Odin? and Fylfot motif in the porch of the church at Great Canfield in Essex, England
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Olivia Rudgard, Religious Affairs Correspondent for The Telegraph, reports that –
A group of pagans has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury demanding two churches to make amends for those it says were stolen 1,300 years ago.
The Odinist Fellowship, which represents 1,000 members of the pagan religion, wrote to the Church of England last month asking for two churches to be returned to make up for actions which took place during the Christianisation of England.
The letter, addressed directly to Archbishop Welby, said: “With a view to re-establishing better relations between the Odinist Fellowship and the Christian churches in England, and persuaded that a restitution of past wrongs is the best way to lay the foundations of improved relations, we wish you to be aware that the great majority of Odinists believe that honour requires the English church to issue a public apology for its former crimes against the Odinists.”
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28/08/2017 at 12:21 pm
hoodedman1
Oh dear. My own leaning is towards paganism, but ‘what actions’ ‘what crimes’ by Christians? Most of the sites subsumed by churches were far earlier than ‘Odinism’ which itself is a late import into the British isles; in fact, it arrived AFTER Christianity, which first appeared in the later Roman era (it declined post the Roman pullout but never completely vanished.)It’s own advent in these isles was hardly in peaceful circumstances… Also, the conversion of people in Britain was not, unlike some parts of the continent, brought with the sword. Please, people, stop feeling offended and entitled about everything and read a few history books!
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