Two stories, both of which I have told before:
1. Last fall, I had a kind of spiritual upset after seeing Amon Amarth and Ensiferum in concert at Jaxx in Northern Virginia. I realized that the Christianity I had been flirting with didn’t really punch all of the spiritual buttons that I felt needed to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Asatru’
The Problem With Eclecticism
Posted in Religion, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Asatru, Celtic Mythology, Culture, Deity, Dichotomy, Druidism, Druidry, Duality, Eclecticism, Genealogy, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Heart, Hellenismos, Heritage, Islam, Mind, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, Norse Mythology, Orthodoxy, Paganism, Polytheism, Reconstructionist Polytheism, Religion, Self-Denial, Soul, Spirituality, Submission, Tension, Theology, Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In short, the problem with eclecticism is that it seems just too dang unprincipled to be viable.
I have written before about how I get to feel claustrophobic with boxed religion. Although I was specifically talking about religions that present the whole package–theology, practice, etcetera–in one neatly-defined package with firm orthodoxy-borders all the way around it [...]
Christianity Just Doesn’t Work For Me
Posted in Religion, tagged Asatru, Bible, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Civilization, Culture, Doctrine, Druidry, Ecclesiology, Hinduism, Liturgy, Logos, Mormonism, Mysticism, New Age, Philosophy, Religion, Salvation, Satanism, Soteriology, Spirituality, Universe, Zen on March 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My initial reason for leaving Mormonism was because it conflicted with Christianity (at least the way I understood Christianity). So somewhat naturally, my assumption on the way out of Mormonism was that really finding God was just a matter of figuring out which Christian denomination I belonged in. The questions I was asking and trying [...]
Narrowing Down The Issues
Posted in Religion, tagged AODA, Architecture, Asatru, Atonement, Belief, Bhagavad Gita, Brahman, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Clergy, Cults, Culture, Druidry, Episcopalianism, Europe, God, Hinduism, Ideas, Incarnation, India, Indo-European, Jesus Christ, Liturgy, Morality, Mormonism, Music, Mythology, Nature, Priesthood, Religion, Resurrection, Seminary, Sin, Society, Soka Gakkai, Spirituality, Theology, Tradition, Truth, Upanishads, Values, Vedanta on December 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
On the one hand, I’m sure it looks like I’m going ’round and ’round in circles with God and religion, retreading the same ground and getting nowhere. Sometimes I wonder if that is in fact what is going on, and if I can ever be satisfied and happy. Most of the time, though, [...]
Christianity And Me: The Saga Continues
Posted in Religion, tagged Asatru, Belief, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Druidry, Episcopal Church, Faith, God, Intellect, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kingship, Mormonism, Paganism, Religion, Resurrection, Spirituality on October 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I would like Christianity to be true. I’m just not really sure if I believe it. I decided last year, after reading C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, that I believe in God. The exact nature and extent of that belief is properly the subject of another post, but it is sufficient [...]
Why Not Asatru
Posted in Ethics, God, Heathenry, Mormonism, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Odin, Paganism, Panentheism, Pantheism, Polytheism, Reconstructionism, Religion, Virtue, tagged Asatru, Belief, Ethics, God, Heathenry, Mormonism, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Odin, Paganism, Panentheism, Pantheism, Polytheism, Racism, Reconstructionism, Religion, Steven McNallen, Virtue on February 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been moderately interested in Asatru for years, and as a Mormon I even often said and thought that if I wasn’t Mormon, I’d be an Asatruar. But I don’t think it’s the direction I’m going to go, for a couple of reasons.
1. I don’t actually believe in the Norse Gods. I don’t believe in [...]
Reconstructionism
Posted in Deity, Druidry, Gods, Life, Mormonism, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Reconstructionism, Revival Druidry, Spirituality, Theology, Wicca, tagged Absolute Truth, Asatru, Belief, Deity, Druidry, Gods, Life, Mormonism, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Reconstructionism, Revival Druidry, Spirituality, Theology, Wicca on January 4, 2008 | 15 Comments »
In thinking about faith systems like Druidry, Asatru, and (Neo)paganism in general, the issue of Reconstructionism comes up. It seems to me that there is a kind of dogmatic rift among Neopagans between the Reconstructionists and the whatever-you-call-the-others. In Druidry the term is usually Revivalists, but that has a specific meaning to Druidry that doesn’t [...]
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