Return of the Gods

Hellenismos is the reconstructionist religion of the ancient Greeks.It’s not unpopular amongst Pagans. But this group has actually gone one up.

They’ve petitioned the greek government and won the right to practise their Old Time Religion in the country of its birth which up to now has ironically banned it.
Here's the story in a nutshell

Their demands?

"What we want, now, is for the government to fully recognise our religion," Vasillis Tsantilas told the Guardian. "We will petition the Greek parliament, and the EU if that fails, for access to worship in places like the Acropolis, for permission to have our own cemeteries and, where necessary, to re-bury the [ancient] bones of the dead.

Here, and in most of Europe and even in that bastion of religious repression, the US errr…Afghanistan,Pagans are not actually prevented from practising.

Of course, they could be laughed out of the neighbourhood, but then that’s their problem.
In Greece however, up to the present:

About 98% of Greeks are Orthodox Christian, and all other religions except Judaism and Islam had been banned.

What really got me chuckling was the arch Holiness of the Greek Orthodox Church, or some such Primate, who says of the Reconstructionists:

"They are a handful of miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past."

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