Sorry, didn't mean to muddy the waters. I guess the analogy to greek gods only works if you don't think of them as "gods" (with all that God-ness implies) but more as "powerful immortals". I don't think the ancient greeks's concept of god was much like ours, and maybe had more in common with the Japanese Shinto "gods", requiring respect rather than worship. This is just how I think of them; I don't have any training or background in the subject to back me up. This sort of goes off on a tangent to the original post, anyway, so I think I'll just quit here.
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Date: 12 May 2007 03:26 pm (UTC)This is just how I think of them; I don't have any training or background in the subject to back me up.
This sort of goes off on a tangent to the original post, anyway, so I think I'll just quit here.