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Old 06-08-2010, 02:23 PM
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Default Do people of Asatru believe in miracles?

What is their relationship between faith and reason?
What is the relationship between morality and religion?
Is their worship important?
What is their basic belief system?
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Old 06-11-2010, 02:23 PM
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no and they wont get them...
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Old 06-13-2010, 02:23 PM
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No, my family does not believe in miracles. They believe in fate.

Worship is not important, but faith is.

The rest are too long to answer, look it up.
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Old 06-18-2010, 02:23 PM
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Uh, how to address this...
There isn't really such thing as "miracles" in Heathen world view. Godly interventions and manipulation of universal energies (magic) were parts of daily life and considered perfectly normal, not miraculous.
To understand this argument, you must first understand the mentality of the ancestors where we got our polytheist Heathen belief from: there was no such thing as the division between "faith" and "reason". Everything that happened in real life was in some way interconnected with the divine, every action has numerous consequences in both physical and spiritual world, often for generations ahead. The concept of Wyrd is a very complex one, even gods themselves are subject to it.
Read about Wyrd if you want to understand it.

Morality and religion - again, in the old times, they were one. If you were immoral or if you committed blasphemy, which was often one and the same, you were cast out of society and became and outlaw.

Worship - nowadays you have modern reconstructions of ancient Heathen faiths - Asatru is one of them, remade in the 70's - they borrow a lot of ritual work from other Noe-pagan religions like Wicca, creating complicated rituals, but they avoid any and all use of magic.
Originally, it was the other way round, I think: our ancestors would probably perform simpler rituals, more on the level of giving a gift/offering to the gods or their own ancestors, and the magic was a part of their daily life, in the exact same way as we view physics or electricity today: it's there, it's a fact. We live with it every step of the way.

What is their basic belief system?
Too long to answer. Google it.


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Edit: Vikings & Cupcakes:
Your family might have kept some Heathen beliefs, rituals and traditions (despite the fact that Scandinavia was thoroughly Christianized for centuries), but they most certainly couldn't have been Asatru, because this religion was created anew in the 1970's by two individuals, S. McNallen in America and S. Beintensson in Iceland.
Asatru adopts many traditions from Norse Heathenry, but also incorporates many foreign elements, ritual work and ideas that were never part of the traditiona Heathen beliefs.
You can't equate the two religions.
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Old 06-21-2010, 02:23 PM
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No. Personally I don't believe in miracles and I don't know of any others who do either.

Reason and Faith are both important. We are called to keep faith with the gods and to keep our head on straight.

I do not Worship. I show respect and do what I can to live honorably.

It seems to change depending on which one you talk to. I'm still learning things myself. Though I do agree with Ymmo on the point that Asatru is actually new and does incorporate rituals which really doesn't appeal to me on that level. I have participated in Blot and enjoyed it, but I have only been to 2. Though I enjoyed it, I enjoyed talking with others more and learning from them. I do like how the Nine Noble Virtues are laid out, even though they were not an actual creed of any of the Northern Europeans. Virtues which have been shown to be very important to our ancestors.

You could look up Asatru, Norse Heathenry, Anglo-Saxon Heathenry (Germanic), Vanatru. I suggest avoiding anything that ties in Wicca or what some call Wiccatru as that's not a real good example of the basic beliefs.
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Old 06-26-2010, 02:23 PM
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No

it's a world accepting folkways, focused on the here and now. It's about actions, deeds luck and honor. It's not faith. Faith implies things that have not happened. Itsnot based on future promises, it's the here and now.

Morality as laid our in the worldview is essential in Encarta.dThh
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there is nothing basic about the "religion with homework".
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