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By the power of Zeus, ancient gods are back (Greeks allowed to worship pagan gods)
Kathimerini ^
| 03/24/2006
| kathimerini
Posted on 03/26/2006 6:37:32 AM PST by Feldkurat_Katz
By the power of Zeus, ancient gods are back
Worship of the 12 gods of Mount Olympus associated with ancient Greece could, thanks to a decision by a first-instance court in Athens, become part of the country’s contemporary culture.
In a ruling made public yesterday, the court allowed the formation of an association whose members claim to worship Zeus and the other 11 gods.
“I support everybody’s right to practice their faith, whichever it may be, without hindrance,” said Apostolos Vrachiolidis, a journalist and one of the founding members of the association. Members of the group deny that they engage in idolatry. “We simply want to worship the gods of our ancestors freely,” a member who preferred to remain anonymous told Kathimerini.
The Church of Greece takes a dim view of this type of worship, linking it to New Age practices.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: arcadia; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; greece; kylikes; mountlykaion; mountolympus; mtlykaion; mtlykaions; mycenaean; mycenaeans; pagans; zeus
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Note: in Greece they have an established church.
To: A. Pole
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:38:06 AM PST
by
Feldkurat_Katz
(What no women’s magazine ever offers to improve is women’s minds - Taki)
To: Feldkurat_Katz
I've been worshipping Dionysus for years.
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:39:51 AM PST
by
Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
To: Feldkurat_Katz
I can understand that given Thermopylae.
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:40:56 AM PST
by
bkepley
To: bkepley
If Scientology can be tax-exempt as a religious cult, er organization...
To: Feldkurat_Katz
linking it to New Age practices. There is nothing "new" to this at all.
It is the same old paganism, and the same old lie.
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:44:00 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Feldkurat_Katz
Members of the group deny that they engage in idolatry. “We simply want to worship the gods of our ancestors freely,”...... Well, yes, they have to have some idols before they can engage in idolatry. Until then, they'll have to settle for simply being pagans.
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:50:06 AM PST
by
jimtorr
To: Feldkurat_Katz
At least the Greek gods are entertaining, with their petty jealousies and one-upsmanship behavior. I wonder if these people genuinely believe that the earth is being held up on the shoulders of Atlas?
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:50:56 AM PST
by
speedy
To: speedy
I picture an old Steve Reeves movie.
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:52:18 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(DO NOT read to the end of this tagline . . . Oh, $#@%^, there you went and did it.)
To: Feldkurat_Katz
Can we get the Oracle to pick the "Final Four" now?
To: Feldkurat_Katz
"Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: 'Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.'"
--Acts 17:22, NIV
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:53:14 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(What's New Testament Greek for "Oh, no, not THIS s**t again"? I don't remember learning that one.)
To: Feldkurat_Katz
The Church of Greece takes a dim view of this type of worship, linking it to New Age practices. More like old age practices...nothing new under the sun...
To: SkyPilot
"
It is the same old paganism, and the same old lie.."I wouldn't be surprised if all the "god statues" were to return to prominence...Except of course that altar to the "Unknown God" in Acts 17.
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posted on
03/26/2006 6:56:03 AM PST
by
labette
(Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?)
To: RichInOC
Beat me by three minutes.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:02:04 AM PST
by
labette
(Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?)
To: speedy
***I wonder if these people genuinely believe that the earth is being held up on the shoulders of Atlas?***
It isn't?
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:04:03 AM PST
by
Robwin
To: labette
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:04:58 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(What's New Testament Greek for "Oh, no, not THIS s**t again"? I don't remember learning that one.)
To: Feldkurat_Katz
A satisfied worshiper leaving Sunday services....
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:07:53 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: Cincinatus
In an election year, that picture BEGS for some serious cut and paste.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:10:31 AM PST
by
labette
(Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?)
To: speedy
They're also Indo-European (along with the Æsir and Zarathustra) as opposed to Semitic religions like Islam.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:13:47 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Robwin
"***I wonder if these people genuinely believe that the earth is being held up on the shoulders of Atlas?***
It isn't?"
Nope. It rests on the back of a large, invisible turtle.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:18:56 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
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