Ernst Bergmann Thesis 7
Thesis 7 Asatru is not an enemy of churches. It strives for an Asatru Church on a völkisch-religious basis. What is a church? Church and christianity are just as little identical as religion and christianity. Church as an organizational entity as well as a place of worship and consecration is quite capable of being taken out of the judeo-christian world of ideas. Church in the sense of cult and consecration place was already possessed by all pre-christian peoples, in particular our Germanic ancestors, who partly, as Tacitus reports, worshipped the deity in open and free nature on holy mountains or under holy trees. Only partly however, for example, Winter Julfest, the main celebration of the old-Nordic religion, was celebrated in temples or houses of worship. Also for other, e.g. artistic reasons, there is no reason to reject the closed church building as a place of Asatru consecration action with reference to the above Tacitus passage. We are no longer old Teutons, we are German...