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Post by general313 on Sept 5, 2019 15:08:18 GMT
I think it's easy these days to dismiss the value of religious ceremony in the modern practice of worshiping God, given how ubiquitous Christianity is now, but in the past that ceremony was vital. I believe the Vikings would still be heathens (i.e. Odin worshipers) today if the early Christians didn't have some impressive ceremony to help convert them. I suspect most Vikings were far less deluded than many modern people think. I suspect the Viking pantheon was more like modern day movie heroes. There was likely little pretension to detailed facts and more a matter of lessons and morals in the stories. Of course a few people back then were probably like the people today who entirely miss the value of it all because of their pedestrian thinking. I would even guess the people today are even worse idiots. Opinions may vary as to whether the Vikings were more or less deluded before and after their conversion. In any case if there was a bet about who was the more skillful real estate agent, Donald Trump or Erik the Red, I probably would place my bet against the modern guy.
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