ASATRU AND POLITICAL FREEDOM From my upcoming book - When our ancestral religion held sway across Europe, fledgling republics protected the rights of their citizens. After the Church destroyed the people’s religion and dismantled the ancient system of checks and balances, royal power grew and human freedom receded. Medieval Christian Europe was a locked-down totalitarian system as absolute as the Soviet Union. The rights we now associate with Western democracies were painfully regained through the centuries, first with the Magna Charta, then with the American Declaration of Independence and its sister document, the United States Constitution. In a sentence, freedom is a birthright from our polytheistic ancestors in Europe, not something we imported from monotheists in the Middle East. Hail the Gods! Hail the Asatru Folk Assembly! Steve McNallen
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:20:40 +0000