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Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
How on Earth Nazism could (and still) use the Norse religion to their advantage in their attempts at conspiring against the human kind and ”solving the Jewish Problem” is a riddle to me, because the ancient Norse people were all “sons of Heimdall”, and Heimdall, is just another name for Noach in my opinion.
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
How on Earth Nazism could (and still) use the Norse religion to their advantage in their attempts at conspiring against the human kind and ”solving the Jewish Problem” is a riddle to me, because the ancient Norse people were all “sons of Heimdall”, and Heimdall, is just another name for Noach in my opinion.
But not in THEIR opinion. And if you look into it closely, there's no real match between the gods and Biblical figures you mention (Noah doesn't have three wives and nine mothers, as a quick example.)
Originally posted by Byrd
The Neo Nazis feel as though their way of life (the "pure white man"/ "original noble race") is being polluted by everyone else who isn't of their belief system or who have icky ancestors (like mine) who are Native American or African or Jewish and so forth. Their motivation isn't religious, either.
Originally posted by bogomil
Von Däniken couldn't have done it better.
Originally posted by bogomil
Re Neo-christian:
My main objection to your OP is, that you're stretching 'inductive reasoning' far beyond any functional limit. A methodology you share with (the already mentioned) Von Däniken and the sensationalist writer Peter Moon, who in an endless series of books uses a cottage industry 'epistemology', he calls 'synchronicity'.
'Inductive reasoning' implies a use of identical phenomena to arrive at conclusions. With some lenience this can even include very strong similarities. But only 'resemblances' as such are worthless.
Any serious comparative research between OT and northern mythology would start with the common indo-european roots, on a STRICT linguistic and symbology-analysis basis.
As to the nazi/northern mythology connection, there actually exists one. The cosmogony of fire-ice. A kind of washed-out yin/yang model with manichean overtones.
This connection doesn't prove or disprove anything, except that people with sociopathic and violent characters can use anything to justify their egotistic aims.
Ofcourse I wholeheartedly support your anti-racistic attitude, and I also find northern mythology fascinating (being a north european myself, I grew up with it), but your way towards any conclusions on these subjects looks like boiling soup on a nail to me.
Originally posted by bogomil
Re Neo Christian
There are a few details, you and I could spend eternities arguing about, but that kind of nitpicking doesn't appeal to me. It never leads to anything apart from enforcing already entrenced positions.