Asatru Folk Assembly - July 30, 2025


Detractors #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Allsherjargoði Matt Flavel appears on Know More News with Adam Green 07⧸24⧸2025 7⧸30⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 160 - A Fifth of Brandy： Relationships with the Ásynjur

Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

120.8

Word count

200

Sentence count

15

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the things we encounter with critics and haters, and how to deal with them. I also talk a little bit about what it means to be a Christian in the modern world, and why it's important to have critics.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 born in Iceland. But I do want to address that as well. One thing that we encounter and
00:00:10.160 if you don't have haters and you're not doing something right, you're either so insignificant
00:00:14.320 that nobody knows so nobody cares or you don't, you're inauthentic so you try to please everybody
00:00:24.000 and as a result don't stand for anything. We're always going to have detractors. If anything,
00:00:30.160 detractors are often a testament to success and that you're on the right track. But it's funny
00:00:36.880 because when those things come up, they do warrant being addressed because for everybody that's, 0.96
00:00:42.160 you know, a jerk about it, there's also people that are just curious. We get Europeans 0.99
00:00:51.520 that don't understand our approach to house.
00:00:59.580 They criticize it as being too American.
00:01:03.020 They criticize it as being too churchy
00:01:05.420 and to reflect too much Protestant American churchiness.
00:01:10.560 And they criticize it because we don't live in Europe.
00:01:17.360 Therefore, how can we possibly know what we're doing?
00:01:19.640 And I don't usually find that from educated sources. I find that from randos that don't
00:01:29.720 know the lore, that don't know any of House of Truth things. Wait, that's Scandinavian stuff.
00:01:38.380 You guys are in America.