[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!

[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.

[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.

[redgolum]

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

[Skooz]

The Greek way is to establish a scientific society.

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

[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.

[longtermmemmory]

These are wackos, no significance in Greece. Ignore them because they have it all wrong.

Sounds like a looser trying to get laid by inventing a new religion based on a few familiar reference points. This moron has been smoking a few joints to many.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[MarMema]

Orthodoxy is especially hostile to science. This is who they are attacking in their statement about science.

[MarMema]

"The Bishop said they would have to throw a cross in the lake to cleanse it of us," Buschbeck said.

What a hoot!!

[katnip]

For a group that's trying to get their "religion" recognized, you'd think they would get their story straight.

Buschbeck explained that Hellenes do not worship the pantheon of 12 gods as deities. Rather, each god represents a natural phenomena or human value.

And then from their website:

but... The Gods never left us, and they are back among us !!

I guess they're not afraid of offending these "gods" LOL.

[Protogenus]

To the Hellenes science is viewed as friendly to Cosmos (universe) (environmentally friendly) and anthropos (human beings), unlike the biblical dominion over creatures and resources. Even though the rational thought and the philanthropic science has its roots in the Hellenic Pagan civilization, the west dominated by the cosmopolitan religions of the desert(Judeo-Christian- Islam) brought havoc into nature and humanity. Cloning is considered “hybris” (insult) in the Hellenic world view, so we don’t play god. When hybris appears nemesis takes care of that and brings back the Natural Order.So the aim is to establish an anthropocentric and gaiocentric science based on the moral values of the eternal Hellenic philosophers.As far as I know the cosmopolitan religions failed.