“The man of the Nordic race does not think to desecrate foreign sanctuaries out of ‘zeal of faith,’ and the South Germanics did not regard it as shameful ‘to walk between the altars of the heathens and the church of God, showing respect to both.’ This saying of the Visigoths, transmitted by Gregory of Tours (540–594), is characteristic. When the Nordic man fails to respect what others hold sacred, it is a vice; yet the power-church considers it a merit to destroy the sanctuaries of the ‘heathens’ and then laments those ‘hardened heathens’ who resist such actions and ‘murder’ the holy Boniface.”
-J.C. Nachenius in “Nordic Race and Religion”, 1938
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