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The Asatru Folk Assembly has morphed from a seemingly romantic celebration of Viking myths to an all-white, explicitly racist religious group. Renee Jones Schneider / Star Tribune via AP
Dec. 18, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC / Updated Dec. 18, 2020, 5:42 PM UTC
In 2015, the Asatru Folk Assembly, a religious group devoted to the worship of the Norse pantheon, opened its first physical house of worship in Brownsville, California, calling it Odinshof — the "Temple of Odin." In a celebratory post on the AFA's Facebook page, Odinshof is revealed to be a red building adorned with Nordic runes and flanked by a celebratory, posing crowd — every single one of whom is white, the California sun shining through their sheaves of blond hair.