Asatru Folk Assembly - Faith is Not a Science Project #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

00:00:00.000 Our faith is not a science project.

00:00:18.460 It is building a relationship with living entities that exist.

00:00:24.000 so the damage of let's just make it easy and pretend they're just all one thing

00:00:30.780 that's good enough isn't it well no that leaves people out that leaves spiritual personages

00:00:39.440 that are worthy and deserving of our worship out from receiving it because it's more convenient

00:00:46.940 for us to treat it like a science project and assume two things are the same when we don't have

00:00:55.020 reason to. It's impious. As people who want to express our piety and are moved and motivated by

00:01:07.680 piety, the last thing we would want to do is be disrespectful to our gods. So we would err on the

00:01:16.180 of caution, because if you, you know, if you honor a God by two different names, that God is still

00:01:26.340 receiving your praise and your honor. But if you assume they're the same one, and you only honor

00:01:32.240 one, not the other, then one of those gods who is worthy of worship does not get worshiped.

00:01:38.380 And that's an extreme disrespect, and it's unacceptable. So as a church that believes in

00:01:45.400 our gods, we want to err on the side of being the most pious and the most respectful as opposed to

00:01:52.580 run the risk of causing offense by guessing poorly on things like that. Our ultimate goal isn't to

00:02:03.880 make the lore more understandable and easier for us to digest. Our goal is to worship our gods as

00:02:13.440 best as we can in the most pious and authentic way we can. And those goals are very often at odds.

Asatru Folk Assembly - August 27, 2025