00:00:00.000First, all of those things. And I think that sometimes people are confused because they only conceive of this as a religion of the Viking Age, and they picture rough people in a time of warfare and strife.
00:00:15.560And as our founder has often said, Al-Satru is a hard times religion, but it's also a good times religion.
00:00:25.740It's a religion for all the situations our people find ourselves in.
00:00:29.780It is certainly one that embraces the natural struggles that occur throughout life.
00:00:34.880but so much of Asatru is focused on joy
00:00:42.520and having a lightheartedness and a joy
00:00:57.720But Chris kind of threw it to me with inner peace.
00:01:00.240one of the beautiful things about Alcetru is that it is honest
00:01:07.860it doesn't magically with the the stroke of a wand or what have you wipe away
00:01:20.740sin and struggle and make everything perfect
00:01:24.220But it does empower each of us to be the hero in our own lives and in our own story.
00:01:32.520It strengthens us with an honest embracing of the struggles of life.
00:01:37.840And I think that that honesty is a more secure and a more lasting inner peace than lies and delusions that we all know better than.
00:01:51.860It's one of the things, if you pretend that everything is okay, illusion is very easily dispelled by reality.
00:02:06.220But if you recognize the struggle in life, but you are buttressed by the support of your ancestors, by mighty gods that inspire us and look out for us, by desir that protect and look after you from beyond the grave, and by the encouragement to go out and to struggle and embrace life and to achieve.
00:02:30.740it is a more difficult path but it's one that's honest and it's one that won't be dispelled by
00:02:40.520truth it's one that fortifies you no matter what life throws at you because it's real and it's
00:02:47.740visceral and it's life-affirming I think that's a beautiful thing about Ausatrim