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The forest is dying, the air is always growing worse, the rivers, lakes and oceans are filled with toxins, many varieties of animals and plants are threatened with extinction or are already vanished from the Earth. A vision of the future? No, in many areas this is already the reality. Humanity bears the blame for these evils, who for reasons of their own material advantage destroy their own surroundings--the natural environment.
Why does humanity do this, why don't they live as all the other living things do, in harmony with nature? The answer to this question lies in the false thinking of the human race, because first comes thought, then action. A tree is no longer seen as a living thing, but as so many board-feet of lumber, evaluated solely for its economic value. Animals are divided into 'useful' and 'harmful' categories, treated as objects, and tormented in laboratory experiments. Blame for this twisted view of nature is the erroneous conception of the world promoted by the ruling world religions. Oriental Christianity--born in a desert--sees in the earth only a vale of tears to be gotten through as quickly as possible, so that the soul can get to heaven. Happiness on this earth, a paradise in the here and now, as our Heathen ancestors strove for, is impossible under this view of the world. Also the growing materialism that teaches that only with much money is happiness possible is a consequence of Christianity: The dogmas of Christianity, wholly contradicting reason, cause many to leave not only Christianity, but all forms of religion and spirituality.
The Germanic and Celtic tribes who are our immediate ancestors, saw every animal, every tree,
and even the very stones as individual living beings. The forces of nature, the wind, thunder,
rain, fire, and vegetation were seen as the working of divine powers which should be honored,
even worshipped. The unjustified killing of animals, felling of trees, or contamination of water
was punished--even though in those days the concept of 'enivironmental pollution' was unheard
of. The human being was not above or outside of nature, but was a part of nature. In the
Germanic Faith-Community we want to revive this way of thinking to act appropriately, for and
with nature, and to ensure the survival of the whole Earth. We don't want to live for a distant
'life to come', but we want to make Paradise a reality here on Earth.
From the Introductory Booklet of the Germanic Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (Germanic
Faith-Community), an Asatru group founded Germany in the year 1907. Written by: Geza
von Nemenyi. Translation from the German by: Nissa Annakindt
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