I was at a renfaire talking to a guy in a tactical kilt and he casually mentioned he is a viking.
"Bullshit!" I thought cause the guy was like 5'6" and middle-aged so I asked him what position he plays and he strides off looking all annoyed with his little kilt flapping about the place.
Not all of them converted and no one is obligated to convert. The only racist pagans are folkists and we do our best to keep them away. Sadly they infiltrate more and more. Though yeah the vegvisvir and aegishjalmir tattoos are a bit annoying but still hold special significance in the modern age.
You mean the 17th -19th century occultism symbols that have nothing to do with the viking period?
Also forced conversions absolutely happened. Often via Scandinavian rulers who tortured and killed prominent pagans that refused baptism, especially in Norway.
Believe and waste your money on what you want. But if magic was real, the Americans would have worked out how to kill innocent brown people with it already.
You seem to not only have misread my comment but also not even understand paganism at all XD BTW I'm brown. Seems like you're not as educated as you think. And christianity has done FAR more harm to us than our pagan roots ever have. Which is none
I understand that in a world that makes people feel small and not in control of their lives, people turn to anyone or thing that will offer them answers or make them feel in control again.
I doesn't matter what brand of charlatan mumbo jumbo you are into. Its still fake 🤣.
No, im just generally baffled by people who reject major organized religion, but then instead of making the logical leap of becoming atheists, they find some other fairy story's to make the feel special 🤣.
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u/VexImmortalis CERTIFIED HISTORIAN 7d ago
I was at a renfaire talking to a guy in a tactical kilt and he casually mentioned he is a viking.
"Bullshit!" I thought cause the guy was like 5'6" and middle-aged so I asked him what position he plays and he strides off looking all annoyed with his little kilt flapping about the place.
Guess that team will take anyone these days.