(May 8, 2015 at 12:51 am)ignoramus Wrote: Yeah, but the Greek part will make up for it by allowing you to get your beef "fix" by the bloke behind you!
That wasn't a requirement of the ancient Greek religion.
In general, the ancient Greek religion was more tolerant than the monotheistic religions. It allowed for people to do things quite differently from each other, in ways that monotheism typically does not. For example, one person could focus on worshipping one god, and another could focus on worshipping another, and there was no problem with that. One could not possibly devote a lot of time to each and every god, and so it was not expected of anyone to do so. Thus you could be doing your worshipping quite differently from your next door neighbor, and that was fine. What was not fine was denying the existence of the gods; that part is the same as with monotheism. So it was not a good thing, but it was better than Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Of course, that is like saying something is better than having your toenails ripped out with flaming hot pincers.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
