/lit/ - Literature

>>19241728
"Universalist Asatru" is then a construct by the SPLC to attempt to counter this. It instead tries to construct some kind of bizarre pseudo-Asatru that seeks to convert the whole world to the worship of Odin. This doesn't make any sense because Asatru is literally just ancestor worship. All Indo-European religion is; remember, all humans are in varying degrees descended from the Gods, so worshiping Odin IS actually ancestor worship. This is part of why the Anglo-Saxons and Norse held onto (altered) forms of belief in the Aesir and Vanir well into the 1700s: the Gods are literally the ancestors of mankind, whether that's because Wotan was an ancient chieftain or some kind of entity is really irrelevant.

Which of course is exactly what LARPers want as they want some kind of strawman that easily fits into the aformentioned framework. By rejecting the inherent ethnocentrism of Asatru ("Folkishness") you just bring it into an arena where it's one of multiple doctrines that can do battle in gay e-debates, instead of it being a simple immanent factor in your life as being someone of Germanic descent. This means that it becomes one of many propositions that you can hold onto, because you're an atomized consoooomer and you get to pick and choose which identities you want to consooooom. I'm gay, I'm trans, I'm Armenian Orthodox, I'm peepee with poopoo characteristics. These consumptive identities then do battle.

Saying "yeah nah I'm an X, I don't have a choice in that" completely rejects that, and that's why the LARPers in this thread get so butthurt about it, and that's why they focus on Varg so much, as he is at is core a product to be consumed. They're literally advertising his music and tabletop games: "If you don't like Jews, you need to buy Burzum records and MYFAROG". Varg NEEDS to be the Odinist Pope (not that such a thing even makes sense as Odin is the leader of Odinism) in order to center the gay-strawman of "Universalist Asatru" around SOMETHING other than blood in the veins of men.