To me a god is an especially notable or able spiritual being.
I especially consider them a god if they have an important or broad sphere of physical influence.
Oh, one cannot forget that they can be considered mentally conscious to some degree.
From a Pantheistic viewpoint, one can say that...
According to the other thread in the Ásatrú section, the focus difference may be that in Heathenry there is less fixation on Nordic Racial and Germanic heritage than Heathenry.
Unless those people in the thread are basically saying that the non-Germanic do not have right to honor the Aesir and...
And a Celtic person cannot put forth and perpetuate the Norse Heritage?
Even in Tribalism there have been tribes who partook in the traditions of other tribes.
Anglo-Celtic peoples would not exist without intense inter-tribal relations.
The word "heritage" is being thrown around an awful lot...
Wait, this is the opposite of communism. Having less freedoms in the opposite of communism.
Why would you say that?
Authoritarian Leftism is NOT the same as Communism.
Stalin was an Authoritarian Leftist, that is NOT Communism.
Communism is the extreme of Libertarian Leftism.
It is an...
People tend to omit things from the Bible they don't like.
There are a lot of conflicting verses. So they just go with the ones they believe in.
OP, you remind me of an older me. Who before I professed the Paganism I always wanted to be and gave into the religion of my parents, used to be some...
I have a great interest in many kinds of magic.
Chaos Magic is one of them.
I believe that the mind alone is not only a tool for magic, but a strong one.
I strongly believe that there can be scientific explanations in the future for everything to do with magic.
I believe that all magicians...
The Greco-Roman tales tell that both groups respected the gods of other groups.
And Roman lore borrowed heavily from Greek lore.
When the persecuted Portuguese Christians lived in Japan, they practiced Shinto.
An Animist, Polytheist religion parallel to Germanic Heathenism.
Having a Heritage...
Given the significant of Tara Hill to Celtic Paganism and the threat upon it, I'm quite surprised to not find a topic for it here.
Here is an important website on the matter in case you don't know.
saveTara.com. Save Tara Campaign.
Ah yes, I am quite worried about the further Eastern Uralic peoples who live in Russia and their culture.
The Yukaghir, the Samoyedic, and the Urgic.
I have a lot of sympathies towards these groups.
I'd certainly like to some way support the preservation of some of these cultures.
Not quite no.
I claim life has no objective meaning.
No, though carrying around things for Sigil creating is something I should start.
Unfortunately I am neither of those.
I certainly aspire to become the latter, though.
I would more say something like "I am open to certain Esoteric...
I can say that non-Germanic people can easily be Ásatrú.
I think that extreme racialism in the matter is more in line with Odalism thinking than Ásatrú.
People can honor ancestors other than their own, as well as honoring their own ancestors.
There's a such thing as "honoring the spirits of the...
One of the common tactics that Christian Americans used to use against Atheists, especially after World War Two, was the strawman argument that Atheists support Social Darwinism. That believing in evolution and not believing in God is the same as believing in Social Darwinism.
It's quite...