{"id":6913,"date":"2015-10-19T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2015-10-19T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:44:34","slug":"iceland-opens-pagan-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Opens Pagan Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iceland has been officially Christian for 1,000 years, but according to journalist and atheist Eygl\u00f3 Svala Arnarsd\u00f3ttir, \u201cIcelanders have never really been strictly Christian.\u201d She said they accepted Christianity with the understanding that that they would be allowed to quietly practice paganism. \u201cIt\u2019s not that people necessarily believe in the old Norse gods or have secret ceremonies in their basement,” she explained. It’s just a cultural value.<\/p>\n

Now they’re opening a pagan temple<\/a>. (via Prufrock)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iceland has been officially Christian for 1,000 years, but according to journalist and atheist Eygl\u00f3 Svala Arnarsd\u00f3ttir, \u201cIcelanders have never really been strictly Christian.\u201d She said they accepted Christianity with the understanding that that they would be allowed to quietly practice paganism. \u201cIt\u2019s not that people necessarily believe in the old Norse gods or have … Continue reading Iceland Opens Pagan Temple<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[1265,2128],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-iceland","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}