Asatru Folk Assembly - We Don't Take This Seriously？ (from VNS Episode 4)

00:00:00.000 Things that I have seen that are misconceptions is there's a lot of folks that haven't looked

00:00:10.720 into it seriously. And this may be a huge thing to us because we live this as part of our life,

00:00:16.580 but us for a very small percentage of population, there's a lot of people that aren't familiar with

00:00:22.560 who we are, what we do. So I think a lot of people think that we don't take this seriously,

00:00:28.400 or they find it silly. And I think that's the biggest misconception I'd like to clear up

00:00:34.780 is just how very devout and serious we are in our practice of Alcitru. And I believe that the AFA

00:00:45.500 is Alcitru and Alcitru exists through the AFA. Whatever these other folks do outside of that,

00:00:52.780 I don't believe is is authentically also true. And I don't put much stock in. There's a lot of

00:00:59.320 people on the outside that I don't think approach this with piety. But in the AFA, we take this very

00:01:06.500 seriously. We absolutely believe in our gods. We absolutely believe in our faith. And yeah,

00:01:14.780 it's real to us. And I don't think I think that's one of the misconceptions that I see. And I see

00:01:21.640 that a lot in in alt-right circles and you know people that ideologically may have similar

00:01:26.420 worldviews sometimes because they may not have that sincere faith in their life or because they

00:01:34.860 may not have experienced or made friendships with afa members they may not get how important it is

00:01:41.060 but one thing i'm very gratified in that that way for is when we've had members of the community

00:01:48.000 show up at our Hoffs. And, you know, whenever we have folks that, you know, family members of

00:01:55.880 members, there was a wedding at Thorshoff recently where an outside photographer was there.

00:02:03.080 They're getting to see how very spiritual and very serious our religion is, has been a really

00:02:10.660 nice thing because they're able to share that with, with people that, you know, may not know

00:02:15.420 what to think. And one thing that they go away with is, you know, how truly serious and truly

00:02:21.160 pious and devoted we are. And that's really important.

00:02:45.420 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - September 23, 2023