Comments on: Zeus et. al. poised to make a comeback

By: Oldcola, FCD

Oldcola, FCD — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:09:21 +0000

For the particular case, of the Olympians, you may add an exacerbated nationalism and centuries old hate induced by massacres, by early Christians.
They have a nicely presented belief system, based on Plato’s mythology: immortal soul, heaven and paradise and purgatory and revival etc.

By: Oldcola, FCD

Oldcola, FCD — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:02:26 +0000

Now come on, Athena is so cool, and her sisters also: Aphrodite and Artemis.
And Dionysos! Wine and orgies for everybody.
And Hephaistos, not many gods building robots out there, isn’t it?
That’s a very nice collection of gods coming along with Zeus.
Disclosure: I’m greek

By: Roy Natian

Roy Natian — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:01:22 +0000

This hurts my head. Neopaganism sounds so willy-nilly, wish-washy, and vacuous. Arg.

By: Loren Petrich

Loren Petrich — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:36:45 +0000

Welcome to neopaganism — there is a whole subculture of neopagans, ranging from those who try to follow some old-time religion fairly closely (the Reconstructionists) to those who more or less make it up as they go along. And much of neopaganism, especially Wicca, does seem to be a modern invention.

It can be hard to tell what neopagans’ beliefs are, since neopagans are typically more focused on experience and practice rather than explicit belief. And neopaganism might reasonably be called a subset of New Age belief and practice.

It is also hard to estimate how many neopagans there are, because like New Agers, neopagans are only loosely organized and have no well-defined shared beliefs or practices. For the US, I’ve seen estimates like 300 thousand – 1 million, and for the UK, 250 thousand.

By: Mike Haubrich, FCD

Mike Haubrich, FCD — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:54:09 +0000

I am still waiting for Asatru to make it big. If we must have Gods, why not have Gods like Loki, Thor and Woden?