Do Asatruar consider their gods to be the only true ones?
A. No. Asatruar, as a rule, don’t seek to convert the rest of the world–largely because they don’t see it as the one right religion for everybody. If a non-Asatru pagan wants to worship Diana or Cernunnos, that is perfectly acceptable; if a Christian wants to remain Christian, that too is acceptable. The Norsemen generally didn’t belittle other people’s gods, or claim that those gods didn’t exist. Even in the late Viking Age, the attitude towards foreign religions was “You stick to your gods and I’ll stick to mine”; that attitude has carried on into the modern Asatru revival. Some extremists may be anti-Christian–either because they were raised as strict churchgoers, or because they feel bitter about the forced conversions to Christianity during the Viking Age. That attitude is not usual, however, and Asatruar neither expect nor encourage each other to oppose any particular religion. Q. But isn’t Asatru anti-Semitic? After all, Hitler claimed to believe in “Nordic” gods, and he used
