How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion

Re:How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion by DennisP on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:28AM (#20083417)

I have a hard time picturing white supremacists feeling at home in the group described in the article.

> “It’s about being honest, upright and tolerant,” Hilmarsson said. “Respect for nature is also important. You have to make sure you live in harmony with nature.”

> The association rarely wades into politics, but it has made exceptions, most notably by campaigning for same-sex marriage

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Re:How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion by the_af on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:37AM (#20083514)

Whether it makes sense or not, "Norse" symbology and mythos seem attractive to neo-Nazis, I guess at least partly because of obvious 20th century reasons.

Someone else posted this link which claims it is indeed a real problem: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/as...

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Re:How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion by DennisP on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:44AM (#20083596)

I'm not denying that, I'm just saying that groups differ and clearly some are not right-wing, so anyone interested can be selective about it.

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