Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24577079-20141203031648/@comment-5789047-20151215000041

Spartian300 wrote: Nazism did outright praise the old Norse religions, mainly because they were Germanic. The Nazis encourages anything Germanic.

But, back on topic, anything could have taken the place of Christianity. And the point I made about explorers was William (forgot the second name), the guy who actually travelled around the Mongol Empire. The Danes even re-established contact with Greenland because they thought that they were still pagan, only to find the Inuit people. Furthermore, the first American colony to actually not go balls up, Plymouth, was founded by people who wanted to practice their own version of Christianity. You know, John Smith and the Baptists? Source? Last time I checked the Nazis [assively supported Christianity. Hell, I'm pretty sure it's in their 25 Points.

William's part of the 1% of the explorers who actually travelled for faith rather than commerce or prestige.

When was contact reestablished with Greenland? They probably weren't even sure Greenland existed.

The colonists weren't explorers, they were just that: colonists, and if they didn't colonize anything there other group would have, perhaps even a group of persecuted people of a completely other faith (e.g. Celtic Pagans in a Mithraic established Britain). Also, they weren't even the first colony to not go ball's up; Jamestown anyone?