[coconutt2000]

Where are the real Greek gods when you really need them?

I mean they were petty, deceitful, jealous, and egotistical...

Oh my.... They're leading the Democratic Party.

[correctthought]

Well, alrighty then......... moving right along

[Dragonspirit]

LOL

Some people just don't get it. Religion is a genuine belief system, not a "Hmm... this looks interesting. I think I'll make THIS my religion." And choosing religion on the basis of 'sticking it to your parents' can only be described as, well, stupid.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"It is more or less like post-modern architecture," said Berger, who once attended a reconstructionist ceremony in which a pineapple was sacrificed.

Be kind to plants - eat meat. ;)

[trebb]

Gee - it must be a really bad time to find real news out there to put this tripe out...

[Larry Lucido]

"she recalled, a god appeared to her in a dream and said, "I am Apollo. You belong to me." "

I've tried that line before. It never worked for me.

[MikalM]

Actually, I have a lot of respect for the Reconstructionist pagans. They're at least trying to revive faiths that actually EXISTED, and guided whole civilizations. The "Wiccans," however, are following a "religion" that's really only about 50 years old, and is a mishmash of Masonic ritual, Anglo-Celtic folklore, and Gerald Gardner's own predilections for coed nudism and light S&M.

And please don't get me started on the Feminist/Dianic man-haters, or the Starhawkian "Watermelon Left"* "earth spirituality" scenes!

*"Watermelon": GREEN on the outside, but RED on the inside.

[Jaguar1942]

Just a spectator.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - paganism

[Tribune7]

It's incredible how people are willing to sell themselves back into slavery and superstition to appease fashion.

[Fintan]

"I will watch it to see if anything even remotely resembles anything I would know as an ancient ritual and tradition,"

 

So will I just to see if the women's synchronized swimming is performed in the nude, just like they did in ancient Greece.

 

[Zionist Conspirator]

Several comments:

1) This turning to pre-chr*stian European paganism seems kinda Nazi to me. I thought politically correct pagans could only follow the religions of "indigenous pipples."

2) It's idiotic for people to want to "restore" ancient religion and then suddenly throw out animal sacrifice because for some reason it's "wrong." Religion defines what is right and wrong, so if you're religion tells you animal sacrifice is okay, you should believe it's okay. More evidence of our skewed modern concept of a morality differentiated from (and above) religion. (Not that I'm sorry that animals aren't going to be sacrificed to false "gxds." But when the Great and Holy Temple of Jerusalem is rebuilt, there will be no sitting in judgment on the morality of the commandments of HaShem!)

3) The Olympics are pagan enough as they are (lighting an Olympic flame in the temple of z*us, which was inaugurated by Hitler, mach shemo), and the opening ceremonies celebrating man's evolution as a "logical being" struck me as the root of today's materialist idealism (Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, etc.).

Oh well. At least now the "palaeos" can really go crazy with the heritage of "western man!"

[Tangerine Time Machine]

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."

"And if you don't agree, I'll sic Athena on you and she'll turn you into a spider. Or maybe a deer. Wait, that was Diana. I'll do it, too. Just ask anyone. Ask Bullfinch. Hey, do you have a spaceship I could borrow?"

Honestly, some people...

[Moonmad27]

I'm no fan of made-up religions followed by New Agers but reconstructionists for Roman (or Greek) religion interest me, as at least that was a religion at one time. It sounds odd to us today but that was as current as the Christian church down the street or the synagogue across town are now. My favorite part of the New Testament is where St Paul sees the altar in Greece marked "To the Unknown God". It wasn't "ancient Greek religion" to him, and he doesn't curse it or denounce it, but uses the altar as the starting point for his calm, reasoned sermon to the crowd.

[Barnacle]

Reconstructionists are a group of neo-pagans–people who look to pre-Christian cultures for their faith

It would appear that "neo" = "frickin".