It is a great journey to coming home back to ancestral faith. It takes courage to start, but once you start upon the path, you'll only ask yourself why you didn't do it sooner

Meat was not daily or common food. One might slaughter an animal in order to entertain a guest, as Eumaeus did when Odysseus came to his hut, but this was considered as a sacrifice also. Generally speaking, the common people ate meat only at the sacrifices which accompanied the great festivals.

M.P.Nilsson

A Nazi German propaganda poster lambasting the Catholic Church for its relatively anti-racist, philosemitic rhetoric

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Note how philosophers have the same issues with real (literal) Pagan faith as christians. At least the latter believe in something, while platonists are just atheists in togas.

Soc. And do you really believe that the gods, fought with one another, and had dire quarrels, battles, and the like, as the poets say, and as you may see represented in the works of great artists?…Are all these tales of the gods true, Euthyphro?

Euth. Yes, Socrates

Plato Euthyphro

Cretan and Mycenaean Vapheio cups by Graman

German wearing a polar bear coat by Hermann Katsch

If one compares the Zoroastrian cult to the more healthy polytheisms of antiquity, one sees how bizarre and irrational it is, although Christianity has so accustomed us to it that few reflect on how pernicious is a belief in an evil god. No mental poison has been more deadly than the Zoroastrians’ great innovation, the basic tenet that the world is a battlefield on which two gods contend for mastery: a good god and an evil god, each of whom would be omnipotent, were it not for the other. For no intelligible reason, these two mighty supernatural beings, one of whom had the power to create the entire universe, have to recruit puny mortals for a war that is absurd anyway, since everyone knows that in the end the good god will overcome the evil god, take him captive, and settle down to torturing him for all eternity. In the meantime, however, all men must join one or the other army and fight desperately to destroy their enemies.

Revilo Oliver

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