no religion is prohibited by the greek government, no matter how weird it is... the real problem is that these people actually claim ownership over ancient greek buildings that are a world legacy and noone is allowed to enter or touch most of them because they are on the verge of collapse... of course they are not a real continuation of the ancient greek religion, that died out 1000 years ago due to lack of followers...
Οι παππαδες πατριαρχηδες και λοιποι τεμπελχαναδες οπως και οι αλλοι τυποι που εργαζονται στο ελληνικο κρατος δεν θελουν ελληνιμο κρατος και ελληνικη θρησκεια θα δυσαρεστησουν τα αφεντικα τους.Το χρημα ειναι πολυ Άρη..
The Hellenists want to coexist with Christianity, but Christianity will NEVER want to co-exist with non-Christians; Christianity is a globalist religion, the core goal of their faith is to convert every possible person on the planet. Conversion is their mission, nothing else.
First of all, in greece there is seperation of church and state. Thus the state does not impose orthodoxy to these so called hellenists. Simply enouqh, greeks do not follow them. Parthenon and other ancient temples are closed fot the public for maintenance only
There’s lots of online groups and riding unions in the USA, i personally recommend Hellenion and Reddit and Facebook groups can be good for starting out and looking for community,
For those who ever think that any polytheist religion had died and replaced by Christianity or Islamism. You're all wrong cause even those two Monotheist religions was founded with Pagan roots, they're way to worship God(Allah) and Jesus was taken from Greek/Germanic Worships. And even this absorption by Abrahamic Religions, they couldn't stop Polytheist religions for existing in 2024, Heil Asatrú Vanatrú, Heil Hellenism, Heil Shintoism, Heil Taoism, Heil Hinduism and all the others Polytheists in these world.
I am a Hellenic polytheist and devotee to Lady Aphrodite and Lady Hekate, I wish to go to this site to worship, it pains me that there are no sites where i am from to worship the theoi. I am glad the Hellenic faith is seeing revival. May the Gods continue to enrich this faith and continue it's perseverance against idiocy and hypocrisy.
how sad these people need to think they're satanists. How unethical can a religion be to force itself and convert people forcibly . How unethical to make them feel guilt about their own indigenous culture and practices. Shame
Just one small glimpse of a way/question/topic to think about: Do you think you have free choice to choose what you want to choose? Than ask yourself this question: Why do you want to choose that? Can you choose the wish to choose what you wish? Is there really any free choice? In the end there is, but also there is not. You can't choose what will happen to you, you can't choose what will come your way, you can't choose what your feelings will be. But yes you can have influence on all of that, but always in anyway. You have a choice and you have not. That is the paradox. What is the truth?
These people can't even spell: At 6:33 an inscription says: "ΕΣΩ ΕΝΑΡΕΤΟΣ" instead of "ΕΣΟ ΕΝΑΡΕΤΟΣ", "inside good" instead of "be good". They should run back to the Orthodox Church and learn Greek properly.
Greek neopaganism has no relation to the ancient religion of Greece. It is a copy-paste version of whatever texts (some of which are modern) about some (not all) ancient gods. Some adherents literally worship the gods, some others think of the gods as abstract ideas, some others think of the gods as forces of nature. There is no coherence in their worship. The only thing that binds these people together is hatred for Christianity because of daddy issues. Everything you heard in this video about religious repression is ostensibly fake. Greeks have voted for an openly atheist Prime Minister in 2015 and they have cherished artists like Vangelis who was openly neopagan. Nobody needs to have the Church's OK for anything in Greece, do not let some people's hysteria get to you. There was a reason why Greeks REJECTED the ancient religion and that was because the true worship of the ancient gods was wearing ancient Greeks down. If you read ancient history you will see that one god would pit one city against the other. Ancient Greek history was not a bright period of peace of civilisation but dark centuries full of grit and blood, a constant civil war fed by the gods. All leading philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle had rejected the ancient religion in favor of a more deist approach which later paved the way for Christianity. Many Greeks were fed up with the Greek gods and were worshiping Persian, Egyptian and Minor Asian gods. Mithra, Ra, Isis, the Great Gods, as well as new religions such as the Pythagoreans and the Orphics were fast replacing the religion the people of the video claim to have revived. The Romans, who had the same religion that these people claim to be the "ethnic hellenic" one, destroyed Greece. In the 2nd c AD, Greece was a wasteland full of ruins, due to the gods these people worship, and the Greeks were on their way to lose their language and adapt Latin. Then came Christianity, a religion that took care of the poor and the destitute, freed the women and the slaves from the bondage of the ancient society, protected the children from sexual abuse which was rampant in ancient Greece, fed the hungry, took care of the infirm instead of tossing them down the precipice of Ceadas, and restituted the Greek language in all its glory. Remember... when Emperor Constantine was baptized a Christian, the people had ALREADY adopted the new religion in their vast majority, because they had had it with the tyranny of the old religion. So, worshipping the gods of the old is reviving the ancient chaos and rejecting 2,000 years of Christian Greek history, 2,000 years during which the Greek world found its home within the most powerful state of the time, the Greek-speaking, Greek-thinking, Christian Orthodox Byzantine Empire. It is rejecting their own family history and traditions. If only they studied the ancient Greek literature more thoroughly instead of cherry-picking what their spiritual leaders want them to, the eyes of the neopaganists would open and they would see how wrong they are.
You're a liar. Lamblichus, Porphyry, Plotinus etc, the most influential philosophers of their time also observed their tradition, praised the gods and practiced theurgy. Not only is Christianity a Jewish messianic cult, paganism has never been very dogmatic, it was a religion centred around observing traditions, festivals and ritual. It took until Thomas Aquinas's time to alleviate the brain drain that was Christian belief, that inhibited new knowledge that contradicted the bible, going to great lengths to invent a more rationalist interpretation of Christianity. Christianity has not been with us in Europe for that long, is dying and will continue to die, and Jesus worship will be known as an embarrassing and bizarre period of our history.
Hellenic people were most powerful people those once ruled the world. The strength of their rise was powered by GODs. But when people abandoned the Zeus , GODs abandoned them too.
I'm atheist, and I don't hide that. Watching this video made me tear up. I am so happy to see that people still worship the Greek gods and feel a true, deep connection to them. Hearing them talk about their connection to the gods is truly one of the most amazing things I have ever heard. To everyone who worships the gods, please do not be afraid of the idiocy of people like that bishop. The Greek gods are amazing and everyone should be free to practice religion.
We Religionaries were around in the middle ages and 1500s and 1800s and 1900s and today and far far into the Future unlike Cultianity and Pesslam. -Man is man and God is God -Theres more Than One God There's Many Yes The Many True Gods of Whom we can have Sacred Statues for. -The universe and mankind and animals were created the right way by The Real God(s) Jupiteris/Zeus and Saturnus/Kronos and Apollo and Mithras and Hera Made all and End all. Not the False Idol yahweh the Devil man made Fake and FALLSEEE "god". Christianity and islam like all Hebraism is the one true and onlllyyy IDOLATORSSSSS just them and them alone. -They EverMighties will all and choose any They desire and Want for Their Love and Wills -so on etc yes They EverMighties or Lords-Ladies-So Made all and End all. Comtrol all and Prove all and help all. Praise Father Zeus and The Other Lords-Ladies-So.
3:20 I find it rather funny that he makes fun of the Hellenists for wearing 'costumes' as he himself is wearing vestments. Like bro you don't 'look' much more 'normal' lmao.
Also ironic he’s calling there beliefs fairy tales like you can’t talk about fantasies when you worship a zombie that turned water into wine and walked on water
No offense but when I watched this video I was given the idea that though one or two people might truly believe in it the majority is there to excuse undesired behaviour and not for any spiritual reason. I'm getting the idea that they are simply using the hellenic religion of old only in name.
Polytheism has somehow fascinated me way more than my uncomfortable surroundings with monotheistic people that I am use to in my life. There was this one person in my program trying to correct me that I might go to hell, if I refuse to accept Jesus as this so-claimed “One True God”, but I didn’t give a darn of what she thought, besides her cross was just Chinese character for ten, which I believe this Jesus guy was influenced by to set as a reminder for the Jews not to forget their sacred commandments that were given from Mt. Sinai, but one of those crazy Romans thought of it as symbol of hope and salvation, which I think was very warped idea they had in mind to make it feel like it’s there one true religion which is just ridiculous. I am just kind of glad that there is still polytheism in Greece and I hope it will flourish to majority soon. 😊
"Those who fear life often worship the imaginary gods of others, while those who love life tend to imagine." We are Hellenes, NOT Greeks! According to the UN, the country is called Hellas, our passports indicate 'Hellenic Republic.' Consulates around the world also acknowledge the Hellenic Republic. We address each other as Hellinas and Hellinida. The 'Greekness' is emphasized by the Greek Orthodox Church because otherwise, it will reveal the truth about how the Greek Orthodox Church collaborated with the Turks during the Ottoman Empire to suppress the Hellenic Spirit. This Christian collaboration aimed to destroy Hellenism and its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire, which sought to spread Christianity at the expense of Hellenism."
Beautiful let them live and worship in their ancient structures!! Makes me extremely angry and gives Christianity a bad name. My issue as a Christian is this- not allowing others to worship who or what they want
The entire purpose of your religion or cult was to destroy us and anything is not of your cult of Damnation. Your kindness and open-mindedness and I have to see the light is you not the belief that you are in.
The orthodox priests statements show his cognitive dissonance and stupidity! monotheism, and orthodoxy historically speaking, whether it was christian or muslim, is responsible for the complete backwardness of human civilization in its suppression of any competing ideology .
One of the gods I follow is Dionysus, he did not go through hell in India for people to hide their beliefs. For those who don't know, Dionysus is a son of Zeus. He was a demigod and the challenge he had to prove himself was to go round India and turn them into Hellenists. Which then caused so much chaos in his home town. Please look up what happened. It's amazing. We should be proud of our beliefs. No matter what.
