[AnAmericanMother]

The usual goofy kumbayah crowd, who haven't got a clue what the old pagans were really like.

As C.S. Lewis said, I would like to see these jokers try to sacrifice a white bull . . .

[goldstategop]

Sounds like a bunch of liberals with too much time on their hands. Monotheism is more valid than paganism.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Was Emil Muzz there? How about Pep Streebeck?

[Antoninus]

Pah, they didn't even slaughter a few bulls in his honor? Please! To pray to a pagan god with no sacrifice offerings is an insult, much more likely to bring down the lightning than anything else.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Hi, I'm Emil Muzz and I'm a Pagan

[RightWhale]

We do not believe in dogmas and decrees, as the other religions do. We believe in freedom of thought," Stathopoulos said.

All of us. Those who don't are hereby discommunicated and have to leave. Heretics!

[trisham]

Ellinais was founded last year and has 34 official members, mainly academics, lawyers and other professionals. It won a court battle for state recognition of the ancient Greek religion and is demanding the government register its offices as a place of worship, a move that could allow the group to perform weddings and other rites.

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They sound like most of the moonbats from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[Antoninus]

Ellinais was founded last year and has 34 official members, mainly academics, lawyers and other professionals.

Ah, well that explains a lot.

"The Christians shut down our schools and destroyed our temples," said Yiannis Panagidis, a 36-year-old accountant at the ceremony.

Gee, and those peace-loving pagans never did anything to Christians and Christian Churches, now did they?

Unlike the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the old religion lacked written ethical guidelines,

Which is why they have such attraction for "academics, lawyers and other professionals."

"We do not believe in dogmas and decrees, as the other religions do. We believe in freedom of thought," Stathopoulos said.

Right.....

[aristotleman]

This sounds very greek.
I bet they spend most of their time together drinking and fighting about sports and politics.

They are sitting on a pile of history and a heap of national pride, and they are romantics. Not liberals, extreme nationalist rightwingers.

Harmless.

Merely challenging the stranglehold that the orthodox religion has on greek society.

[brooklyn dave]

As if there wasn't any education and philosophy going on in the Byzantine period?

[Dead Corpse]

"Our message is world peace and an ecological way of life in which everyone has the right to education," said Kostas Stathopoulos, one of three "high priests" overseeing the event, which celebrated the nuptials of Zeus and Hera, the goddess of love and marriage.

Fluffy-headed nonsense. There was very little "peace" in most of the old religions. Trying to shoehorn the old beliefs into their mushy-brained liberalism is an insult.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No blood sacrifice?

Come on. If you are going to be a Pagan then do it right. What is the world coming to when you release doves rather then carve out livers?

How are you going to know when the rains will come without reading the entrails?

This is not paganism, this is tree huggin hippy dippy crap. Greeks never hugged trees. Except for Sunshine Boy, but he was a little strange.

[Continental Soldier]

What a sad display. Time to grow up, folks.

[apro]

"It won a court battle for state recognition of the ancient Greek religion and is demanding the government register its offices as a place of worship, a move that could allow the group to perform weddings and other rites."

What a bunch of bull. Proof again that AFP has not clue what its talking about. This religion "won" the right to be recognized as a "cultural association", which means its part of Greek culture, and no one has ever denied that ancient Greek religion was not part of the Greek culture, it has not been official religion recognized as a state religion by Greece. Only 3 religions are official recognized by the Greek government and those are Orthodox Christianity, Judaism and Islam. What this means is that these 3 religions are the only officially recognized faiths by the state considered to be "legal persons of public law." Other non state recognized religions, including Ellinais above, are considered "legal persons of private law." which means in practice, the primary distinction is that the Civil Code's provisions pertaining to corporations regulate the establishment of "houses of prayer" for every non state recognized religions, meaning they need proper legal permits to have "Houses of Prayer" just as a private citizen needs the proper legal permits to have a commercial company.