When I address them, it is in admiration as to acknowledge my part in what they have made. It is to call upon that which is of them, in me. After all, the Gods did not make man to worship them. They have no need of that. They made man as a work of art, as a reflection of them in Midgard.
Reflection is the key.
I follow Asatru because it reflects the world , the mythos of the Northman at once joyful and bitter, cosmic and homey, comic and tragic, unbelievable and full of truth, is I think, a genuine paradyne of reality. Lastly, Asatru does not claim to be the only truth but a truth discovered by a people. For others, there to are other truths. So Asatru, like all Pagan Religions is tolerant. Disrespectful at times perhaps, but tolerant.