Just curious
2006-12-10 01:50:51 · 12 answers · asked by ekam 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not as part of an unbroken tradition. Once Christianity became part of the political in crowd of the roman empire being a non christian was a lethally dangerous hobby.
Hypatia -- the non-Christian scholar, philosopher, and teacher renown throughout the Mediterranean world for her devotion to learning and enlightenment -- steps onto her chariot to ride through town to the great Library of Alexandria. A mob gathers, chanting slogans against her. The rioters close in, jamming Hypatia's chariot to a stop, grabbing her, jerking her down and out into the street where eager hands strip the young woman naked. Jeering they drag her to a church where officials promptly butcher her. Gibbon describes: "her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames." [Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Ch XLVII]
2006-12-10 02:26:26 · answer #1 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For your information, Greece was one of the first countries to embrace Christianity, after Greece it moved to Rome. The 12 gods of ancient Greece are classified as mythological gods.
2006-12-10 02:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by markos m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Worship the Son of God, not the god of the Sun."
Catchy, isn't it?
Why would they need a catch phrase if there wasn't something to sell?
Disney managed to sell the old gods pretty well in the Hercules movie. Perhaps your question should be less about what people believe and more about what sells.
"Our God, who starts at seven,
Halliburton be thy game
Thy kingpin come, whose pills we down,
On turf, so it sells on Seventh Heaven."
Please turn off your TV.
2006-12-10 02:39:22 · answer #3 · answered by auntiegrav 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or Norse people worshipping Odin and Thor?
I wondered about the old Gods, religious nuts will shout, false Gods, but they were real at the time!
2006-12-10 01:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No they died out a long time ago, although some modern day pagans may do this in Greece or Rome.
2006-12-10 01:53:26 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lets bring back all the old gods that will realey screw up all the world domantion the christians have been trying to do for the past 2000yrs
2006-12-10 01:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually yes there are still some who cling to the old ways
2006-12-10 01:53:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It must be a very rare group because there are no longer any news of those.
2006-12-10 01:53:10 · answer #8 · answered by shadow_prophet2k6 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cant be sure because I know Americans who are Pagans so anythings possible......
2006-12-10 02:02:10 · answer #9 · answered by cereal_killer034 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I think that all Greeks have moved on from those beliefs.
2006-12-10 01:52:51 · answer #10 · answered by kwightman69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋