Greek Gods Making a Comeback

Every kid has had to study Greek mythology at some point in their life, and now those famous Greek gods are making a comeback with a new generation of devotees:

It has taken almost 2,000 years, but those who worship the 12 gods of ancient Greece have finally triumphed. An Athens court has ordered that the adulation of Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Athena and Co. is to be unbanned, paving the way for a comeback of pagans on Mount Olympus.

The followers, who say they "defend the genuine traditions, religion and ethos" of the ancients by adhering to a pre-Christian polytheistic culture, are poised to take their battle to the temples of Greece.

"What we want, now, is for the government to fully recognize our religion," Vasillis Tsantilas told Britain's Guardian newspaper. "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.

Apparently only Orthodox Christianity, Judaism and Islam are allowed in Greece, so this represents a very unwelcome change for local religious leaders.

Father Eustathios Kollas, who presides over the community of Greek priests, said: "They are a handful of miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past."

I don't think he likes it, but every society has their religious crazies. If they want to dance around and howl at the moon, who cares?