Could Asatru take the place of Bible based religion?

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THE ASATRU FOLK ASSEMBLY: ASATRU FAQ
Copyright (C) 1995 by Stephen A. McNallen
Excerpted for education purposes.
Long before Christianity came to northern Europe, the people there -
our ancestors - had their own religions. One of these was Asatru. It
was practiced in the lands that are today Scandinavia, England,
Germany, France, the Netherlands, and neighboring areas. Asatru is
the original or native religious belief for the peoples who lived in
these regions.
WHAT DOES THE WORD "ASATRU" MEAN?
It means, roughly, "belief in the Gods" in Old Norse, the language of
ancient Scandinavia in which so much of our source material was
written. Asatru is the name by which the Norsemen called their
religion.
WHEN DID ASATRU START?
Asatru is thousands of years old. Its beginnings are lost in
prehistory, but it is older than Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or
most other religions. The spiritual impulses it expresses are as
ancient as the European peoples themselves - at least forty thousand
years, and perhaps much older.
WHY DO WE NEED ASATRU? AREN'T MOST PEOPLE WHO WANT RELIGION SATISFIED
WITH CHRISTIANITY OR ONE OF THE OTHER "ESTABLISHED" RELIGIONS?
People are attracted to the better-known religions because they have
genuine spiritual needs which must be filled. People are looking for
community and for answers to the "big questions": What life is all
about, and how we should live it. For many people today, the
so-called major faiths do not have answers that work. Asatru has
answers, but it has not been an alternative for most seekers because
they haven't known about it. Once they realize that there is another
way - a better, more natural, more honorable way - they will not be
satisfied with anything less than a return to the religion of their
ancestors.
WHY IS THE RELIGION OF OUR ANCESTORS THE BEST ONE FOR US?
Because we are more like our ancestors than we are like anyone else.
We inherited not only their general physical appearance, but also
their predominant mental, emotional, and spiritual traits. We think
and feel more like they did; our basic needs are most like theirs.
The religion which best expressed their innermost nature - Asatru - is
better suited to us than are the Middle Eastern religions which arose
among people who are essentially different from us. Christianity,
Islam, and Judaism are alien religions which do not truly speak to our
souls.

Answer 1

It has in my heart, I'm an Asatruar.

Answer 2

There are those that can study historical Greek and Hebrew. One hardship along with your plan is that the committees date back to the origins of Christianity. the religion has been socially built provided that its inception. The canon better out of what grew to become into being practiced interior the centers of the religion. yet another is that if we've been to obey Jesus in trouble-free terms we'd could discard just about all the recent testomony. there's a centuries long hollow between the existence and death of Jesus and the gospels. just about all of it's the recollection of a few adult men, no longer contemporaneous with christ's existence. So whether we do flow to the unique texts we are nonetheless coping with assertions. "...yet faith caved and is prepared to make concessions to maintain followers." this could be your first clue that perchance faith is misguided. If we've been to stick to a doctrine based strictly on the bible could we then enable slavery? it is inspired interior the bible. What approximately rape? it is ideal. could women human beings have rights? they have none interior the bible. that's time for the top of religion.

Answer 3

I doubt it could take the place of bible based religions. A simple moral code including tolerance, and simple obvious golden rule type laws would probally fare better (don't kill, don't sleep with another mans wife, dont steal, contribute to the good of society, etc).
Religion in general seems to be loosing a battle to science and human self reliance.

Answer 4

It doesn't take a whole lot beyond having a charismatic leader with time and enough needy people to get a religion going.