New Posts For Thread: Asatruar views on Social Issueshttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_IssuesI'm new to this path as well and I feel as though I've found my place in the wide community. I was Wiccan for seventeen years but I started to feel disconnected to the path. I looked around for something else until I found Heathenism. I like that Heahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=528003723#528003723I'm new to this path as well and I feel as though I've found my place in the wide community. I was Wiccan for seventeen years but I started to feel disconnected to the path. I looked around for something else until I found Heathenism. I like that HeaSun, 13 Jan 2013 03:03:46 -0600It's good to see some discussion on this forum. Just thought I'd look in and wish everyone a Happy New Year.Rangerken, Beliefnet Community Moderatorhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=514362677#514362677It's good to see some discussion on this forum. Just thought I'd look in and wish everyone a Happy New Year.Rangerken, Beliefnet Community ModeratorThu, 29 Dec 2011 21:09:50 -0600Thats a typical Asatru response. With the acceptance of personal responsibility for your own choices, the acceptance of the right of others to excercize those same choices becomes a given. With the acceptance that a government does have responsibilhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=513959637#513959637Thats a typical Asatru response. With the acceptance of personal responsibility for your own choices, the acceptance of the right of others to excercize those same choices becomes a given. With the acceptance that a government does have responsibilSun, 18 Dec 2011 10:38:29 -0600I tend towards moderate fiscal and social Libertarianism, I'm pro-gun rights, pro-choice (even though I'd not have an abortion myself if I could help it, I believe kids are better off coming into a world where their parents actually want them), pro-ghttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=513798745#513798745I tend towards moderate fiscal and social Libertarianism, I'm pro-gun rights, pro-choice (even though I'd not have an abortion myself if I could help it, I believe kids are better off coming into a world where their parents actually want them), pro-gWed, 14 Dec 2011 06:18:23 -0600That's pretty much how I feel about it. My wife and I try to honor her West African ancestral deities as well as my Northern European ones. I find an incredible similarity in the polytheist West African Traditions and the Northern European Traditiohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=480090081#480090081That's pretty much how I feel about it. My wife and I try to honor her West African ancestral deities as well as my Northern European ones. I find an incredible similarity in the polytheist West African Traditions and the Northern European TraditioSat, 01 Jan 2011 16:25:51 -0600I care about exactly one social issue: Freedom.Don't violate my freedoms and I'll leave you alone in return. Homosexuality does not dishonor my tribe, pick my pocket or break my leg. In short, it's none of my business. I'm folkish, but moderate. Lethttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=479976025#479976025I care about exactly one social issue: Freedom.Don't violate my freedoms and I'll leave you alone in return. Homosexuality does not dishonor my tribe, pick my pocket or break my leg. In short, it's none of my business. I'm folkish, but moderate. LetFri, 31 Dec 2010 10:37:50 -0600Your wife shares your connection to the sacred ancestors and the gods. Through your mingling blood in the body of your first child, or in the blood claim of a child of either one of you the other adopts or claims, your bloods will be joined for allhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=479917965#479917965Your wife shares your connection to the sacred ancestors and the gods. Through your mingling blood in the body of your first child, or in the blood claim of a child of either one of you the other adopts or claims, your bloods will be joined for allThu, 30 Dec 2010 18:50:47 -0600I am an anarchist politically, as I feel no government could ever, in any way provide freedom or social justice. I hold no political affiliation and feel that government is mostly an extention of Corporate interests. As far as issues go. I am pro-http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=479538517#479538517I am an anarchist politically, as I feel no government could ever, in any way provide freedom or social justice. I hold no political affiliation and feel that government is mostly an extention of Corporate interests. As far as issues go. I am pro-Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:12:06 -0600Yes we all tend to have differing opinions. I am and Asatruar and a folkish one at that. I believe that our Gods only call to those of us whose ancestors worshipped Them. I view my religion as ethnospecific and if you don't like it you can go to Hel.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=479426509#479426509Yes we all tend to have differing opinions. I am and Asatruar and a folkish one at that. I believe that our Gods only call to those of us whose ancestors worshipped Them. I view my religion as ethnospecific and if you don't like it you can go to Hel.Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:04:22 -0600And one more thing, cousin: the Heathen Formation essays at my Farmstead are posted in order from latest to first. Start by reading the first essay, entitled "Being True to the Gods".Sig und SalUlehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13229689/Asatruar_views_on_Social_Issues?post_id=362547769#362547769And one more thing, cousin: the Heathen Formation essays at my Farmstead are posted in order from latest to first. Start by reading the first essay, entitled "Being True to the Gods".Sig und SalUleSun, 25 Oct 2009 19:46:05 -0500