The Racist Dark Side of Norse Paganism

Mostly lifestyle choices, since one of the largest and oldest Norse Pagan communities is among white criminal gangs in the US prison system. But the paganism used as an excuse for racism goes back to at least Nazi Germany. I don't think it was that big with the German people, but the hardcore Nazis certainly embraced Norse paganism and the motifs continue with the Right Wingers to this day.  

Every time I post this photo, the righties on the board laugh and tell me how crazy I am. 

This is the tradition Odal rune so named for Odin. It stands from him and for "homeland," "heritage," or "father."



This is the emblem used by the Nazi SS's racial purification division.



This is the stage for one of the 2020 American Conservatives Union aka CPAC.





Of course, this is all a nasty bastardization of genuine Norse Pagan Reconstructionist religion.

What we know of the old religion is what historians using extant epigraphic record, archeology, and religious and cultural studies can dig up. There is no solid record of what Norse/Germanic paganism actually was since they did not have a written languages per se. They only had a simply rune system that varied from region to region and used more for magical purposes than record keeping. What we do have are the various Norse Christian scholars who took it upon themselves to collect and write down the rich body of myths as they were still being told around 1100-1200, but they were written in Latin and probably adulterated a bit. Of course, there is the fun of discovering just how much paganism has survived down through the many generations, sojourns, and diaspora of North Traditions people across the globe. 

I've been exploring it for some time as part of my own spiritual journey, however I also want to take it back from freaking pseudo-pagan racists. The majority of pagans in the US repudiate the racism and are universalists. 

 Yeah, I've also read that there were quite a few leaders in Nazism that wanted to revive the ancient German religion (which shared the same deities as the Norse, Vikings, etc). However, most Germans would have remained Christian, so they tried to recreate Christianity into their own image of what a Nazi christian church should be.

 Hitler knew that the German people were specifically Christian. They were his target voting group. The Lord Jesus Was Jewish, plain & simple. There is no getting away from that small, simple fact.

I believe it is God who is referred to as Almighty, sir, not Satan. Fear He whom you speak of, not his servant Satan. 

 Hitler was actually ANTI-CHRISTIAN. He only "recreated" the Lord Jesus into the Aryan/German image in a bid to keep Christian voters in Germany. Nothing more, & nothing less.

The evidence does not support that in my view.

Hitler Hated Judaism, But, He Loathed Christianity Too

And a Pagan. You can be both. Pagans are not Satanists.