Among the many foreign concepts perpetrated on my ancestors by the invasion of Christianity, one was the idea that belief mattered. Ancient paganism, whether from Northern Europe or elsewhere, is orthopraxic rather than orthodoxic, meaning that it is about what one does and not what one believes. Many come to modern heathenry with a focus on gods and rites. This is understandable, as most of us were raised with Christian influences (even if we did not grow up Christian) and many of us came to heathenry via Wicca as the latter is the most accessible of the modern alternative