When did people stop believing in the old gods like Greek and Norse? Did the Vikings just wake up one morning and think ”this is bullshit”?
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As someone who has come back to the old religions, you’d be absolutely shocked how many people STILL believe in those old gods. You’ve already gotten answers sure, but there’s no one answer here. Christianity, monotheism as a whole, is more profitable and more political.
You can’t tell a Northern Heathen how to worship Odin, he’ll question *your* methods. How to worship God/Yahweh/Allah is already detailed in some books. That’s easier to corral people with than any spoken doctrine.
However Iceland has had the Ásatrúarfélagið (Ásatrú Fellowship) since 1972, and as far as this little American knows, the Ásatrú Heathen faith is an indoctrinated religion there which is growing quite rapidly. They’re one of very few places that has official temples dedicated to the old Norse gods.
Naturalists, pagan polytheists, wiccans, they’re all straying from organized religion in lieu of a more ambiguous practice. I personally don’t like being told how to view the world, I prefer to let the world tell me. I know a lot of modern individuals who agree. I’d argue the worship of old gods never truly went away, it just got oppressed into silence by the Church.
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