I have an essay I'm writing for my Myth class and I have to write 3 arguments on why we shouldn't worship the Greek gods, and can't seem to find any reason why we shouldn't. Help!
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I am not very good at this stuff but how about because we are talking about a religion which would struggle to be relevant in the modern world.
All religions have to fit the society they serve. Yes Christianity is old but the religious texts and ideas can be adapted to fit modern day life and so remains relevant.
Greek mythology is simply so far removed from the present that to be relevant today you would more or less have to rip it up and start from scratch.
I am now struggling to think of anything else at all.
I think that this is not a good question to be fair. In the developed world we can worship whoever we like. Really is there a difference between a Greek God and a Christian God? Different religion, different god and a different version of the same thing.
Sorry, that is all I have.
(1 Corinthians 8:5, 6) For even though there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” 6 there is actually to us one God, the Father, from whom all things are and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we through him.
The first commandment puts Jehovah first. (Exodus 20:3) "You must not have any other gods besides me." (Exodus 20:4) “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth." This commandment forbade idolatry in any shape or form as an open affront to Jehovah’s glory and Personage.
For the most part, the deities of the Greeks are depicted as being very immoral and as having human weaknesses.
The worshipful adoration that men direct toward their idol-gods actually goes “to demons, and not to God.” (1Co 10:20; Ps 106:36, 37) Jehovah God requires exclusive devotion. (Isa 42:8) The one who worships an idol-god denies the true God and therefore serves the interests of Jehovah’s chief Adversary, Satan, and his demons.
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1. the greek gods were gruesome and imachure-they strapped someone to a rock on a cliff and let crows pick his liver over and over again. Imachure because they lay with eachother and got drunk. They tried punishing the entire world because one guy made them mad, therefore, if they did exist-we would probably all be punished bad
2. they have no real logical origin- the gods' parent was supposedly Kronos-titan. If he was their dad, who was his dad and his and his, there is nothing about their begginings
3. there is no evidence that they existed, the greek gods had lots of things-why can't we find them. Hephstasus' inventions, Athena's weapons, Hera's hearths?