... and didn't have the knowledge of modern science, would you more or less likely be an Atheist?
2007-09-21 00:01:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I was of that era, I would have fallen for the BS just like anyone else. However, I am not of that era.
Odd that the Greek government have recently OK'd the worship of Zeus and his merry band again.
Well, makes sense, really. They were MUCH more interesting.
2007-09-21 00:07:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it would be necessary to be an atheist (why capitalize it?) under those conditions. The ancient Greek philosophers were pretty much free to study and think and talk about what they believed. There may have been a few cases where they were criticized (Socrates, for example), but on the whole, Athena and Zeus didn't demand nearly as much from people because they were not exclusive. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and all that. They were not particularly jealous in that sense.
2007-09-21 00:44:36 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
some do. I as quickly as examine an editorial saying what share Greeks wanted to worship in between the previous homes of Athens. The homes have been used through many historic Greeks to worship Athena and now people who nevertheless practiced that faith wanted to do an identical.
2016-10-19 07:15:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing you mean during the time of the worship of Zeus, Athena, etc, since these "g-ds" never really existed.
Interesting question... since there were a few lines of thought that more or less relegated the g-ds to an almost moot point, we could have been drawn to them, but not exactly sure when they arrived on the scene.
2007-09-21 00:08:28 · answer #4 · answered by Don't Try This At Home 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Socrates (470 BC–399 BC) was forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock tea because he publicly displayed his atheism and disrespected the gods that were popular in Greece at the time.
I'd like to think I would have been that courageous but I'd more likely be like the millions of USian xians who are non-believers in their heads and the only reason they say they are believers is cos it can be economic suicide in the US to say you're an atheist.
2007-09-21 00:21:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hardly. Without knowledge of modern science, they couldn't explain many phenomenas, so they had to believe ain something, Gods and Goddesses and other mythological creatures.
2007-09-21 00:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I would most likely believe in those gods. I can understand why the believe in a god came about and I think it was a good idea for the time. But now we know enough to stop persisting in these fantasies.
2007-09-21 00:09:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Chances are I'd follow the same mythology as everyone else did during that time period
2007-09-21 00:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A chance, but people were not often given a choice back then. I would wonder why the gods needed so much money and why the priests were always fat and the common people so skinny.
2007-09-21 00:13:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nah, I'd probably worship Apollo. Much more fun.
2007-09-21 00:08:17 · answer #10 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋