Asatru Bibliography

  Thesis 6 The German religion is a full religion. It has nothing to do with freethinking, godless propaganda and religious decomposition.  We orthodox Asatru stand on the solid ground of a positive religion. What is religious decomposition?      Religious decomposition was part of the mechanical-materialist spirit of the 2nd half of the 19th century, in which an anti-religious direction spread. Asatru today rejects Christianity as a foreign religion, but only in order to replace it with genuine Germanic piety and a knowledge of the divine that is appropriate to our race. It is therefore anything but a substitution religion. Christianity and religion are not one thing, as many still believe today. On the contrary: Christianity and religion now contradict each other. And many Christians are religious not because of their Christianity, but in spite of it. For Christianity contains numerous worldview remnants of past ages that stand in the way of the development...

  Thesis 5 Asatru is not a revelation religion in the Christian sense. It is rather based on a natural "revelation" of divine powers in the world and in the human spirit .  What is revelation? The Christian concept of revelation is characterized by the uniqueness and absoluteness of the revelation through Christ and the "Word of God" in the Bible. We Asatru are repelled by the idea that revelation is a one-sided achievement from the beyond and takes place in a supernatural way, as well as by the view that only the Jewish people as the "chosen people of God on earth" were considered worthy of such a revelation. In contrast to this, we Asatru have the observational knowledge of a natural and continuous revelation of the divine in the world of forms of nature and in the high human spirit. Not all natural processes are recognizable to us, but supernatural processes do not exist, and to believe in such contradicts genuine and reverent religiosity and morality...