{"id":183184,"date":"2015-02-03T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/03\/give-me-that-old-time-religion-2\/"},"modified":"2015-02-03T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T01:11:00","slug":"give-me-that-old-time-religion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/03\/give-me-that-old-time-religion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me That Old Time Religion\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ucO73TA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ucO73TA.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"370\" \/><\/a>In Iceland, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/feb\/02\/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years\">the first temple to Norse gods since Viking will be built in over 1000 years<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island\u2019s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,\u201d said Hilmar \u00d6rn Hilmarsson, high priest of \u00c1satr\u00faarf\u00e9lagi\u00f0, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Membership in \u00c1satr\u00faarf\u00e9lagi\u00f0 has tripled in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members last year, out of a total population of 330,000, data from Statistics Iceland showed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The temple will be circular and will be dug 4 metres (13ft) down into a hill overlooking the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, with a dome on top to let in the sunlight.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good news though, they will <b>not<\/b> be returning to animal sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Iceland, the the first temple to Norse gods since Viking will be built in over 1000 years: Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island\u2019s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1021,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-religion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}