand "echoes" that reach us though pedantic surface scratches is not making us capable of preserving even our own integrity if we stay that myopic.

[Hærfest Leah]

I say one word describes that site.. TRASH!

[mtpathy]

and this boys and girls is how the internet religions are formed, spend enough
time hunting online for such keywords as "whitelighters",and "indigo children",
"vampyre hungers" and you'll find 100's if not 1000's of websites that are just
as misinformed or just plain makes the info up as they go along..

[Carla O'Harris]

Kinda like people that try and follow ancient Celtic spirituality, while being vegetarian pacifists. A vegetarian, pacifist is a great moral stance to take. It doesn't exactly mesh with the ancient celts.

I suppose that depends on whether one is inspired by and dreaming on ancient Celtic spirituality, or whether one is trying to conform to ancient sociological expectations. Exchanging conformity in the present for conformity in the past seems silly to me, but then again, I'm someone who values critical thinking and not conforming to something lock, stock, and barrel.

[PeatBog]

Actually, that website doesn't surprise me. Lutheranism is the official state religion in Norway, and many Norwegian-Americans are Lutheran, but join organizations like this to partake of their viking heritage. This Northman organization looks like it has some more partaking than a Sons of Norway lodge though. (I didn't read through the whole website page so maybe there's something I missed that's causing reaction. I dunno.)

... just to add, their version of viking heritage looks real bogus :viking: , but to each their own.

[morningstar2651]

I was looking for some source materials when i found this little abomination:

http://business.gorge.net/zdkf/vikings/nlt-law.html

WTF!

Here is a classic example of Religous cross-fertilisation. Trying to mix Christianity and Nordic culture, a very fundamentalist version of Christianity at that!

Surprisngly enough the website is of American origin and I find their use of the British flag deeply insulting. When will the pain end?Does one half-arse Christian plus one half-arse Nordic equal one arse, or two half-arses?

[9-2-2]

If you thought THAT was weird...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hollowearth/