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Originally Posted by ape descendant
Some Asatru peeps are racist but not all. The whole aryan thing isn't a part of Astatru that shit's Indian and any fucker worth their salt (obviously not the fucks doing fact checking for the Nazis) knows that the Aryans weren't germanic people but people from around India. Last time I checked Asatru and Odinism were damned near interchangeableish.. depending on which one of the Asir one jerked off to.
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Not really interchangable, although let's face it a lot of neopagans are fairly eclectic and don't care. Odinism was racist in origin and continuing today, and also puts much more emphasis on Odin, hence the name. Folkish Asatru is very specifically racist (although they say they are "racialized" and not racist, but black people are not welcome.) And Odinists will also claim this, but its origin and legacy is still very racist.
Like I said, Icelandic Asatru is Asatru which concentrates on the religion rather than the racial heritage stuff, and of course there's general Germanic neopaganism which is very eclectic and can't be generalized about.
Anyway, not all Nazis were Christian, and Christianity is not in and of its self white supremist, and Christians at the time were quick to point out (and quick to be killed or deported) that Jesus was Jewish. Odinism is explicitly racist in its origin and continuing today with its no blacks policy.