Y'all are gonna get Thor on the list of things we can't discuss if you keep going on about Norse Mythology vs Christianity. Just a word of caution.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Y'all are gonna get Thor on the list of things we can't discuss if you keep going on about Norse Mythology vs Christianity. Just a word of caution.
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You've got it backwards, at best. Christianity used the religions practiced by native peoples to explain the religion *to those people*. If it were an integration/merging, that would mean that when missionaries went to South America, they'd be talking about Ragnarok to the Incas, and telling the Zulu's about how Loki was trying to tempt them into evil deeds and thought when they went to Africa.
Sure, they may have said to the Norse "Yeah, Ragnarok happened, and then..Genesis!" but that's not merging Christianity with Odinism. That's just a practical matter of "how do we get these people to believe what we believe, without getting an axe between our eyes for insulting their gods?" If it were anything more than that, that's what missionaries would have taught everywhere. A merging, or integration would mean that the missionaries beliefs had changed to incorporate the beliefs of the natives they were proselytizing to...they did not.
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