Re: Asatru and Europeans...
Religion is closely linked to ethnicity to the point of being an element that helps identify an ethnic group.
An ethnic group is roughly what makes up a nation. The very foundations of the nations are in the ethnic genesis of its peoples.
I have never heard of such thing as a "white ethnic group" or a "white nation". Though some people do [wrongly] speak of a "white nation" or a "human nation". Relativising on the meaning of nation.
So you are confused as to the meaning of ethnicity. Asatru too is a religion closely linked to a number of ethnicities, or nations. And alien to other ethnicities, or nations.
However, if you wish to follow Asatru I suppose that you are as free and right (or wrong) to do so as if you wanted to follow Islam, or Buddhism as Gere suggested.
Not that I do not think that each of those mentioned choices do not have implications. One such implication would be that you would be rejecting (and alienating yourself of) your ethnic group. Which in turn it has other implications.. like that you become an ethnic pariah.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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