Asatru Folk Assembly - July 14, 2025


Race & Religion #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

156.87

Word count

425

Sentence count

3


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the concept of race and religion and how it relates to our understanding of religion and spirituality. What is religion? How does it relate to race and spirituality? What does it mean to be a universalist and what does that mean to us?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I think a lot of the confusion firstly comes from obviously race and things of that nature.
00:00:08.960 But when we're talking about race and religion, a lot of people do come from the idea that there is some sort of universal and all-pervading divinity that supersedes nations, supersedes cultures, genetics, everything.
00:00:24.080 just this overarching kind of global or universal which is the proper term but universal in the like
00:00:31.600 the literal sense um of faith and a lot of people don't the first hurdle that they have to tackle
00:00:38.960 whether they are uh white or black or red or yellow or whatever color is that they the idea of
00:00:47.360 ethnicity with faith and for some groups it's easier for us to digest this um if you were you
00:00:54.400 know talking to a um perhaps uh you know like someone in west africa or um perhaps maybe like
00:01:01.840 an indigenous um tribesmen or something like that it would make a lot of sense that their folklore
00:01:08.560 and their stories and things uh reflect them they see their the divinity their gods in direct
00:01:14.560 connection to them and um they set boundaries about where that the divinity interacts with them
00:01:22.080 uh as opposed to say others or things of that nature what they they might represent in the in
00:01:27.680 the grand chemistry of everything um so i think that's the biggest problem that a lot of people
00:01:33.760 have to to get past and if they can understand that there is this applies to you know groups
00:01:41.360 of people in and at large and that we as a group promote that all people seek to do this then it
00:01:49.200 starts to i think change the volatility and the hostility of the idea behind it um and so if you
00:01:57.280 don't see that the ability for people to have their ethnic like makeup and their language and
00:02:04.800 their culture as definitive parts of their faith then you know it's like are you a universalist
00:02:11.120 and if you are then that's something you should contend with that that in reality no one has any
00:02:17.360 sense of those building blocks being part of the religious makeup um and and so that should apply
00:02:24.320 across the board and when people get kind of posed with that they suddenly go i don't i don't think
00:02:28.640 that's right and it's like well congratulations you know you're the equivalency of what we use
00:02:35.120 the word is folkish and so that's our language for it and that's our you know the word in our language