Perhaps these people would be happy if a god like Dionysus was worshipped instead. After all, he never hurt anyone, right?
“Perhaps these people would be happy if a god like Dionysus was worshipped instead. After all, he never hurt anyone, right?”
This sort of idea actually goes back to Nietzsche and his followers, who maintained that the pagan cults were robust and masculine and that Christianity weakened and pacified mankind. The Nazis then took it up as well, and Hitler (an admirer of Islam) often lamented that Germany was a Christian nation.