When I was paying attention to Asatru as a thing, you'd get a diverse range of folks.
Some subset of them were raised Baptist, or nearly, and had converted, generally through some kind of direct personal vision. They hadn't stopped being Baptists in their expectations of social norms around religion, but they'd read enough to have a (generally highly Wagnerian) view of ODHIN, CHIEF OF THE GODS and they were very big on insisting on things like the literal material existence of deity, the regular occurrence of miracles, and the necessity of a direct personal relationship with deity.
The degree to which this wasn't reconstruction, as such, almost instantly produced extreme heat and little light.
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Some subset of them were raised Baptist, or nearly, and had converted, generally through some kind of direct personal vision. They hadn't stopped being Baptists in their expectations of social norms around religion, but they'd read enough to have a (generally highly Wagnerian) view of ODHIN, CHIEF OF THE GODS and they were very big on insisting on things like the literal material existence of deity, the regular occurrence of miracles, and the necessity of a direct personal relationship with deity.
The degree to which this wasn't reconstruction, as such, almost instantly produced extreme heat and little light.
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