Question

Why did the Vikings dislike Christianity?

The Vikings believed that their kings were the true gods.

Christians had invaded their lands in the 7th century.

The Vikings believed that there were no gods.

The theology of forgiveness clashed with the Viking's concept of revenge.

Answer 1

Ok so from what I know about that time period and their opinion based on science u would cross off answer options C and D, you would do that due to the fact that Christians theology of forgiveness and their concept of revenge never really clashed, and the Vikings actually believed there were gods and they only supported/worshipped their gods and blankly disliked any other religions beliefs.

This leaves us with answer options "A.)The Vikings believed that their kings were the true gods." and "B.)Christians had invaded their lands in the 7th century."


For a fact we should know Christians never "invaded" their land, the Vikings came overpopulated land filled with Christians, so technically the Vikings were like settlers on the Christian land.


This leaves us with the answer option "A.) The Vikings believed that their kings were the true gods."


Back to what I said earlier "the Vikings actually believed there were gods and they only supported/worshipped their gods and blankly disliked any other religions beliefs."

They only showed faithfulness to their gods of which they thought was real and was the only realistic gods, this caused them to not care about other religions and dislike the religion's gods/beliefs.


So your answer would be "A.)The Vikings believed that their kings were the true gods."