If you're going to Mount Olympus, be sure to wear some laurels in your hair
Followers of The Return of the Hellenes, who worship the ancient gods of Greece, consider Greece to be a country under Christian occupation
. This, perhaps understandably, does not go down too well with the Greek Orthodox Church:
In 2007, an official of the Orthodox Church described them as, "a handful of miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion".
Matthew Brunwasser, Public Radio International, via BBC News
Obviously the Greek Orthodox Church doesn't adhere too strictly to the values of tolerance and understanding but, then again, that seems to be true for most religions.
As a one-time admirer of Greek mythology I think it's rather sweet, but it somewhat misses the point. Ancient religions developed in part because of a less sophisticated understanding of our world and the influences upon it. They cannot be as relevant today as they once were; although that same line of reasoning might well apply, at least in some respects, to other more mainstream religions today.
But most of all, the ancient Greeks would slaughter a bull at the temple in the name of the gods. Are these same gods meant to be easily appeased with flowers, fruit, milk and honey
? I don't think so!