Pagans fight for divine rights of old Greek gods

Scotsman ^ | September 21, 2003 | MATTHEW BRUNWASSER

[NYer]

"The Greek way is to establish a scientific society. Christianity today is hostile to science."

How much more scientific can society become?! Perhaps these folks support human cloning as a way to expand their band of pagan worshipers.

[NYer]

"Everything old is new again" PING!

[NYer]

An historical perspective through the eyes of this group:

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTIONS AGAINST THE HELLENES

[wideawake]

(1) Their described ritual has nothing to do with the rites of pagan Greek religion.

Greek religious ritual was based on animal sacrifice and sexual orgies.

Their religion is just made up and has no historical basis.

(2) Recognition of a religion by the state in the EU means government subsidies for the religion. "Olympios" is looking for a handout, not religious freedom.

(3) Neither their made-up religion nor the authentic polytheistic religion of ancient Greece has anything to do with science or rationality. The scientific understanding of the Greeks arose as a reaction against the clumsy and primitive notions of Greek religion and their inadequacy for explaining the world.

Aristotle's Unmoved Mover was not Zeus the celestial rapist.

This whole thing is so stupid, only a university professor could have come up with it.

[NYer]

only a university professor could have come up with it.

Lol ... that's some field trip he's taken his students on.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

"The 44-year-old is indignant that the Greek Orthodox Church today builds new churches at every site where an ancient temple is uncovered."

Funny.

[xzins]

Revelation 9:11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.[ 9:11 Abaddon and Apollyon mean Destroyer.]

A religion of demons.

[redgolum]

Like the Druid "religion" in Britain, Wiccans here, and pagans everywhere, the Christain church is being attacked by the list of usual suspects.

[wideawake]

A religion of demons.

It certainly is, and professedly so. Any worshipper of the Greek pantheon is by definition a worshipper of Pluto - the lord of Hell.

[eastsider]

Any worshipper of the Greek pantheon is by definition a worshipper of Pluto ...

And Uranus : )

[Skooz]

The Greek way is to establish a scientific society.

TOGA! TOGA! toga Toga Toga TOGA TOGA! TOGA!

[wideawake]

"I gave my love a cherry that had no stone . . . "

[Skooz]

"I gave my love a chicken that had no bone . . . "

[dsc]

"The Hellenes still mourn the end of their civilisation in the 4th Century AD, when Christians representing the new official religion of the Roman Empire began destroying their temples, statues and libraries."

Hey, you snooze, you lose.

But, man, they must live to a ripe old age in Greece if they still have people around who saw that.

What an interesting coincidence that I happen to be re-reading Chesterton's The Everlasting Man just now. Very pertinent.

[NYer]

If you click on the link in my #3 post .. now this is funny!

314 Immediately after its full legalisation, the Christian Church attacks the Gentiles: The Council of Ancyra denounces the worship of Goddess Artemis.

324 Emperor Constantine declares Christianism as the only official Religion of the Roman Empire. In Dydima, Minor Asia, he sacks the Oracle of the God Apollo and tortures the pagan priests to death. He also evicts all the Gentiles from Mt. Athos and destroys all the local Hellenic Temples.

[NYer]

Pluto - the lord of Hell.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Poor babies! I guess after 300 years of martyring Christians, what goes around comes around!

They act like this was all a big surprise that a Christian state should consider the Pagans dangerous.

I find it funny that Christians apparently aren't gentiles (is the author implying they are all Jews???).

[eastsider]

324 Emperor Constantine declares Christianism as the only official Religion of the Roman Empire.

Constantine made Christianity a recognized religion; Theodosius (379-395) completed the process by making Christianity the only recognized religion.

[Bat_Chemist]

If only Disney had known what he was starting....

[RobbyS]

I loved that, too. As for the gods, Plato's view of the divine was so different from that of Greek mythology that Hellenic Jews "accused" him of having ripped off Moses.