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Agnostic
2004-10-03, 03:16
Does anyone belive in the greek gods... or know anyone that belives i the greek gods.
A couple of years ago in priamry school a teacher would come around Friday arvo's and teach us greek mythology and it was pretty good. But does anyone actually belive it.
theBishop
2004-10-03, 03:30
In america, there is a fringe, but still present "neo-pagan" movement. It's sort of an "alliance" of druids, Greek mythology followers, wiccans, etc.
Druidism is especially funny because there is extremely little known about what the Druids actually believed and how they worshipped.
So in short, yes, some people follow it, but i don't know anyone who actually thinks it's true.
theBishop
napoleon_complex
2004-10-03, 04:29
ALL NON-CATHOLICS ARE PAGANS!!!!!!!!!!
Or that is what I tell every non-catholic at my high school, and they think I'm serious.
Agnostic
2004-10-03, 07:03
I would like to see a bunch of druids holding hands and jumping around trees it would be funny.
MasterPython
2004-10-03, 08:23
I have seen Wiccan websites that claim they worship Greek Gods, Roman Gods and Egyptian Gods. It is pretty funny.
LostCause
2004-10-04, 19:40
Nope. That religion is pretty much dead, immortalized by it's facinating mythology and incredible history.
Catholicism is the modern version of that religion, though.
Cheers,
Lost
KikoSanchez
2004-10-04, 21:14
The whole idea of pantheism in the way that Greek mythology interprets it just seems annoying, if anything, to me. I mean, do we really need a Love Goddess??? What does she do? Make love connections? The idea of assigning a god/goddess to every idea/emotion/action etc appears to clash with what we might call 'free will'.
xtreem5150ahm
2004-10-05, 02:00
quote:Originally posted by LostCause:
Nope. That religion is pretty much dead, immortalized by it's facinating mythology and incredible history.
Catholicism is the modern version of that religion, though.
Cheers,
Lost
LOL..come on, fess up...you just wanted to get a rise outa Zman, didnt you?
inquisitor_11
2004-10-05, 03:30
^ possibly, although catholicism, the orthodox churches and christianity at large can be seen as having appropriated a lot of earlier and contemporary pagan mythology
quote:Originally posted by xtreem5150ahm:
LOL..come on, fess up...you just wanted to get a rise outa Zman, didnt you?
http://hunter.apana.org.au/~gallae/pantheon/doctrine/mirror/origin.htm
For such an inspired work, you would think the bible would have some more originality...