tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post1845691397022917275..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: All hail ZeusGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-21614794105370989862013-07-18T06:26:08.666-07:002013-07-18T06:26:08.666-07:00To me, this seems like more a hobby than a religio...To me, this seems like more a hobby than a religion. There's no particular reason to believe the details of ancient religious rituals matter unless you were brought up doing things in that particular way. Of course, people deeply believe all sorts of things that there's no particular reason to think are true, but there would generally be a motivation for it, which I don't see here.Tyler Torkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460706772136362593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-26878147154657247252013-06-24T07:39:46.476-07:002013-06-24T07:39:46.476-07:00Apparently you (and Dawkins) need to spend a littl...Apparently you (and Dawkins) need to spend a little time around the neopagan community. Revival of the "old gods" is nothing new. While a lot of pagans are rather...touchy, feely, new-agey, silliness (imo).<br />But there are serious "Reconstructionists" who try to go back to the old ways of worshiping gods of various pantheons in as "authentic" a manner as possible. These Reconstructionists consider research an important element of their religion, so as to be as true as possible (given some of today's laws) to the original practice.<br />There are Norse Reconstructionists (many call themselves Asatruar - true to the Aesir, the main Norse pantheon), Greek Reconstructionists (Hellenists), Egyptian Reconstructionists (Kemeticists), etc. for just about any pantheon you can think of.<br />Here's a Wikipedia article on Polytheistic Reconstructionism, it's brief, but basically correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheistic_reconstructionismAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09842190608121490293noreply@blogger.com