A New Age sect are building a ‘Norse Temple’ in Iceland according to Huffington Post.
Asatruarfelagid, a neopagan organization, plans to start construction next month on the country’s first Norse temple since Christianity arrived in the island nation roughly 1,000 years ago.
The Reykjavik City Council has donated land for the temple, but the group has to raise nearly $1 million for the building itself, which will be set into a hillside and topped with a dome to let in sunlight, the BBC reported.
Once completed, the temple will accommodate 250 worshippers. It will host weddings, funerals, naming rituals, initiation ceremonies and more for the group’s 2,488 members, which Reuters says is triple the number from just a decade ago.
The Asatruarfelagid, which began in 1972, says on its website that its values are “based on tolerance, honesty, honor and respect for the ancient cultural heritage and nature,” and follows the principal that “each person is responsible for themselves and their actions,” according to a Google translation..
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Well. fair enough. It’s a bit like Mormons building a Mormon temple in Utah.
The time to worry is when we get pairs of besuited Norse missionaries patrolling our streets.
Rox
You overlook the fact that this heralds the creep towards the One World Religion which will preach loving one another and tolerance without acknowledging / praising or thanking the one true LIVING GOD and creator JESUS CHRIST
Yes, I’m afraid it didn’t occur to me. But what would Other Stephen do, stop Mormons and Norsers and Hindus and Muslims and Jews building places of worship anywhere, unless they were prepared not only to be reasonable human beings, but to acknowledge praise or thank the one true LIVING GOD and creator JESUS CHRIST ? Of course, Muslims do this already, but praising Jesus Christ as a prophet, not actually the creator.
Is it normal practice to describe Jesus Christ as the creator ? I wouldn’t have thought so. Most religions will say that God was the creator (in whatever language they use), in fact Christians use exactly the same account of this as Judaism.
“Is it normal practice to describe Jesus Christ as the creator ? I wouldn’t have thought so.”
It may not be so in other religions but most Christian believers know Jesus Christ as the creator.
Colossians 1:16 ‘For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.’
Yes it’s normal to describe Jesus as creator because He is God who came in the flesh.