Baldr - Wikipedia
Unfortunate that the ancient Germanics didn't write their religion down in a Holy Book (and make it extremely ethnocentric like the Jews' faith):
History of writing - Wikipedia
The Norse didn't have this plant:
Papyrus - Wikipedia
But you'd think we could have used something else i.e.:
Birch Bark Manuscript - Wikipedia
Parchment - Wikipedia
Futhark: Mysterious Ancient Runic Alphabet of Northern Europe | Ancient Origins
Instead our only original sources are writings on stones:
Runestone - Wikipedia
This is my favorite stone:
Snoldelev Stone - Wikipedia
Old Norse religion - Wikipedia
Old Norse - Wikipedia
Of course, there's a likely theory that they did have a Holy Book, and it was destroyed (the few runestones that were allowed to remain, were tombstones basically).
The AFA will eventually have to get a choir going and create songs to Baldr, and/or perhaps redesign these songs celebrating a new theory that Odin (the shapeshifter) came down to visit the Jews as Jesus lol
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Currently, our alternative Mr Savior Messiah songs are in a difficult to comprehend Norwegian lol:
Seems somewhat hostile at times too lol:
The Church: Jesus Christ is Lord Baldur | Religious Forums
Balder, Ruler of an Age to come | The Odinic Rite
Quote:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Balder
Balder has also been likened to Jesus Christ, likely due to the number of shared motifs between the two figures (a dying-and-rising god killed, though blameless, who heralds the arrival of a period of eternal peace).
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There's quite a culture established with the status quo:
Quote:
http://vrilology.org/rebirth-in-you.html
As a pagan, I have no problem with saying a prayer to Jesus, because I know that the spiritual essence of the God, Jesus, that is worshiped, is essentially a God of peace, and I can associate Jesus with Balder or any other God of peace.
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We humans seem to need our imaginary friends. Nature is pretty desolate otherwise.