Paphitis wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:miltiades wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:It's very short-sighted to "curse" religion because the belief system you revere today is the product of religion.
Like I said earlier, the ancient gods and their habits have been influencing philosophy/ethics/morals and science, from early on to this day (with doses of evil injected by the Roman Catholic "Church" and Islam some centuries after inception).
Greek/Hellenic Orthodoxy carries with it all the goodness the ancient philosophers initiated (on which our Western laws are based) - to which has been added over time by wondrous individuals like Epictetus. You need only abandon the brainwashing the Catholics spread which has done so much harm in turning people against their spiritual enrichment, as found in Orthodoxy.
That might be the case but it does not alter the irrefutable fact that ancient man created god.
Indeed. I would definitely say that the ancient gods are the creation of man, reflecting human foibles, and since they do not exist they cannot have influenced man's thinking, Rather men have changed how they think about gods. That even exists in Orthodoxy where tenets of the church were set over a series of seven Councils from about 325 to 787, and where the primacy of Constantinople was largely a political construct to reflect Byzantine Imperial structures, rather than any reason connected with Christianity itself.
There is otherwise a Dichotomy in the argument in that according to Judea-Christian teaching the Greek gods are false, so if one is Christian one is likely committing heresy by claiming these gods exist..
Yes but at least the Greek Mythology among others such as the Vikings etc were very interesting.
The Ancient Greeks never rammed it down anyone's throat or start religiously driven wars. They also had the right balance between their belief and Maths and Science and have contributed an enormous amount to the advancement of man. Who can deny this?
The Ancient Athenians did in fact force Socrates to pour poison down his throat for the religious crime of impiety as he seemingly did not believe in the Hellenic gods. As a great and free thinker he probably concluded they did not exist .
