2007-02-13 07:27:56 · 10 answers · asked by Contemplative Monkey 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey guys, there are still people who worship Thor, I happen to be one of them. There have always been people in Scandinavia who have honored Thor. Thor is not dead. Unlike the Christian God he was never killed and he never left.
The main difference between the worship of Yah and the worship of Thor is this.
Yah is a jealous and vindictive deity. He wants you to only worship him and him alone. Not only that but he wants people to bow down and be like slaves. He sends people to hell for all eternity for not worshiping him. He gets angry often and in mythology kills people right and left. He also has a history of human sacrifices being made to him to appease his wrath, most notably Jesus Christ. People claim that the Christian God was a human in the flesh in history. Christians to often think their God is really an old bearded figure sitting on a golden chair in heaven.
Thor is know as a friend to all humankind and he doesn't mind if you honor other Gods. He isn't jealous. He doesn't punish people who don't worship him. Thor doesn't want people to bow down and grovel, the Norse Gods want their followers to stand up proudly and see them as friends and family, not as masters. In Asatru we are seen as their kin, not as inferior, submissive pawns. No one has ever done a human sacrifice to Thor. No one claims that Thor was an actual human. I do not believe Thor is actually a muscular, man-shaped entity carrying a big hammer. This is just an image created in the mind to approach an understanding of him.
2007-02-13 07:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one ever claimed Thor was the only god.
Although Yahweh started out as a tribal Semitic volcano-god, it was eventually interpreted to refer to a universal unitary reality -- the ground of possibility or being, etc. The problem came in the ascription of the characteristic of that tribal god to the new philosophical concept -- hence we have the unitary ground of being getting pissed off with people for violating purity codes, etc.Basically, faith in Yahweh is much more deeply incoherent than belief in Thor.
2007-02-13 07:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because thor recently destroyed all the asguardian gods in Thor Dissasembled.
Therefore there are no viking gods anymore, thor killed them all to "break the circle" of a group of other gods feeding off thier life energy and bringing his people ragnorok and honorable deaths.
2007-02-13 07:32:14 · answer #3 · answered by Bluto Blutarsky4 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, all of the worshipers of Thor dumped him for Jesus centuries ago, and Thor did nothing about it.
2007-02-13 07:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i believe in God... but husband believes in Thor and Odin
we dont see much of a difference except what we call our diety
2007-02-13 07:39:17 · answer #5 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thor is cooler (He has a hammer)
2007-02-13 07:34:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sure they're too diverse issues, trust is form of someone status behide u & u fall lower back hoping they'd capture u. faith is like no longer some thing behide u & u fall lower back hoping some thing or stress capture u.
2016-11-27 20:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by mguyen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One is faith in an ancient mythical god, and the other is faith in a mispronounced word..
2007-02-13 07:33:52 · answer #8 · answered by XX 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thor is dead.
Jesus is alive.
2007-02-13 07:38:28 · answer #9 · answered by Char 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The former has a few more followers today, that's all.
2007-02-13 07:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋