Comments on: Racism, Odinism, and Custody Battles

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By: The Wild Hunt » A Few Quick Items

The Wild Hunt » A Few Quick Items — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:30:17 +0000

[...] The stepfather is filing a constitutional challenge, while the mother is hoping to tell “her side of the story” and says that the social workers are lying about her and her daughter. You can read my original coverage of this issue, here. [...]

By: paul(ghost)

paul(ghost) — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:21:15 +0000

if the writing on the childs arm said black power,would there be such a fuss???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:58:00 +0000

For those of you who agree that the Government has the right to take away a parents children for this….think about this: Can the government take your children away if you smoke, drink, curse, vote republican or democrat,….or how about the reverse situation: Hispanic parents who teach their children about the theory of Atzlan and La Raza and the white race has oppressed their race…..or the African American family that plays “gangster rap” in the house (music about crime, drugs, and violence).

Morals, values, social beliefs are the right of the parents to instill in their children.

I raise my children to be proud of their European Heritage and as followers of Odinism……if the government (the thought police) come to my door…..Revolution

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0000

As a Norse pagan and an Odinist ( no not a neo-Nazi dip shit). I find it sad that the marking of the swastika being connected to neo-Nazi BS sad, I wish it could be put back to its real meaning of peace and life, but as it is that shan’t happen for a long time, this just shows that some unthinking people in this world just do not learn from our collective past. I feel for the mother as a mother should never be taken from her children but she called it upon her self by being with that twit. Also just by being an Odinist doesn’t make one a Nazi that is a hateful misnomer. I hold no thoughts of blood purity. I feel that as a Norse pagan such miss understandings of my religion as painful and sad. I hope that everyone out there realizes that as a pagan we in general have no thoughts of one race being better than another but all are the same and equal. I reaaly hope that people out there would try to understand a religion before marking it with a black brush. Well thanks for listening Gods Bless all.

By: genexs

genexs — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:11:00 +0000

I think Jason hit’s the right tone. Taking the story just on its face, the woman seems to demonstrate a cavalier attitude towards her children. I agree with most of the posters, like rinxx who thinks there’s more to the story (mostly bad stuff) and lea petra, who thinks the stars of this story give Asatru a bad name. The tip-off for me comes early on, when the woman says she is ‘tolerant’ of others. Heh! How generous of her!

By: erik

erik — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:29:00 +0000

Mike said...

Racism is stupid, despicable and dishonorable. There's no excuse for it.

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Funny... that's exactly how I see religion.

By: Lea Petra

Lea Petra — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:42:00 +0000

As an Asatru, when I hear cases like this my stomach turns. Not only for the children, who we can only hope can rise above their parents monoscopic beliefs. But also for the bigots that claim they are following the same beliefs I do.
I have to be so careful explaining my beliefs to others, because of cases like this. Too many times I have gotten lumped in with the white supremacists. Strangely, when I was Christian, if a hate group claimed to be Christian, no one would lump you with them.
As for reclaiming the swastika, too much damage was done with it. Too much hatred. I don’t think it will ever be a symbol that we can reclaim.

By: Robin Edgar

Robin Edgar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:31:00 +0000

“Removing them from his presence and placing them with relatives seems prudent. What do you think?”

I think it might be a good idea to screen the relatives for racist ideology. . .

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:20:00 +0000

Racism is stupid, despicable and dishonorable. There’s no excuse for it. What I find worse is state mandated morality. The last thing you want is a government mandating what is moral. This act of removing children from a home, not because of a safety issue, but for a moral issue nullifies all supposed freedoms of the people under the government in question. Let us not forget that Germany did not start out as fascist state under Nazism. It started out as a republic, moved into fascism and then state sponsored racism. Under Nazi Germany it was perfectly moral to have racist views. Both Canada and the United States are currently on the path to fascism, it’s just the US is moving faster towards it. How soon will it be until children have to go to state sponsored indoctrination classes for summer vacation?