Asatru Folk Assembly - December 14, 2025


It's Not Too High of a Price to Pay #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly #shorts


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2 minutes

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158.56

Word count

466

Sentence count

24

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about why it's important to be proud of who you are and what it means to be loyal to your God. I also talk about how important it is to have a good relationship with your family.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I get that a lot of these things are hard, but a lot of them are very real and they build upon
00:00:05.000 one another. It's not an unreasonable expectation for our gods to want someone who worships them
00:00:12.520 to be willing to be proud of being Alcetru in the face of their family wagging fingers at them and
00:00:21.680 criticizing them for breaking with Christianity. That doesn't seem like too high of a price to
00:00:27.520 pay, but you'd be surprised how many people shrink from that. Your boss asking you uncomfortable
00:00:32.940 questions shouldn't be enough to make you give up a sincerely held belief. If we look at other
00:00:40.700 people of faith in the world, and I mentioned this earlier, I think a lot of people don't come
00:00:46.640 to this from a religious background, so they don't know how to be pious, or they don't know
00:00:50.860 what that looks like, because they haven't seen that in their life. It's not something that
00:00:55.980 has ever been real to them in their lived experience, but it's something that they
00:01:01.640 want to be. And that's, that's great. I, everybody starts somewhere. One of the things
00:01:07.760 is looking at how other people of faith, how seriously they take it. And you don't need to
00:01:13.340 look to Christianity or to other things that do, and to their credit, have their own martyrs that
00:01:18.780 are willing to, you know, suffer abuse and death
00:01:25.820 and very bad things to still stay loyal to their God.
00:01:31.760 We have many of those heroes ourselves
00:01:34.060 that were persecuted unto death for their faith in Ausitru.
00:01:38.220 And they could have given up and pretended they weren't Ausitru
00:01:41.300 and, you know, I'm secret Ausitru all by myself,
00:01:44.120 but I'm going to do all the Christian things.
00:01:46.720 And many of them did.
00:01:48.780 Tons of people did, and that's why we are where we are today.
00:01:53.100 But I think all of us that are here wish that our ancestors would have stayed loyal to our gods.
00:01:58.920 We celebrate those that did.
00:02:03.360 Conceptually, no, nobody wants to sign up to be the one to take all these hits.
00:02:10.260 But you should be loyal enough to risk that. 0.94
00:02:13.100 If the other option is denying your gods and turning your back on them, you should be willing to take that risk to say, no, I'm proud of the Aesir.
00:02:26.600 I'm proud of the Austro-Folk Assembly.
00:02:30.600 You know, this is who I am, and consequences be damned.
00:02:35.080 And be surprised how many people do and turn out just fine.
00:02:39.900 And by doing so, build a reputation as people of character and build the hymenia and the strength and the reputation of the Austro-Folk Assembly and of Austro-Trum.
00:02:52.640 So, yeah, there's a lot of people that don't turn and run that turn out just fine.