[GeronL]

[GeronL]

They teach that stuff in English Class all over the US too.

[ladyinred]

They are coming out of the woodwork these days.

[followerofchrist]

There's nothing wrong with nations keeping their indigenous cultures intact. Christianity was Europeanized and our own holidays reflect our indigenous cultures and holidays rather than Jesus and Yahweh. The Lord doesn't care about our trappings, if we remain Greek or German or Irish, or what our cultural rituals are, as long as we recognize Him as Lord and savior and follow His law for living. Amen and long live cultural diversity. It is the tapestry if life..

[martin_fierro]

Pagans are reviving the polytheistic religions of the ancient Greeks,and other civilizations.

*whew* Thank Tree.

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[claudiustg]

Are they going to celebrate winter solstise by hanging prisoners from the trees in the sacred groves of Oden?

[RayChuang88]

You really have to wonder what the modern Greeks think about this. People forget that the Orthodox branch of Christianity started there, and they are EXTREMELY devout to Christian teachings.

By the way, the reason why there were a lack of people in the stands at the Olympics today was the fact today is a major Orthodox religious holiday in Greece.

[dsc]

"Berman is a Hellenic reconstructionist"

No, Berman is a nutbar.

[Lee N. Field]

>As a young teenager, she practiced Wicca. By college, she was into Celtic spirituality, but moved to the Greek gods literally overnight when, she recalled, a god appeared to her in a dream and said, "I am Apollo. You belong to me."

Anything, absolutely anything, to avoid Christianity.

[Dominick]

Act 19:24-27
For a certain [man] named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought;

My father taught me, nobody champions something like this for free, and this passage emphasizes this. In that day people were loose about the gods, participating in decadence in temples. When presented with a God that was tangible, they flocked to Christianity in droves.

I knew a woman who did this, it was more a game to her. She thought any religion was equal and so she worshiped the Roman gods. I personally think this paganism is the fruit of indifferentism. She figured that any faith was better than atheism. The only faith she would not abide was mine, Catholicism.

If you can swap Churches like crazy, why not gods?

[biblewonk]

for any mention of Zeus, Athena or Apollo.

Who cares about Zeus, Athena or Apollo, when do we get naked and dance around a tree?

[ApesForEvolution]

People will try every counterfeit under the sun, yet not the only truth in the entire universe...amazing.

And the majority of believers then deny any of God's power in their lives by denying God's Word and God's Holy Spirit.

Shame...

[good_fight]

I imagine Andrea Berman, self-proclaimed spiritual "dabbler" will, five years hence, look back on her current spiritual preoccupation as yet one more in a series of ultimately unfulfilling diversions. Still -- I pray for her and all others that genuinely seek the truth that they find it, through the mercy of God.

An aside: Why is it that dabblers in "Celtic spirituality" never quite seem to stumble across the Christianity of the British Isles, which was established at least as early as the second century AD? The great Celtic saints -- Ninian, Cuthbert, Alban, Brigid, Columba, Patrick, and others -- never serve as inspiration, only some vague and ill-recorded shadows of what they imagine Druidism might be.

No, these New Age seekers only wish to adopt those parts of spiritual practices which enhance their own sense of self as gods in their universe.

[The_Reader_David]

Reviving paganism can't really be done. Even Julian the Apostate couldn't pull it off, and he had a generation of actual pagans to work with. He ended up with a bizarrely trinitarian solar monotheism overlaid with the cult of the old gods. The 'new age' neo-pagans end up the same: odd little bits of Christianity mixed in with a romanticized version of some half-understood old pagan religion. (Notice neo-druids don't sacrifice deer anymore, let alone humans, out of some sort of sentimentality which has more in common with Victorian Anglicanism than any sort of historic paganism.)

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - see Romans 1:18 to the end of the chapter!