And yes, he was named for #WilliamBirkin the mouthy little blond scientist.

They really did. Asatru will always be regarded with suspicion, and the Buddhists, Hindus, and Shintoists lost an important and once-beautiful symbol. Fascism taints everything that it touches.

Ours is a gross pseudo-Christian syncretism that only enforces the lies about racial superiority, might makes right, and American exceptionalism. Each nation gets the government that it deserves, and this is the final product of the pilgrims' descent upon this continent.

What modern fascists in America have is a mythologized version of American history, a few fragments of the aryan myth, and protestantism taken to its logical extreme. Sure, it lacks the flair of Germany's fascist religion, but the principal beneath is the same...

They fused this all with ancient Germanic religion—or what they understood it to be, after centuries of bastardization by the Christian church. What emerged was a strange, fascinating, but ultimately plagiarized occult movement in which all of the leaders and SS members were deeply involved.

Let's take the Nazi religion religion for example, which they built to replace Christianity. It was cobbled together from misinterpreted Eastern beliefs and Western esotericism—especially Blavatsky and the OTO's work (which was also misappropriated, but that's a story for later)