"Odinism" Nazis' new favorite religion. I hadn't heard of this. [View all]
I ran across this in a thread about upcoming Nazi marches/parades
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029459843
The New Religion Of Choice For White Supremacists
From 2015
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/the-new-religion-of-choice-for-white-supremacists-8af2a69a3440/amp/
Yet an unsettlingly virulent strain of Odinism has coalesced in the United States over the past few decades, attracting white supremacists who see it as more purely “white” than Christianity.
“Odinism, which is closely related to Asatrú, was much favored in Nazi Germany,” reads a 1998 report on the phenomenon by the Southern Poverty Law Center. “Its Nordic/Teutonic mythology was a bedrock belief for key Third Reich leaders, and it was an integral part of the initiation rites and cosmology of the elite Schutzstaffel (SS), which supervised Adolf Hitler’s network of death camps. Decades later, Odinism also influenced George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party.”
“To followers, [the Norse gods] are the big tough white guys who, when they see a woman they want, grab her by the hair and pull her in the cave,” Potok said. “It’s seen as this ultra-male, super muscular religion, which is antithetical to Christianity and Judaism.”
“It’s a comic book religion in a lot of ways,” he added.
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